I prefer the cheap walmart paints as well. Apple barn, delta and so forth. I've used just about every paint there is on my poppers and the water based acrylics are my favorite for a few reasons. The main one is that I like to either airbrush or hand paint details after the color coat and when you apply the sally hansen or most other clear coats, the enamels tend to run, water base won't. My usual routine is a base coat of artists gesso, two dips in my color of choice, then the details, (eyes, scales etc) then the top coat. I have to admit though, I much prefer cork and carving balsa to foam. LOL don't know why. Below is a link to a page of my poppers if you'd like to see the results I get from my methods. Hope this helps. [url=http://home.earthlink.net/~slusk/mypoppers/id1.html:0b974]http://home.earthlink.net/~slusk/mypoppers/id1.html[/url:0b974]