airbrush paints help?

[mrawl]

Originally Posted by klutz_100

Before you sell your soul to Tamiya and their acrylic paints, you should also try Vallejo Air series if you can get them...

Klutzy, are you able to airbrush the Model Air without thinning? I was expecting to, but found I needed to thin it. It's not really a-b ready imho. Yes, this is Air, not Color. Maybe I got a bad lot, but I doubt it, or maybe I need to use a larger nozzle (I use .3mm, I suppose I should move up to .5) Thoughts?

[klutz_100]

Originally Posted by mrawl

Klutzy, are you able to airbrush the Model Air without thinning? I was expecting to, but found I needed to thin it. It's not really a-b ready imho. Yes, this is Air, not Color. Maybe I got a bad lot, but I doubt it, or maybe I need to use a larger nozzle (I use .3mm, I suppose I should move up to .5) Thoughts?

Mark,

I use it in both my 0,35mm and 0,5mm airbrushes with no problem.

However, I always add 1-3 drops of the Vallejo thinner depending on how much paint I am using in the cup.
Vallejo paints hate Tamiya thinner and with such economical useage on the Vallejo thinner, I simply don't use anything else.

HTH

PS The is no such thing as an "airbrush ready" paint IMHO. It never hurts to add thineers

[Tervo]

Originally Posted by klutz_100

Mark,

I use it in both my 0,35mm and 0,5mm airbrushes with no problem.

However, I always add 1-3 drops of the Vallejo thinner depending on how much paint I am using in the cup.
Vallejo paints hate Tamiya thinner and with such economical useage on the Vallejo thinner, I simply don't use anything else.

Me too! Except my brushes are 0,2 and 0,5mm, and I use distilled water as thinner. Vallejo Air seems to spray easier from a decent airbrush, I had some serious problems with Aztec A470, those Sparmaxes work like a charm.
I also use Lifecolor acrylics, they seem to be a bit easier to handle than Vallejos, wish they had the same kind of bottle as Vallejo.

[ChillyB1]

So, Geckoman, are you experimenting with your airbrush? I'm so happy with mine that I've been using it almost every day just to see what I can do with it. And I took MPWR's suggestion and started using 4x6 index cards to test the paint. An excellent idea and it gave me a chance to use the several hundred of those index cards I had sitting around.