I always thin my paints with rubbing alcohol. The browns and yellows
of vallejo paints seem to come out stringy, but the rest of the paints are fine.
I also use GW sometimes and more often RMS. I've thinned with airbrush thinner
and water (separately) and it comes out pretty awful. I like how it dries
pretty much on contact with the model. The other products just sat there so I
couldn't spray more right away. I use my airbrush right now mostly for
basecoating.


----- Original Message ----
From: Gurth <gurth@...>
To: mini-painter@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 3:51:18 AM
Subject: Re: [mini-painter] Re: Airbrushing


According to Judith Northwood, on 7-8-08 04:53 the word on the street was...

> NEVER mix alcohol and acrylics. Grunge of a nasty sort results

Depends on the kind of alcohol and the brand of paint, in my experience.
Tamiya is easy to thin with both isopropanol (windscreen wiper fluid)
and methanol, but if you use the latter it may dissolve dried acrylic
paint underneath, so it's not always a good idea.

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