tamiya acrylics delayed once again

oh trust me..i know the smell of tamiya lacquer and their acrylics don't smell anything close to lacquer. 

lacquer over powers alcohol any day of the week. my point is if it was really lacquer based their regular thinner wouldn't do a thing. 

stymye

Tamiya   is an acrylic lacquer(or Lacquer acrylic if such a thing exists) , it makes no sense to thin it with alcohol

whoever came up with that idea has no idea why im sure ,  , .

Open a bottle of Tamiya acrylic, take a sniff....my nose says alcohol...now you can be sure that`s why I use alcohol to thin my paint. Now, if the good people at Tamiya recommended you go to the nearest bridge and jump.....? A long time ago, I asked people on this forum, other forums and did my own searching about the thinning issue we`re having here and the answer 99% of the time was "alcohol". I took the advice and been running with it ever since. If things have changed since then, ok, wasn`t aware until now, but I`m still going to use what I use until I verify all this new info. What company doesn`t recommend their own thinners for their paint?  Nothing has ever happened to my MM paints while using regular ol` Klean and Strip and the same with Tamiya and alcohol so what "makes no sense" to you makes perfect sense to me.

I tried using Lacquer thinner but I'm still overweight.

 

stymye

Tamiya   is an acrylic lacquer(or Lacquer acrylic if such a thing exists) , it makes no sense to thin it with alcohol

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.. to be honest Tamiya is  barely an acrylic , but it does contain some acrylic binder so I guess they feel that is enough to call it acrylic paint...lol

At one time (in the early 80's), Tamiya did actually list the constituents of the paint:

Water Soluble Acrylic Resin - 40.3%
Pigment                               - 14.1%
Alcohol                                -  19.9%
Water                                  -  25.7%

I'm sure the formulation has changed since then, but it wouldn't be too different. It is most definitely an acrylic, but in the end, it doesn't really matter what you call it as long as it works. I have thinned Tamiya acrylics with water, IPA, ethyl (denatured) alcohol, Tamiya X-20A thinner, Tamiya Lacquer thinner, Mr Color thinner. All give usable results, each has its pros and cons. What it means is that Tamiya's acrylics are remarkably flexible in what thinner you can use (and no, the type of thinner does not determine whether a paint is acrylic or not) and allows you to pick and choose depending on the application and the effect you want to achieve.

GreenThumb

 

stymye:

 

Tamiya   is an acrylic lacquer(or Lacquer acrylic if such a thing exists) , it makes no sense to thin it with alcohol

 

 

Yes these look horrible from thinning Tamiya acrylics with 70% ethyl alcohol.

 

'nother horrible finish with off-the-shlef .99 cents 70% alcohol with Tamiya Paints

that F4....what a beauty.