HIKARI : paints for models and miniatures

Hikari means light in Japanese. All the colors that reach our eyes are made of light !

Hikari is a specialized art line of professional quality airbrush paints. Thanks to their versatile formula, Hikari model paints can be used with both airbrush and artist's brush.

In addition to its exceptional color vibrancy and dry film strength and adhesion, the best innovation of Hikari paints is its versatility, as its fluid yet full-coverage textures make it ready to use for all model painting techniques.

Hikari is the latest creation of the atypical manufacturer Stardust®, specialist in effect paints for professionals in the fields of automotive, design and architecture.
The Hikari range is the achievement of several years of work and collaboration with numerous figurative artists, in the fields of miniatures, models and radio-controlled machines.

The HIKARI color chart and matching table

HIKARI paints for miniatures and scale models offer a very wide range of more than 200 color codes, declined in several families of technical and artistic paints, applicable to the various disciplines of model making, which are the miniatures, the mock up, the radio-controlled machines and the Sofubi.

To help you find your way or find specific colors, existing and listed under different codes internal to each brand or manufacturer of paint, the huge range Hikari has been listed on the table of correspondence to download free on our pages.

Paint for model making : the different series of HIKARI

This « Hobby » range, abundant with 200 color codes, is dedicated to the world of creative hobbies :
The Hikari project is to offer model artists or figurines, the most beautiful colors ready to paint.

« Hikari Modeling » is available in different ranges of colors and characteristics : these colors are grouped into 5 main groups. As for the art colors, they are organized into 8 color families.

« Hikari Model » series for model making is dedicated to scale models; it is made up of a range of technical and specific colors, such as the military colors of the past, the specific color codes of RAL or FS (Federal Standard) most used by model makers.

« Model » series extends to figurinism and miniaturism : figurine paint is honored with a splendid collection of 8 families each containing 8 artistic colors. These compositions of colors are designed to reproduce reality and imitate the natural tones of armor, leather, bones, flesh ... with their nuances of shadows or reflections. In addition to these series, a series of washes, aging effects or textures of the range « HIKARI FX ».

« Hikari RC » series for RC model making specializes in the field of radio-controlled machines, for the painting of mini motorized machines. In this field, we use paints applied with an airbrush or a spray gun often from the inside of a transparent shell. These paints must adhere to LEXAN or POLYCARBONATE, be very flexible and resistant to gasoline. The SOFUBI

« HIKARI Toys » Sofubi series specializes in the paint of PVC toys, coming from the Japanese imaginary universe, with its heroes, monsters and other robots. They are glossy, solvent-based paints, applicable with a brush or airbrush, which are very resistant and dry quickly.

Model paints

The HIKARI Model range consists of water-based acrylic paints, but also some solvent-based or alcohol-based paints, specially designed for the painting of models, military vehicles, models, boats, airplanes, racing cars and motorcycles, of all types.
Released in 2021, the HIKARI range benefits from all the best innovations in terms of chemical formulation of paints.
In the professional MODEL range dedicated to model making and scale models, most of the military and historical color codes are available in airbrush compatible versions, offering excellent adhesion on plastics, wood, metals, Lexan.

Wargame paints

For tabletop games or war games, Wargame paints, grouped in the very copious Hikari realistic color chart, allow the artist to give life to their reference universe, by imitating reality or by creating imaginary and fantastic worlds, period or futuristic. Special effects, textures or aging effects allow even more possibilities in the customization and imitation of the reality of the scenery to scale (Diorama) and figurines.

Aids for painting model making

To assist the artist who paints a miniature, a model or an RC machine, painting aids for model making are essential : these are surface primers, thinners, clearcoats and other specialties, such as « flow » improvers, which facilitate the use of paint or provide special functions (pigments, binders).

Special effects for model making

Classified separately from artistic colors and common products, Hikari presents special effects for model making, which offer not only products for texture effects and aging patinas, but also new and exciting possibilities in terms of visual effects, such as optical effects of color change, fluorescence, phosphorescence.

Hikari kits for model making

We have made a series of color compositions to recreate the different atmospheres and universes of the world of miniaturism or model making with the Hikari kits for model making.
These are sets of tones dedicated to decorative achievements, sets of primary single-pigment colors or complete series of effects such as washes or Chameleon. Discover them and take advantage of these economical offers.

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