It should work good. The few times I've tried water were enough to keep me on the alcohol path (sounds like W.C. Fields, doesn't it?). The Windex retards the setting of the "Future" and allows it to flow better, giving you a increased chance for a smooth, glossy finish. The big problem with house paint is that the color bits (very simple description) are much bigger than what we're used to in hobby paints. The Windex doesn't thin the acrylics, it dissolves them and running Windex through the airbrush doesn't leave any foul smells (but if your spouse does ask about the smell, tell her you're cleaning your room). Copyright © 2021 TacAir Publications, LLC. Copyright © document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) Website Acquisitions Inc. All rights reserved. If Windex worked good to thin your paints for airbrushing, then you may be tempted to use blue Windex as the thinner (up to 50% volume or more) for these applications too. Distilled water doesn't have the contaminants/additives found in tap water or well water. I have tried to thin model master acrylic paints with alcohol and water, however, the results were not suitable for airbrushing. When a couple of drops slowly drip off the brush it's at the right consistency - approximately like skim milk. 17.07.2020 - Entdecke die Pinnwand „Airbrush video“ von Ailenrok. 06-02-2012, 12:38 AM #2. Without thinning, clogging occurs. For thinning acrylic craft paint for airbrushing, you can use rubbing alcohol or try some Windex. There was indeed a difference! Stir the paint and thinner with an old brush. Thanks. Windex contains alcohol though. By the end of the guide, you should be completely informed and prepared to thin out acrylic paint for airbrush, miniatures, spray guns, pouring and more! The gentleman in the video recommended a mix of 33% alcohol to 67% distilled water. Spray a few full cups of Windex through your brush until no color is coming out. Thinning Acrylic Paint with Windex? The paint responded extremely well out of my airbrush. Consistancy of slightly thick milk. I just tried windex or something like it for the first time and it worked well. I've been using Tamiya acrylic thinner which has worked fine to date (except for Testors Acryl) but between price and availability, it was becoming a problem. If you thinned out yellow paint with blue Windex, would it still be yellow? There I was one sleepless night cruising through YouTube videos and I happened across a subject that caught my eye - making your own acrylic thinner. I made up a mixture of water and alcohol using the proportions above, then added around 10 ml of Flow Improver and 10 ml of Fluid Retarder for this test batch. Windshield washer fluid (blue IS also used if clear can't be obtained) is a very commonly used thinner on the model car and plane forums. Using alcohol was okay when I was single, but using alcohol today will get some less-than-polite feedback from my wife. Try Liquitx airbrush medium for thinning the paint. In the past I've used water with isopropol alchohol to thin acrylics. You can airbrush it fairly well, but it requires either Windex or an ammonia-based windshield-washer fluid to thin it. 99.9% Isopropyl Alchohol can be found for around $3 USD/pint (473 ml). I guess you can tell I'm not the one who does the food shopping in my house. It worked well also but the ease of just putting a couple of squirts of window cleaner in is very appealing. I have found that a drop or two of Windex in the AB cup works wonders when applying "Future". Post Dec 20, 2009 #1 2009-12-20T14:53. Weitere Ideen zu airbrush, kunstarten, augenzeichnung. 109. gonzalogd. 109. Metallic Acrylic Paint You can airbrush with metallic acrylic paints, as long as you use one of the above methods to thin out the paint. Acrylic paints dry quickly, are easy to clean and have no odors. You’ll know the exact steps you need to follow to get it done right – and know a couple of things to look out for and avoid along the way. Help: thinning model master acrylics. So. It gets much worse when you move to making your own stains or "Pollyscale" equivalent paint by ultra-thinning craft paints. Could that work too? The binder is the actual film forming component of paint. So what about costs? A very tiny bit more of a challenge than Mr. No harm, no foul. And no, the blue tint will not affect the color of the paint. QuietiManes. Celebrating 21 years of hobby news and reviews. gonzalogd. Step 1 – Remove the excess paint. Some important tips to remember on how to thin acrylic paint for airbrush Windex, have been discussed below. Because it's widely available, cheap and does the job perfectly thinning acylic paint. Dieser Pinnwand folgen 333 Nutzer auf Pinterest. I did try a few shots of acrylics straight out of their bottles to see the difference in performance. I've blown Rustolleum Painters Touch (water based) through my airbrush after thinning with Windex. Future has several uses: Add to paint to improve adhesion; Add to paint to add satin sheen Army Doc, the mix you posted contains stuff that is already in most airbrush paints as flow enhancer and surfactant. I did try a few shots of acrylics straight out of their bottles to see the difference in performance. If it is not thinned, it may create an orange peel effect on the model. I've discussed this with some knowledgeable folks who thin their acrylics with water (or windshield washer fluid). MitchellTyner. Thinning or mixing acrylic paint takes a lot of tries before getting the right density. The following errors occurred with your submission. Using Createx, Smith Wildlife, Polytranspar, and Van Dykes acrylics, I haven't felt the need. It is an acrylic coating that dries hard and has the nice feature that it can be re-desolved by a solution of ammonia. I've seen a couple things online that say use windex as it's really cheap and thins it well. Mixing the right consistency is vital for the airbrush and paint to work together. If you use esoteric airbrush paint with special formulation, something more may be needed or helpful. Ulises Victoria. A gallon of distilled water will run you around $1 USD at the supermarket. ScYcS. Ulises Victoria. A quick mid-use cleaning method I make use of. I usually dump paint from the stock bottle to a smaller paint bottle that matches the air brush, no more than 1/2 to 3/4 full. I use 99.9% Isopropyl Alcohol as the lesser strength alcohols are not as effective (according to the folks that taught me the alcohol approach years ago) and is likewise recommended in the video. Sep 3, 2012 - This video shows my method for thinning Vallejo acrylic