Tamiya Metallic paint

[Rusty92]

Last night using my Paasche Talon, my Tamiya flat aluminum (metallic) was not wanting to spray a solid even line. It would spray very wide and I couldn’t lay down a nice single line of it. I had no trouble spraying a wider area, just not fine details  

My other Tamiya paints lay down fine and I can use the smallest needle to really do some fine detail work. Not so much with the flat aluminum metallic color. Why could this be?

Edited August 26, 2019 by Rusty92

[935k3]

If you are using the Acrylic XF-16 I would use a bigger tip. The metallic particles are pretty big in that stuff. Also try some of Tamiya's retarder for the acrylics they will spray better and have less dry tip problems.

[Rusty92]

Precisely, dry tip! That’s what it was too! I will look for their retarder. The acrylic thinner was just not enough. Thank you for the response. It brushes on quite nice though. 

[935k3]

I forgot, if you cannot find the Tamiya retarder Liquitex Flow Enhancer works and I think it is available at Hobby Lobby.