hey guys,

I know a few of you guys out there had your nozzle clog up when airbrushing with acrylics because they dry to fast. the same happens to me, i thought of going back to enamels but i realy love the facility of mixing paints and diluting acrylics. so i thought of buyign a new nozzle, but for 14$, i changed my mind... and searched for another solution and found this :

http://www.currys.com/airmediums/prodinfo.asp?SubcatID=19&catID=5

take a look, i didnt try it yet, but iam lookign forward to it!
Frank

I find it depends on what kind of acrylic paint you are using.

I have used mostly MM Acrylics and Tamiya Acrylics

MM Acrylics dry really fast....the only airbrush I have gotten them to work OK in is a Badger 350....didn't matter what I thinned them with.

Tamiya on the other hand....I can spray till the cows come home and it never drys up....have done a long session spraying a couple of different kits using the same colors over 30-45mins and they didn't dry up....the MM stuff....would be lucky if I got 5 mins of decent spraying before it dryed up.

And that is spraying in a Badger 200 or Aztek 4709

yeah, tamiya is fine, but iam talking hte acrylic paint they sell at home depot..or you can find them almost everywere, dolorama has them also!

Frank

weird, i can spray MM Acryl straight through my Badger 200 just fine

I have a Paasche VLS and use Tamiya acrylics exclusively and I've never had any sort of problems with them using Tamiya's X-20A Thinner.