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Mr. Color question?
Papsiecool
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Posted: Friday, April 22, 2011 - 03:29 PM UTC
hi everyone. Im just wondering if any of you guys have been successful in painting military figures using Mr. Color(Lacquer-based paint). Im on a tight budget and all i have in my workbench are these line of paints.

Your comments will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Posted: Friday, April 22, 2011 - 05:08 PM UTC
I normally wouldn't use them for hand brushing, but I have used them to hand brush details before and they work just fine for basecoating. You will need to make sure to use the same brand of thinner for them though, otherwise they will leave brush strokes and can easily make a mess of your brushes.
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Posted: Friday, April 22, 2011 - 09:36 PM UTC
Possibly if you use Mr Color Leveling Thinner - which contains some retarder - it could work. Otherwise Mr Color paints are not exactly suited for brush painting as they harden very quickly.

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Posted: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 - 09:41 PM UTC
thanks for the help guys. :-)
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Posted: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 - 09:57 PM UTC

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I normally wouldn't use them for hand brushing, but I have used them to hand brush details before and they work just fine for basecoating. You will need to make sure to use the same brand of thinner for them though, otherwise they will leave brush strokes and can easily make a mess of your brushes.


Happened that even with Tamiya X20A thinner Jeremy?

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Posted: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 - 11:24 PM UTC

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happened that even with Tamiya X20A thinner Jeremy?

it is for acrylics. From Tamiya you need Lacquer Thinner TA 87077
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Posted: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 - 11:34 PM UTC

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happened that even with Tamiya X20A thinner Jeremy?

it is for acrylics. From Tamiya you need Lacquer Thinner TA 87077


Yes, that's true I'm sorry but I haven't noticed that the topic were on Gunze lacquer base paints. i thought they ware the acrylics ones

cheers
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Posted: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 - 12:22 AM UTC

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Gunze lacquer base paints. i thought they ware the acrylics ones

cheers

Those are called Mr. Hobby, not Mr. Colour.
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