Airbrush Paint Thinner

Cover the nozzle with your finger and move the lever back.

Airbrush paint thinner.

Use an old cheap brush to mix the two. The airbrush thinner is to help thin out your airbrush acrylic paint while paint extenders made by paint manufacturers only make the paint more transparent and not thinner. Learning to thin and mix your normal acrylic paints so you can use them successfully in an airbrush is a bit difficult but atom is here in this video to giv. Assuming you use a different paint next time.

Airbrush and paint thinners reducers from jvr pro color vallejo. Add 2 3 drops of water or thinner to the airbrush cup. You can add an acrylic medium or flow improver which helps increase the flow and also keeps the tip from drying. The army painter airbrush medium non toxic water based airbrush thinner and flow improver paint thinning medium for tabletop roleplaying boardgames and wargames miniature model painting.

Some paints are ready to use with any airbrush nozzle size however some brands may need reducing to spray through smaller nozzle sizes. Acrylic medium is commonly much thinner than acrylic paint by itself. This paint thinner is ideal for model air and liquid acrylic paints although it has been found to work with a variety of other mediums as well. Is simply because acrylic airbrush paint thinners are laced with additives to maintain the integrity of the paint during reduction.

This will cause a backflow that will further help mix the paint and thinner. For airbrush applications the suggested thinner to paint ratio is 1 4 although you may need to experiment a little to achieve the effect you want. However acrylic medium will not breakdown the paint like water or regular thinner will. Airbrush acrylic medium can work great for thinning your airbrush paint.

If you start with paint the paint might get into the airbrush tube which could clog the brush or make it harder to clean. It can be used stand alone or incorporated in with one of the following options listed above. Mixing the paint with the correct thinner reducer will thin the consistency of the paint but also it will reduce the paint pigment in size. These additives are likely to be left behind in the airbrush after cleaning possibly contaminating the paint next time you go to airbrush.