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tankerbuilder

Hey, DOOGS , got a question for you. What kind of generic thinner can you use for TAMIYA and MR COLOR? I am having to change paints and this is giving me fits. I cannot airbrush in the winter so I have to hand paint.I just don,t really like the stuff. All my modeling career(yup CAREER!) I have used either HUMBROL--GONE! or TESTORS-MODELMASTER paints. Now my biggest client wants aAll his parts painted with either of the two I mentioned above because he used TAMIYA on the HULL amd MR.COLOR on the deckhouses.This ship is about seven feet long! I have a lot of his parts to go yet and that,s what he wants the pieces painted in. I can,t seem to remember to use to thin TAMIYA ,what do you use ?and likewise for MR.COLOR ----HELP!!!! ----   tankerbuilder

Hey tankerbuilder - I'm certainly no expert, but my favorite thinner for both Tamiya and Mr. Color would have to be Gunze's Mr. Leveling Thinner. The stuff is fantastic and helps quite a bit with tip dry on the Tamiya. 

I've only used Mr. Color once so far - Orange Yellow for my yellow-wing Wildcats - and it worked beautifully. I'm planning on using Mr. Color for the 109E-7 I'm building at the moment, so I should be able to report back in I don't know, two or so weeks how non-yellow colors perform.

As for handbrushing...for a seven-foot ship!?!? 

The only thing I brush paint with Tamiya is the occasional navigation light. As fantastic as it is through an airbrush, it sucks for brush painting. It can be made to work, but it's tedious and I wouldn't recommend it for broad coverage like that.

Mr. Color I would imagine probably paints better, but I have to admit I haven't tried brushing it.

Hey, DOOGS , got a question for you. What kind of generic thinner can you use for TAMIYA and MR COLOR? I am having to change paints and this is giving me fits. I cannot airbrush in the winter so I have to hand paint.I just don,t really like the stuff. All my modeling career(yup CAREER!) I have used either HUMBROL--GONE! or TESTORS-MODELMASTER paints. Now my biggest client wants aAll his parts painted with either of the two I mentioned above because he used TAMIYA on the HULL amd MR.COLOR on the deckhouses.This ship is about seven feet long! I have a lot of his parts to go yet and that,s what he wants the pieces painted in. I can,t seem to remember to use to thin TAMIYA ,what do you use ?and likewise for MR.COLOR ----HELP!!!! ----   tankerbuilder

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