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                        A/B Mixing Help Please

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                        Dubau
                        • Member since
                          March 2006
                        • From: Boyertown, PA, USA
                        A/B Mixing Help Please
                        Posted by Dubau on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:42 PM

                        I am about to use an A/B for the 1st time and I need know know what and how to mix the paint for it. I am ONLY going to be using Acryl paint. Easer to clean up, hehhe.

                        So how much paint and how much " water " ?

                        Thanks all

                        Bud

                        " You've experienced a set back, and without set backs and learning how to fix them you'll never make the leap from kit builder to modeler "
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:50 PM
                        usually around 3:1, look in here at Badger 175 and acrylics,it has a lot of the answers
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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 9:00 PM
                        Bud,

                        Water alone is not a very good thinner.
                        I suggest you mix filtered or distilled water 50/50 with Isopropyl Alcohol and use that as a thinner in a 2:1 ratio of paint to thinner.


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