paint with Windex for use in an Airbrush. Posted June 20, 2013. Use a 1:1 ratio and mix your rubbing alcohol and paint, then spray with the airbrush. Keeping everything "wet" on the inside also makes it straightforward and easy to clean your airbrush with Windex or airbrush thinner when you're done. Contrast this with a 250 ml bottle of Tamiya X20A thinner for almost $9.00 USD. The third ingredient is a few drops of Acrylic Flow Improver to remove surface tension of the fluid (you might have heard of folks using a drop of dish soap for the same purpose). If you thinned out yellow paint with blue Windex, would it still be yellow? Having the right frequency of color is very critical for them to nebulize efficiently, which is the principle on which an airbrush works. Is there clear windex out there and that's what I should try, or does the blue tint simply not matter? Just a quick question: When thinning acrylic craft store type paints with Windex or windshield washer fluid, does the blue color effect the final color of the thinned out paint? For years I used Isopropyl Alcohol (99%) that you can find inexpensively in drug stores, but this required serious ventilation as the alcohol vapor can get absorbed quickly into your bloodstream as you breath it (not good). I've had really great results using alcohol as an acrylic thinner for paints from Tamiya, Gunze Sangyo (Aqueous/Mr.Hobby), Vallejo, Italeri, and Akan (don't try this with Testors Acryl, it took some time to clean the resulting goo from my airbrush). Apr 09, 2004, 12:59 PM #2; ScYcS. Lift the brush out of the paint. Windex would be the better solution in your case. The amount of water you add depends on the desired effect and the surface. Water is a possibility. Jimsky Sign up now. Let’s say I’ve just finished an airbrush session at it’s time to clean up. Paints will supposedly dry slower using the airbrush mediums compared with alcohol. Windex or windshield wiper fluid, either one will work well. Alcohol makes the paint dry much faster and stick better to the foam (doesn't tear as much as alcohol). The pigment particles in acrylic craft paints aren't as fine as those in acrylic airbrush paint and have the potential to clog an airbrush. such as Windex is a great brush cleaner for when you hand paint acrylics. With a recent test build, I used Tamiya, Italeri (Vallejo), Gunze Sangyo Aqueous (Mr.Hobby) and Akan acrylics, all thinned with this mixture. Exterior house paint is really pretty thick. The resulting thinner mixture smells about the same as Tamiya's thinner and while you'll still want to use some ventilation, this thinner is far more family friendly than pure alcohol and more effective (for me at least) than pure water. to remove ads between posts. And as you can see from these illustrations, just thinning an opaque paint will not completely overcome the negative flow characteristics of a larger particle size. The paint was rather thick and it kept clogging the airbrush tip. It is the only component that must be present. I didn't try using this mixture for airbrush cleanup as I use Windex window cleaner with ammonia for that job. It is 80% water and can be thinned with anything water soluble. This method of thinning acrylic craft paint for airbrushing is very effective and affordable, as it only costs about 77 cents a bottle. That's when I saw this YouTube video from Genessis Models in the UK. Why pay more if you can have the same result with windex? Anyway, the OP isn't crazy. Thinning acrylic paint for airbrushing is essential, but you should understand that the results might not be quite as nice as the results achieved with special acrylic airbrush paints. The paint on display here isn’t even paint – it’s Mr. Finishing Surfacer 1500. So even though plenty of people are using the windowlene/windex for thinning paint I'll probably reserve it for cleaning the brush making sure I rinse out with water well. Then use acrylic thinner or, distilled water, adding a few drops at a time and stir. The best part is that you can adjust the proportions of each of the four ingredients until you find that perfect mix. View Profile View Forum Posts View Gallery View Favorites Private Message View Blog Entries View Articles Brushlicker Join Date Mar 2003 Location Ottawa, ON, Canada Posts 1,400 Rep Power 19. Some swear by it and others prefer alcohol. Sword-Wielding Bloodletter of Khorne NC Hey guys, I'm just starting airbrushing and I was wondering how I could make some cheap thinner to use with my airbrush paints. Evening I have been trying to spray for the first time AK paints, on this time the rust paint for tracks and have had major problems . Flow improver keeps paint from drying up and collecting inside your airbrush as you're spraying, especially during longer airbrush sessions. How to Thin Out Acrylic Paint. How about dishwasher rinse aid? It is an acrylic fluid that dries glossy and pretty hard. Air and water propel the paint. He recommends an interesting mixture that merited a test. I tried to find the Acrylic Flow Improver and Fluid Retarder at the local art supply stores but I wound up ordering them from Amazon. It seems like that'd be an issue adding it to paint. Subject: Thinning airbrush paint. Water breaks down the binder in acrylic, thinning the paint so that it looks like watercolor and allows it to sink into the surface, resulting in a matte finish. The final ingredient is Acrylic Fluid Retarder which slows down the drying time of acrylics and keeps your paint in fluid form when it hits the model and doesn't dry at the airbrush tip or in the air enroute to the model. The rubbing alcohol should easily be found in most crafts stores and Walmart. Paint or heavily thinned Gunze. There was indeed a difference! Frank. Let’s get into the guide! The paint responded extremely well out of my airbrush. It has no color and the bottle was under $2 at Wallyworld. I hope that the video's may have shed a little light on some of the ways to use them are. I'm using Vallejo game color paints if that matters. Airbrush acrylic paint is the most commonly used medium preferred by artists. I used windex clear. Notice: The appearance of U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Defense, or NASA imagery or art does not constitute an endorsement nor is Cybermodeler Online affiliated with these organizations. IMO. I used a 500 ml bottle for my mixture and calculating the costs of materials, it cost about $2.65 USD to mix 500 ml and I have ample fluids to make more batches. Quote; Link to post Share on other sites. 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