Can someone explain how Gunze Mr. Hobby colors work?

Had a nice thorough reply typed up, but the pop up induced glitch killed it, and I'm not going to retype it all... sorry TM.

in a nutshell, I'll say find a different product based on my experience.

Mr Aqueous is their acrylic line. Mr Color is the lacquer line. Either line can be thinned with Mr Leveling Thinner as can Tamiya X and XF acrylic or LP lacquers. All can be thinned with hardware store lacquer thinner as well.

Now that said, there is nothing wrong with Tamiya X-22 clear gloss. Try the lacquer thinner in it to thin it, it makes for a harder surface ( according to Tamiyas site,not just my words but their own). Mix it around 50-50, build three coats from light to medium,let each flash off then put down two good wet coats, you should get a nice gloss. And if it's not quite enough just buff it up from there. But with that said the Gunze clear should work fine over all these paints as well. So will the X-22.

I've also thinned the X-22 with straight denatured alcohol. It looks like a fail on the first couple of coats but by the 5th coat the shine comes on. Remember the clear is quite thinned out so the coats even when wet aren't real thick. With DNA it flows out like crazy so shoot a bit further away on the first couple of coats to build a base. DNA makes it flow out smooth as a baby's butt, no sign of orange peel at all. But you do have to watch out for running.

Also heat setting helps flash the coats thus the improved gloss by those last wet coats, even a hair dryer helps but dehydrator is awesome.

By the way, with acrylic colors I flash each coat with a hair dryer as well. The first coat with acrylic paint is just a dust coat, I flash that for sure. It's the building foundation for all remaining coats. With color I usually go 3 coats, sometimes 4 depending how it was thinned.

Big fan of Mr Color thinned with their leveling thinner for airbrushing.  As testors disapears I'm investing in this line.

For clears I used Future for gloss decal prep and Testors dullcoat for flat.  I'm just getting started with Speedokote 2K clear coat for super high gloss automotive stuff.

In a nutshell, best not to mix Gunze lacquer with acrylics.  Gunze's lacquer clear coats may cause Tamiya paints to crack or bubble.

I have friends who use Tamiya acrylics thinned with alcohol, and they get great results.  I am a enamel/lacquer guy though, so I cannot offer any more useful information.

I found this a helpful easy reference

Thank you all for the wonderful replies!