Paints

I use a variety of craft acrylic paints for the miniatures, most of them are just fine, and there's little to be said about them.


Recently, when I was ordering miniatures from a site, I decided, more on a whim than anything else, to try to order some additional paints, wanting a flat red and a flat bluish color.    I got such colors in the "Tamiya" brand (a Japanese model company).   They come in largish (for model paint) bottles with screw top lids.    I really like the colors, in fact, but there's one weird feature.   They smell just terrible.    I have to gag a bit when I open the bottles each time.   I don't know what they put in the paint but it just reeks.