Mr. Color Thinner for thinning acrylics?

Hey Mike,

Maybe if I get chance to fire up the compressor this coming weekend, I'll give it a shot.  I should have plenty of scrap styrene to test it out on.

-Fred

Hi Fred,

I use Mr color thinner with both Gunze aqueous and Tamiya acrylics, I've not had any problems. Have a little go on some scrap plastic and see what you think, I'm no expert but as I said I've not had a single problem. Your right you do get a mighty clean airbrush

Cheers...

Thanks for the heads up guys.  I'll stick with Tamiya's thinner - no point in messing with a good thing.

Though, MCT does make for one heck of a paint remover.  I don't consider my AB truly clean unless I've given the guts a good cleaning with some MCT on a q-tip.

-Fred

IIRC, Mr. Color is not an acrylic paint, and its thinner is essentially lacquer thinner, which usually contains some alcohol—along with some much stronger solvents that may well play havoc with acrylics.

For Tamiya, stick with their thinner or 90+% isopropyl alcohol plus a little retarder.

Hi Fred,

I've heard of people using lacquer thinners (which Mr Color thinner is) with Tamiya acrylics, but I've not tried it myself, Frankly, I'm a bit sceptical and don't think it's really necessary.

The "Levelling thinner" is essentially a thinner for the Mr Color lacquers with an amount of retarder added. I'm not sure if this will make much of a difference to Tamiya acrylic paints.