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vallejo game color
Posted by dr.bones on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:29 PM

hello all. wuz wundering how does vallejo game color paints spray? which thinner is usable? 

i normally use rubbing alcohol 96%, in airbrush at a 50% ratio.

haven't tried vallejo in my airbrush yet. just want to know

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Posted by dr.bones on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:29 PM

used alcohol once and turned into gummy and gooey paint

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Posted by mustang1989 on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:48 PM

No joke there. No alcohol in Vallejo. You aint gonna like the result! I use acrylic paint thinner from MM and have had no problems at all.

                   

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Posted by Dodger57 on Thursday, December 13, 2012 4:39 AM

Alcohol is a no no with Vallejo - as has been mentioned. I use, and have gotten good results, either Vallejo thinner or liquitex airbrush medium. I've heard that both Testors and Tamiya thinners also work well. I've also heard that Future works well as a thinner for these paints. And last but not least you can try some distilled water.

And your English is fine. :)

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Posted by ghostpressbed on Thursday, December 13, 2012 8:53 AM

Alcohol will turn Vallejo paint into a mess. I wouldn't use Future as a thinner as it's also used as a varnish and will gloss everything up unless you also start adding Tamiya's Flat Base. Water works pretty okay. Vallejo and Tamiya both have acrylic paint thinners.

The best product I've seen is Windex. I just started using it last week and it works brilliantly. en.wikipedia.org/.../Windex

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Posted by dr.bones on Monday, January 28, 2013 8:05 PM

thanks all 4 the tips, i used windex and the results were good, sorry about responding so late

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Posted by dr.bones on Friday, March 15, 2013 2:45 PM

yep tried windex and it diluted vallejo excellently,  also sealed it off with future polish and a matt  laquer spray @ the end, seems ok

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