Julez, Daywalker, Mobious, and Thunderbolt wow thank you all for your kind words and encouragement, you all make me want to build to the standards of this very talented group. I don't feel I have made it yet, but think I am getting closer with each build. I hope this next set of WIP pictures don't disappoint.
Thunderbolt Model Master does have a thinner for their acrylic paints, however I haven't tried it as it is rather pricey for a tiny bottle. What I have found is that you don't get near MM acrylics with alcohol, the stuff turns to marshmallow and clogs everything in sight. I thin mine with distilled water at around 25 or 30 percent and I clean my airbrush with lacquer thinner and rinse with water, cleaning it with my normal windex and water for Tamiya paints doesn't seem to do the trick.
Now on to the trials and tribulations of my full day motteling this 190. As I said I had very good luck with my 262 motteling with MM acrylics. Today I spent all day trying to get a decent pattern out of my AB, it would splatter, then it would clog then try to empty the cup all at once. I tried everything I could think of and still had troubles. Went thru my first bottle of RLM 80 and ran and got a second bottle, I even tried thinning it with lacquer thinner geeze, it flowed great but dried before it hit my test piece. . Now I have gone through half my second bottle of paint and thought of acrylic retarder, a run down to the local Arron Brothers and back home with a bottle of the stuff in my grimy and cranky at this point mitts. I had no idea how much retarder to mix with the paint so a few drops at a time were added until my clogging problem was solved, anyway it ended up being roughly 15% retarder to paint that worked for me. It could also be that I was trying to paint too fine a pattern with my AB too, as the 262 is much bigger and the RLM76 didnt clog my AB. Ok so here are the pictures, not what I was trying to do but it looks ok to me.