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gunze and valejo mix
aminxe
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Posted: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 06:42 AM UTC
hi,
do valejo and gunze aqueous mix well?
Spiderfrommars
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Posted: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 07:12 AM UTC
I've never done but absolutely I don't think so

Gunze are alchool-based paints wheras Valejo are water based paints
If you try to dilute the valejo paints with alcohol, you'll obtain a sort of awful jam that you can't use it, so i think they aren't compatible at all

Tamya and Gunze are compatible and maybe (but I'm not sure about) Lifecolor and Valejo are compatible

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aminxe
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Posted: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 07:27 AM UTC
i said gunze aqueous not the mr color solvent range.
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Posted: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 07:37 AM UTC
I've understood They are called aqueous but their thinner is isopropyl alcohol. In fact i usually dilute them with X20a tamiya thinner

Anyway you can try to mix them and paint a junk model or a plastic card piece

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Posted: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 03:33 PM UTC
In a word, NO.

Just because it is an acrylic paint, doesn't mean they can be mixed with another acrylic paint.

Simple mechanics....Gunze acrylics are an isopropyl alcohol base, Vallejo is a water base.

And as Mauro has said, an alcohol base/thinner into Vallejo will gel it.

While you can thin both Vallejo and Gunze with water, you can't thin both with alcohol (or Tamiya thinner). Just simply a different base acrylic.
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