2oz. acrylic craft paints

[Digger1]

Okay, so what do you have to do to thin this stuff? Right now, it's 70% alcohol, 30% paint and it's still yogurt thick.

[USSARCADIA]

I did a test a few months ago using Apple Barrel brand and Future as a thinner. It actually ran quite well throught the airbrush. I didn't try brushing with the mix but you could toy with it.

[Thomas E. Johnson]

I find an 80% future 20% paint mix using those brands gives awesome results.

[irishtrek]

The Americana brand is the thickest I ever tried and no if you ask someone at the craft store they would probably tell you to make it about the consistancy of milk.

[USSARCADIA]

I've found Delta brand to be the thickest, Apple Barrel the thinnnest. The consistency of milk is a good rule for thinning any paint for airbrushing. The important thing here is to test on a scrap piece of plastic or old model. Its cheap enough to do this, not like Tamiya, Gunze, etc.

[CaptainHawk1]

Y'know it never even occured to me to use Future as a thinner.

-Shawn

[Lt. Z0mBe]

Mike,

Thin with Future. Only use Apple Barrel as the other stuff's pigment is too large. Like most acrylics, strain through pantyhose if you want.

I have great results with the stuff and am literally using it as I write this. Just don't go overboard with the Future and get it too thin.

Hope this helps.

Kenny

EDIT: Here's a thread where we discuss this:

http://www.starshipmodeler.net/cgi-bin/ ... hp?t=37020

[Thomas E. Johnson]

Mike,

Thin with Future. Only use Apple Barrel as the other stuff's pigment is too large. Like most acrylics, strain through pantyhose if you want.

I use Delta Cerema-Coat paints, Americana, American Traditions, Liqitex, all thinned with future and have never had a problem.

[Lt. Z0mBe]

Mike,

Thin with Future. Only use Apple Barrel as the other stuff's pigment is too large. Like most acrylics, strain through pantyhose if you want.

I use Delta Cerema-Coat paints, Americana, American Traditions, Liqitex, all thinned with future and have never had a problem.

In my experiments with DC versus Apple Barrel shot through a Paasche VL, the DC pigments clumped very badly around the fine and heavy flow needle/nozzle combinations. It could have been my airbrush, though.

Kenny

[Thomas E. Johnson]

Mike,

Thin with Future. Only use Apple Barrel as the other stuff's pigment is too large. Like most acrylics, strain through pantyhose if you want.

I use Delta Cerema-Coat paints, Americana, American Traditions, Liqitex, all thinned with future and have never had a problem.

In my experiments with DC versus Apple Barrel shot through a Paasche VL, the DC pigments clumped very badly around the fine and heavy flow needle/nozzle combinations. It could have been my airbrush, though.

Kenny

I use an Aztec 7888 with the white and black Acrylic nozzels, and it always works fine. I've heard of others spraying these paints with external mix airbrushes also.