In my local hobby shop there is Humbrol paint but no Humbrol thinner.

Can I get similar results with another enamel thinner? Or do I need to stick with their kind?

Thanks

Yes and no.
For brush painting, most mild thinners work well for thinning the paint as its constantly stirred.
For washes and for airbrushing, I havent found anything that works as well. Washes with other thinner seam to break up leaving small lumps of pigment and not a fluent colour. I havent had much success with airbrushing either as it seperates in the cup .... thinner coming to the top and the pigment blocking the nozzle. Over the last few years Ive tried a good few alternatives that were recommended, but never found a good equivelent for all.

As Frank has said the formulation of Humbrol thinner is very different to what I know as white spirit. I have bought a dozen of the small bottles as it is so good when used for washes and is not quite as agressive as the ordinary products like white spirit, when used even with properly cured enamel paints. The first clue to it being different is that it has a totally different smell to the normal white spirits that have a petroleum product oduor.

The only thing that I found that was similar was a product called quick drying thinners that Hannants produced to use with the old xtracolour paint range, which I am intending to findout if the still do.

I would contact a few hobby stores and buy up a bulk lot of Humbrol thinners if it is about as I am concerned as to what to use in future for filters, washes and other weathering purposes if Humbrol is not bought up by another company. sadly there appears to be no news since it was reported in the UK press that Hornby were interested.

John

Thanks alot John & Frank for your input. Both answers were very informative