What We Call Things

Turbo Dork paints are water-based acrylic hobby paints that are fast-drying, water-soluble when wet, and water-resistant when dry. However our paints are special in a few other unique ways. Read below to find out about those special properties and why we call certain paint lines what we do!!!

TurboShift Paints

TurboShift paints are made with tiny glass-like flakes that work like millions of small prisms within the paint. Depending on how the flakes are made, different colors are refracted or reflected in the light. In layman's terms, this means that the paint changes color depending on what light you are viewing it under, and what angle you are holding it to that light. All the TurboShift paints except Mother Lode need to be used over a BLACK basecoat for the true shift to appear.

ZeniShift Paints

ZeniShift paints will shift differently over different base colors. They appear almost as if they were two metallic paints in one bottle, with one color or the other dominating depending on what color basecoat they are sitting over. In the bottle, they look like one of the colors that they flip between. A heavy zenithal basecoat works well with these paints.

Metallic Paints

Metallic paints contain pigments and small mica flakes that create a sparkling effect on the paint surface making it look like metal. Our single color Metallic paints look most vivid when used over a similarly colored basecoat. There is info on the side of the bottle on the best-colored basecoat, e.g., Pucker over yellow, People Eater looks best over a purple basecoat, that sort of thing.