Thinner eating away my paint

Firstly, the good news. X-20 enamel thinner is the right stuff to use for cleaning up Tamiya panel line wash.

The not so good news, yes, you'll need X-20A acrylic thinner to thin Tamiya acrylic paints.

Alrite so I proceeded to get myself a bottle of tamiya thinner. And to my dismay when I reached home, I realised I bought the X20 enamel thinner instead of the X20a acrylic thinner. Can it be used to wipe away the excess wash? And I'm also planning my first airbrush, using my existing tamiya acrylic paint. Can I use the X20 to thin the paint or do I need to get the X20A instead?

Kebin

Thanks for the insight guys, now i can see where the problem is. I'm using the wrong thinner - Should have used enamel thinner instead of laquer thinnner. And there's no clear coat to protect my paint. Looked up and I guess I need to get the Tamiya X-20 thinner and X-22 clear coat then.

 

For wiping enamel or oil washes I use odorless mineral spirits personally. Very lightly dampened tissue seems to work. FWIW Windsor Newton now has a line of oil paints that is water clean up ( just putting it out there).

Thanks for the insight guys, now i can see where the problem is. I'm using the wrong thinner - Should have used enamel thinner instead of laquer thinnner. And there's no clear coat to protect my paint. Looked up and I guess I need to get the Tamiya X-20 thinner and X-22 clear coat then.

There's several points here.

Kebin

I'm using Tamiya acrylic rattle can as the main coat.

Tamiya spray cans aren't acrylic, they're a "synthetic lacquer".

Kebin

i applied Tamiya black panel wash

Tamiya panel line wash is an enamel based system and requires an enamel thinner. I haven't used Tamiya spray cans in many years, but I believe that they can be cleaned up with regular enamel thinner, so either way, without an acrylic based clearcoat over the base paint, you're toasted.

Kebin

Then I dabbed a cotton swab with Mr colour Thinner 110(or 120 not sure) to wipe off the excess wash.

As mentioned above, Mr Color thinner (the number is unimportant, the "110" is the amount of thinner in the jar -110ml) is a lacquer thinner, and though it's relatively mild compared to hardware store LT's, it will eat basically any model paint.

Sorry there's no good news for you here.

 

LT will kill any paint finish. I use Turpenoid to wipe washes.

Also highly recommend acrylic gloss clear as a shield for color paint.

I'm thinking Mr Thinner thinner is lacquer thinner. You don't generally use lacquer thinner to wash away panels. I'll let someone who use those actual products you mention take it from there, I don't.