Model Master airbrush thinner

Eaglecash867

 

Thanks for the tip, and thanks for the compliment!  As of right now, they have had the exact colors I needed, but I'm just getting going again with model cars...so that may change as I get more of them under my belt.  Really looking forward to the next project, a 1987 Porsche 911 Turbo...the Testors boxing of a Fujimi Enthusiast Series model.  Built that exact model when I was in high school, so I wanted to revisit it, with the skills, tools, and materials I have acquired since then.

 

MCW will mix your paint up for you and then add that to their selections if they don't list it already. You need either a color match chip they can photograph with their spectrometer camera to feed into their computer or the paint code. My problem with all that is I've contacted them with general questions and never gotten a reply. But that's me, obviously others have gotten replies.

oldermodelguy

MCW will mix your paint up for you and then add that to their selections if they don't list it already. You need either a color match chip they can photograph with their spectrometer camera to feed into their computer or the paint code. My problem with all that is I've contacted them with general questions and never gotten a reply. But that's me, obviously others have gotten replies.

I've had the same problem sending e-mails to them.  I tried calling them one time though and that was a great experience.  Very knowledgeable and responsive that way.

Eaglecash867

 

I've had the same problem sending e-mails to them.  I tried calling them one time though and that was a great experience.  Very knowledgeable and responsive that way.

 

That's good to know, thanks.

I pulled down my 8 ounce metal can stash of airbrush thinner to refill my smaller bottle and noticed it had a price tag of $10.99 on it. Not sure how long I have had it and I believe I got it from Hobbytown. Saw the same can on Ebay for $35. A little quick computation and I come up with around $577 per gallon! Plus shipping! Another seller has the 1 3/4 oz. bottles listed for almost $10! Had I of known of the ending of the some of these things, I would have stocked up and resold them for money!

jimbot58

I pulled down my 8 ounce metal can stash of airbrush thinner to refill my smaller bottle and noticed it had a price tag of $10.99 on it. Not sure how long I have had it and I believe I got it from Hobbytown. Saw the same can on Ebay for $35. A little quick computation and I come up with around $577 per gallon! Plus shipping! Another seller has the 1 3/4 oz. bottles listed for almost $10! Had I of known of the ending of the some of these things, I would have stocked up and resold them for money!

 A combo of hardware store mineral spirits and paint thinner mixed together then thin with that works just as well. And hardware store lacquer thinner works perhaps even better.

Perhaps many of us have been duped over the years to only use their propriatary products.

jimbot58

Perhaps many of us have been duped over the years to only use their propriatary products.

 

Speaking for myself, I haven't used their thinner since the 1970's. There is more to the story but that doesn't matter.