Tamiya acrylics help!

yea, i think their thinner is on recall due to harsh fumes. tamiya is working on it. 

gunze thinner works well with tamiya acrylics. good thing i stocked up on tamiya thinner. 

i haven't had any problems spraying their acrylics with my harbor freight and paasche AB.

Your problems are most likely caused by one of, or a combination of the following:

• Air pressure too high - try somewhere in the region of 12-15 PSI.  20-25 PSI is way too high.
• Insufficient thinning - Tamiya likes to be airbrushed very thin, maybe thinner than you're used to with other paints. With the thinner you're using now, try 2 parts thinner to one part paint.
• Airbrushing from too great a distance, causing the paint to dry before it hits the surface you're painting, causing a dusty/gritty finish. My personal preference is to airbrush within 4 inches or so from the subject, perhaps 6 inches maximum.

As Phill-H said!

I had similar problems with Tamyia, so much so I switched to Vallejo, but I ran out of O/D over a bank holiday weekend!

I used Medeas' Airbrush Cleaner as thinner & Lovely-Jubbley! , none of the above finish problems!

(Chav expression, Posh eqv. Top hole, what?)

I've been using Tamiya acrylics for almost 2 years and I'm happy with the results. I originally started with the thinner 'till I found out that 70% rubbing alcohol does the same job for 7x less $$. There is no formula for tinning, some colors might require more thinner than others. I stick to the milk consistency rule with favorable results. As another poster mentioned, I guess you're spraying from afar and the paint is getting dry before reaching your subject.

I thin Tamiya paint with regular laquer thinner and it sprays beautiful.

Bill

i agree....try using the alcohol without the retarder...could also be a reaction to that...I ve used Tamiyas for years and have had good results...even used good ol h2o...cheap...always availabe...got hard water...by a gallon jug of distilled...

good luck

C

i've been told it can be thinned with some water. im not so sure because i haven't tryed it. 

and yea, spray at a lower pressure. i spray at 12 lowest and 15 highest with great results. 

I use Tamiya Acrylics also (Testors Acrylics too) and I use 91% Alcohol for thinning on both...nothing else.

Make sure you aren't too far away, from the object you're airbrushing, or it does tend to get that "dusty" effect. I normally use between 15-25 PSI, depending on overall spray or detail spray.

Which compressor are you using, BTW?

I think I have solved my problems with Tamiya acrylics..

1. I realized i wasn't thinning them enough, I thinned them about 2:1 thinner to paint, which greatly improved everything.

2. My psi needed a little tweeking aswell, Phil had suggested between 12-15, I tried that and it just didn't work for me, so i settled on about 17-18 psi.

3. I was also probably holding the brush a bit far from the piece i was working on, i moved in a couple inches, and am training myself to hold it about 4 inches away minimum.

Luckily all of my mistakes were made on scrap models or scrap plastic, so nothing happened on the piece I was currently working on. Thank you for all the help! I now understand why people give so much praise to these paints, if you do everything right with them, they do wonders.

the trick is to never spray from a far distance because acrylics will dry and cause it to dry before its on the painted surface. tamiya doesn't need to be thinned a lot. 

has anyone tried thinning with testors/model master acrylic thinner?

randypandy831

has anyone tried thinning with testors/model master acrylic thinner?

I have, by accident / distraction. Nothing either positive or negative happened. It worked as usual. Also by distraction, thinned Model Master Acryl with their AB cleaner. That one I didn't want to risk the model it was going to be used on and threw it away. I just can't start mixing paints when the %$#@& phone starts ringing.

thanks for the replies! 

i bought the last two bottles at the LHS and went to see if he restocked but hasn't. guess online is the way i gotta go.