Tamiya Paint help

[Vince66]

Plan on painting a vehicle in Tamiya TS60 & TS43.

Now if I decant these for airbrushing can I use acetone or do I need to do use a different thinner.

Or if I find these colors in a matching paint jar what would be a thinner I can use as I don't have a shop near me and limited availability of thinners.

And DONT EVEN ASK ME ABOUT Acrylic water based paints we do not get along at all.

[Erik Smith]

If you decant you won’t need to thin, it’s already thin enough. At least that’s my experience with Tamiya sprays. 

As far as thinning Tamiya jars, I think I’ve thinned then with Tamiya thinner or lacquer thinner...or did I use lacquer thinner? Ah, now I can’t remember, sorry.  Maybe I’ll remember in the morning. But I did use Tamiya thinner...

[Miatatom]

No thinner needed.

[Vince66]

Actually I do need thinner as the paint is going on n scale cars/trucks 1/160 scale so must be ultra thin layers of paint so as not to lose the detail.

[Jhedir6]

Yeah, no thinner needed. Tamiya paints are already very thin, so thin that some pippettes have trouble holding them when trying to transfer to the airbrush so watch that closely.

With that smaller scale I would thin it a bit and test it first. 

Also spray very thin coats, especially with metallics.

I just shot my Audi R8 today with decanted TS30, and did not thin at all.

Good luck,

[Dave G.]

On your acrylic comment, you would get along with Tamiya acrylic thinned with lacquer thinner, it pretty much acts like solvent paints but cleans up like acrylics. It's really a hybrid of some kind, more like lacquer or enamel than water based acrylic. Along the way sometime grab a bottle and give it a try, you will see what I mean for yourself. However for N scale you're on the right track, you will need lacquer thinner if you find it needs to be thinner after decanting. And on decanting, give the paint a few minutes to out gas propellant before spraying.

[Vince66]

Have to give this a try thanks everyone. 

Weird acrylic that acts like normal paint should be interesting. 

Again thanks everyone. 

[peteski]

Vince, some hobbyists started calling all water-solvent-based paints acrylics, That is not an accurate name for them..

Acrylic can be used in all sorts of both, water-based, and organic-solvent based paints. From my observations I would  say that Tamiya paint (in the round glass jars) is  acrylic-based lacquer, which use alcohols as solvent.

 

[Vince66]

Have to check it out PeteSki thanks everyone. 

Edited February 15, 2020 by Vince66