hello guys, right now i current own both both and water based painted for my airbrushing. being new to airbrushing i find cleaning oil based paints more tedious. Which do you guys prefer? and how do you clean up oil based paint?

thanks guys

Hi Leopold,
I do not know others, but for me I have never use oil paints for airbrushing.

to be more detailed i m using gunze mr colour
and tamiya water based

hi Leopold.
usually i use oil/enamel paints (humbrol etc) for airbrushing.... to clean use normal paint thinner from hardware shops. i also think that enamels takes longer to dry, so they dont dry quickly in the handpiece and clog the needle.
for normal brush painting i use only water-based/acrylic paints.

I mainly use water based acrylic paints with lacquer thinner or alcohol for airbrushing.

Sometimes, I use enamels, especially if it is going to be used as an undercoat visible through scratches from an acrylic overcoat.

However, I use enamels and oils for detailing and weathering. I never use oils for airbrushing.

Angela

Airbrushing is quite new to me. So far I have only used Humbrol enamels. I clean my AB with white spirits. Works fine.

one more question
i currently have turpentine and mr colour thinner, can they be used for thinning oil paints for washing?

Hi Leopold,
I use turpentine to thin the oil for washing and weathering.

my dad has like 5 different AB to paint cars as he used to sandblast and paint cars and motercycles to make a littel dough to pay the bills when i was younger... so he still has some omni au cleaner... ive used it a few times to far to clean enamles and its works a lot better than thinner

Frank