Acrylic Paint Warning

[Ron Tamburrini]

Michael back in the late sixty's I was knocking out abstract paintings in acrylics to sell to the tourists at inflated prices Ohoo Hippy Days, Ohoo Hippy Days . I can assure you the acrylics used then where a much different paint from what is on the market now , it was almost a plastic that you could peel off . I have every confident's in todays acrylics , and remember oils paints and oil paint based paints like Humbrol yellow with age so you got to expect some changes on your painted figures unless you keep them in an air sealed unit and out of natural daylight .
chippy

I think oils improve with age and can take handling also to a degree , all plastic degrades under uv light , just look at the first generation upvc windows going grey , next stage is the breakup of the plastic , which I am beginning to see on facia and soffit boards .
Once covered a pallet of bricks with 1000 gauge polythene , left for a year in my back garden and awoke one day to find the poly in thousands of fragments UV monster hit