>>7277360I think he's referring to the acrylic. Theres three completely different types of Tamiya paint (acrylic, enamel, lacquer). The best by far for gunpla is their range of lacquers, they can be thinned with any generic lacquer thinner from a hardware store or their own lacquer thinner (which is way more expensive & not any better), they airbrush beautifully (easily as good as mr color) have nice strong pigments, the surface levels well without resorting to levelling thinner (but they work with that too) and if you give them 24 hours they cure extremely hard. The only downside to them is they dont have the biggest range of colours available yet (the line only started a year ago) theres 60 colors total so far, they have a good range of military colors for scale stuff as well as all the basics with more appearing every month or 2.
The other thing about them is you can hand paint with them well, they arent anywhere near as harmful as they are atomized from an airbrush but you still need a respirator or dust mask when handbrushing them. The other anon mentioned vallejo, reaper & P3 which are all what i would agree are the best handbrushing paints but none of their metallics evn come close to the tamiya lacquer metallics hand brushed for metal finishes on small details.