Indeed those card models are stout, glued with ordinary Elmer's Glue All. Really surprised me as I feared they'd be more suseptible to damage when I started, but the geometeric folds and curves give the card stock much greater strenght.
The paints I used were by "Plaid", and I got them at Wal-Mart for about 47 cents each. Just a few dollars and I had bought one of each color on the rack! Black and white go fast for me, so I bought the bigger bottles of that. A pic of the brand I bought is below, incase you see them at the store.
I can't say how these stand up to more expensive paints, I've never used anything else on models (except Testors bottled enamels... arg!). Back when I built more models I wanted to try the Tamiya acrylics, but never found any where I shopped, and never went to the trouble to mail order.
One thing I found, thoes craft paints don't seem to do well when "picture" painting. Those $5 Liquitex tubes have been better for that, but I only bought a black and white tube of that to experiment on some canvas paper.
