Most often, when I’m painting a model I use my sample pack of Rosco supersaturated paints.  For somewhere around $50, I ordered this package that contains one ounce of every color they make in Rosco Super Sat.  It's exactly the same as the scenic paint, just in little containers.

Pros

Getting used to using the same product repeatedly
When I was in grad school I found myself needing to paint a lot of translucent scenic effects.  As a result, I found myself most often painting scenery with Rosco Super Sats.  If I had found myself most often using the Off-Broadway, or another kind of paint that came in a sampler pack, I probably would have purchased that sampler instead.  I have been very happy with my choice of this particular sampler for a number of other reasons too.

Getting used to using the same techniques
I spent many classes learning how to render using water colors.  It turns out that Rosco Super Sat is the scenic paint that works most like water colors, so applying those painting techniques to both my model and scenic painting has been quite valuable when using this paint.  These techniques make creating illusions of depth quite easy, which is nice when painting model pieces of backdrops, woodgrained floors, marbling effects and more.

Communicating more effectively with your scenic artist
I have found that when I am not painting the scenery I designed, it is very helpful to the charge artist when I can say, “I painted this model piece with Rosco Super Sat colors: blah, blah, blah,” and give them a very detailed list.  If they seem lost I can tell them the technique I used to paint the model piece and details of my process.  While they may not order super sats at all, and they may use techniques more appropriate for large scale painting, it often helps communication drastically.  It gives less experienced scenic artists a really good base to start on.  More experienced scenic artists have probably used this paint a lot, so they have a mental understanding of the hues used and are able to translate that into a paint order for their preferred paint brand and composition. 

Using quality pigment
The pigment in Rosco Super Sat is more pure than in a lot of paint, so if you like to mix your own colors from primaries, you will have more luck with this than with many others.  For example, I like to mix a lot of my own browns for models, because I use a lot of brown, so I like to vary it.  With the $2 watercolor set or a cheap acrylic set, you will find that when you mix colors they will tend to become grey or pastelly or muddy.  That’s because the pigment is not pure or they’ve added white.  To get a more pure pigment, in general, you are going to pay more. 

Cons

Seeing the layer below
Supersats are by nature transluscent,  (in other words, you can see through them) so painting over an existing piece with them, or correcting mistakes is not so possible. 

Life span
Mixing any sort of water into the little containers, even just from dipping your brush in, will cause your paint to become moldy.  If you aren’t careful, you may find your paint rotting before you use it all, and we’re all starving artists here, so you know that you don’t want to waste paint.  For that reason something that squeezes out of a tube is sometimes more effective.  

Expense
By giving your scenic artist a list of what you used, they may feel locked in to buying this paint, which is one of the more expensive scenic paints out there.  This may cause you to get in trouble for going over budget.

Conclusions 

If I had been in the habit of using Artist's Choice regularly, I probably would have ordered that and been just as happy.  The point is, I enjoy using this product on the model, mostly because it's what I use most often in the rest of my life.  They are quality paints, and they produce a quality product. 

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