Enamels with an airbrush

I use lacquer thinner to clean my airbrush regardless of whether I'm painting with acrylics or enamels.

 However, I greatly prefer airbrushing with enamels and brush painting with acrylics. Acrylics always seem to clog up my airbrush and I have to keep cleaning it every few minutes during my paint session. With enamels, it goes so smooth and I only have to clean at the end on my session or between colors.

 I finally stopped trying to fight with acrylics and built a paint booth with a bottom mounted blower that vents outside. Best decision I ever made with this hobby.

I like to use lots and lots of alcohol.

And sometimes I use it for cleaning the airbrush.

Will lacquer-based media harm my plastic Aztek airbrush?

And for the record, I love my Model Master enamels.  I've never ever had a problem with them.  They go on so smoothly that, on a couple of occasions, I didn't even have to apply a gloss coat before decaling.

Eric

 All I use to AB is MM enamels, thinned with Testor's Universal Enamel Thinner through my Aztek.  Clean up starts with emptying and cleaning the color cup, then filling it with clean thinner and running that trough till sprays clean.  Then remove nozzle and let dry, no hassles.

As a hardcore enamel user, all I can say is," They'll get my enamels whjen they pry them from my cold dead fingers".