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Lacquer thinner used to thin Tamiya acrylics?

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  • Member since
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  • From: Brookfield, CT
Lacquer thinner used to thin Tamiya acrylics?
Posted by Capnjohn on Friday, March 20, 2009 9:27 AM
If I thin Tamiya acrylics with their lacquer thinner must I then clean the airbrush with lacquer thinner?
  • Member since
    January 2003
  • From: Peoples Socialist Democratic Republic of Illinois
Posted by Triarius on Friday, March 20, 2009 9:37 AM

You shouldn't be using lacquer thinner to reduce Tamiya acrylics in the first place. Use 90% isopropyl. Clean the model surface before you paint. Then cleaning your airbrush with Windex (ammonia type) or just ammonia and water will be a breeze.

Tamiya acrylics do not have poor adhesion. I used them to apply camouflage to my hunting bow five years ago. It's still there, with no apparent wear in spite of brush, brambles, dirt, rain, and sunlight.

Ross Martinek A little strangeness, now and then, is a good thing… Wink

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    February 2003
  • From: Southern California, USA
Posted by ABARNE on Friday, March 20, 2009 1:46 PM

Sign - Ditto [#ditto]

If ever you find your airbrush having some cured acrylic paint on or in it that will not come off with windex or ammonia, lacquer thinner will take it off.  Don't thin with it, but for a last-resort cleaner, it's a great solvent cleaning cured acrylics just as easily as it does enamels.

Andy

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