Need a proven reducer for this paint

[Monty]

I'm trying to phrase this nicely: please don't speculate if you don't know.  I really don't want to waste paint experimenting.

I came across an old box in my modeling supplies that had a number of bottles of House Of Kolor paint (the stuff sold at Walmart years ago).  None of the bottles had been opened, mostly because at the time the stores couldn't keep HoK's proprietary reducer in stock, so I never got to use them.  

They still seem viable, but I wouldn't know what to use to reduce them for airbrush use.  Years ago I even saw a post that said you'd have to use a product from a 1:1 auto paint store to make them work.  

Just curious...

 

[Mike 1017]

https://tcpglobal.com/products/hok_ru310-8z

[Can-Con]

  On 8/7/2020 at 10:17 PM, Monty said:

I'm trying to phrase this nicely: please don't speculate if you don't know.  I really don't want to waste paint experimenting.

I came across an old box in my modeling supplies that had a number of bottles of House Of Kolor paint (the stuff sold at Walmart years ago).  None of the bottles had been opened, mostly because at the time the stores couldn't keep HoK's proprietary reducer in stock, so I never got to use them.  

They still seem viable, but I wouldn't know what to use to reduce them for airbrush use.  Years ago I even saw a post that said you'd have to use a product from a 1:1 auto paint store to make them work.  

Just curious...

 

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Monty, read the lable real close ,,, does it say "by the makers" of HOK? If so, it's not real HOK paint, just some stuff Valspar cooked up to cash in on the name. They had so many complaints about the stuff they had to pul it off the market.

ANYWAY,, either should work with good old lacquer thinner. That's all I've ever used with real HOK paint from Black Gold.

[Monty]

I agree.  I always wondered how they got away with that.  When I lived in Dallas there was a place in Arlington (suburb) that sold real HoK paints and had a model display area where you could see how they looked.  Huge difference between that stuff and the stuff Walmart was selling.   

[Draggon]

I've used lacquer thinner on that paint. It works, but takes longer to dry than one would expect. I thought it acted like enamel.