I am confused about this brand of paint, manufacturer advertises them as acrylic based. Anyone uses them ?

http://www.dragonmodelsusa.com/dmlusa/images/Mr.Color.Small.jpg

I used Mr.Hobby Aqueous long time ago and now I am unable to buy them in the States. Few online vendors still carry them in HongKong. Thanks in advance.

Hi Thanh
To be honest I've never used them because they are very hard to find in Italy and because I don't like using lacquer paints with my airbrush

However as far as I know they are "lacquer" based (so, Enamels)

To be exact, they must be acrylic pigments solved into a lacquer base


The definition "solvent based acrylic paint" could create some misunderstanding
When on a paint bottle is written "acrylic paint" it means that the pigments of that paint are made of acrylic resin so a kind of synthetic pigment.
It doesn't necessarily mean that we can dilute that paint with alcohol or water. In fact also Gunze Aqueous colors are acrylic paints but, as you know, you have to dilute them with rubber alcohol, distilled water or Tamiya X20a thinner.

Anyway you can dilute Gunze Mr color paints with their thinner: (BLUE LABEL)



In my opinion you can use also Tamiya LACQUER thinner (yellow cap)



Here you can find an useful document which explains the dilutions of the most common paints

http://www.little-cars.co.uk/workbench49.pdf

I hope this could help you

cheers