Polly Scale and Airbrushing?

JSCHLECHTY: Poly S dries real fast when I spray PolyS I thin with MM acrylic thinner and 3 to 5 drops of Liquuitex slo-dri blending medium. Your probluem is the alchohol is evaporating to fast the paint is hitting your model dry. The Liquitex will slow down the drying time so the paint will hit your model wet it will also keep the paint from drying in your AB. the liquitex will also help acrylic paint to slide through your AB a lot eazier. You can get Liquitex at Michels Craft Stores or a good art supply store hope this helps you          ACESES5                                       LUNCH TIME

I personally use Liquitex Airbrush Medium.  It contains the slow-dry retarder as well as acrylic resin carrier and a flow aid (reduces surface tension).  I've never had any luck at all spraying any MM acrylic without liberally thinning it with this stuff, usually around 50%.  

Thanks guys!  Sounds like I need to picl up some Liquitex - have to check at the local Michaels.  Thanks again!

JS

I just got back from Michaels.  They had the Liquitex Slow-Dri medium, but not the airbrush medium.  I'll be looking forward to next time I use the Polly Scale paint to give this a try and see if it cures the problem.

Thanks again!

JS

I use Polly Scale a lot and the only disadvantage it has is indeed getting it out of the A/B. I've looked for liquitex over here where I live, but no luck. But Golden Airbrush Medium does about the same. I use 50% Polly Scale and 50% Golden with a few drops of Createx Retarder. Pressure goes down to .6 bar with small needle and I handle it rather well like that, but not enough for close up detail painting as i have to open the nozzle too much...

Good luck and do report back on the experience with Liquitex.

Cheers

stefaan

if you like Polly Scale pick it up while you can because it is going away. Most of the common colors here in my neck of the woods have  already been bought up.

Thad

I've heard that, but it still seems to be fairly well stocked at both the LHS here in Dallas.  Guess I'll buy up all the Reefer White and Grimy Black I can get my hands on, as those colors are just key to so many things.

I should have noted above that Golden and Liquitex are competitors and virtually identical.  One caveat: the Golden Retarder is a gel, and that isn't really apparent from the bottle.  You can use it with airbrush paints, but you have to really stir it in.  The Liquitex slo-dri stuff should work well, but don't thin it too much with it as it doesn't have any clear acryl in the carrier to help adhesion.  If you can find the airbrush medium you can thin it way down more with that stuff, but I've only found it here in Dallas at craft paint supply stores, not Michaels.  

Others have also had great success thinning with straight future.  You might give that a try... if I hadn't had such good success with the airbrush medium first that would have been my next stop.

I'm here in Dallas to what shops do you go to?

Thad

MAL Hobbyshop in Irving has a good selection of Floquil, Vallejo, and Humbrol, though is stock tends to fluctuate a lot.  MAL = Model Aircraft Laboratory, though a good third of his small but tightly packed shop is railroad goodies.  He also has a very nice aircraft reference library and huge stash of magazines, and also carries a fair number of kits, including a lot of stuff from Revell Germany.  

It's also the only place I've seen Mr Surfacer on the shelf.  Hopefully he's restocked since I bought the three he had a couple of months ago.  :-)