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airbrushing with white paint
Posted by waynec on Friday, March 15, 2013 4:38 PM
is there something different about white paint? had a good session last night airbrushing with tamiya acrylics dark green and mma dark brown this morning. switched to paint a missile and both mma and tamiya went south. both clogged the sirbrush in 2 seconds. cleaned everything, switched to mma armor sand for SAM-2 base and it was ok.

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Posted by eatthis on Friday, March 15, 2013 4:57 PM

iv not found a white that likes the airbrush yet

 

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Posted by Nathan T on Friday, March 15, 2013 7:48 PM

I've had no troubles with white paint, that being Gunze. Tamiya seems fine too, but I have had their white thicken up and go bad quickly in the bottle, causing me to chuck it, because extra thinning didn't help it. I don't touch enamel paints so can't comment on those.

 

 

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Posted by Biff4204 on Friday, March 15, 2013 9:16 PM

I've had very good luck using Scalecoat II white.  It goes on smoothly, dries with a semi-gloss sheen for decaling and never has yellowed

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Posted by OldNoob on Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:05 AM

Golden makes a airbrush medium that has a milky appearance it might be good for thinning acrylic whites. It also has flow enhancers to prevent  clogging.  It can be found at A.C Moore or online.

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Posted by Shawker on Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:15 PM

For white paint I use the cheap stuff from AC Moore apple something as you said it goes bad too quick to spend money on a color I don't use much, but when I do I just go buy a new bottle for 50 cents.

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Posted by Bick on Friday, March 22, 2013 7:43 AM

OldNoob

Golden makes a airbrush medium that has a milky appearance it might be good for thinning acrylic whites. It also has flow enhancers to prevent  clogging.  It can be found at A.C Moore or online

Ditto for me. I use craft acrylics and, as Shawker posted, use AppleBarrel or FolkArt white thinned with Golden airbrush medium (or, some times with Future) and it airbrushes fine. Haven't tried airbrush medium with Tamiya or other acrylics though. YMMV

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Posted by DiscoStu on Friday, March 22, 2013 9:22 AM

I use MM Insignia White for the most part (Since Gunze is damn near impossible to find) I have to thin it down pretty well and use lots of light coats but for the most part I don't have any issues with it.

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Posted by Tojo72 on Friday, March 22, 2013 7:26 PM

I like MM Enamel Flat White,then I will use a glosscoat on it if gloss is neded

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