How thin are you going?

[Mizozuman2]

No, I'm not talking about that diet. I'm talking about paint!

How thin do you mix your paint?

Usually, I stick to the rule of thumb on "2% milk", though sometimes, I like to have it thicker, or thinner. Depending on the "roundness" of the body.

[Kit Basher]

Well, I still have a little hair left... Oh wait, you're talking about paint! I usually make mine thinner than milk, closer to water. Like the consistency of Alclad or Metalizers. I avoid runs by adjusting the volume on the A/B.

[mnwildpunk]

Still trying to figure what is best for my set up it is hit or miss mostly miss lol.

[jaydar]

I add thinner until the mixture drips off the stir as soon as i remove it. About the consistency of milk/skim milk.

Joe.

[Art Anderson]

A good way to see what well-thinned paint should be (enamel or lacquer) is to "decant" some paint from a rattle can into your color jar, and see how that airbrushes.

From that point, "the consistency of 2% milk" is a very good place to start with these two types of paint. From my experience, that's about as thin as enamel should be, because unlike lacquers, enamels take a lot longer to "flash off", which means that excessive wet enamel can, and most likely will "run" either by gravity, or by the force of the air/paint coming out of the airbrush. In this, lacquers are a lot more "forgiving" (I've shot lacquers so reduced with thinner that they barely covered when doing a final "leveling" coat--but that's taking it to the extreme edge.

Art

[BIG NICKY]

dang im a noob to this air brush thing so I just thin it a little put it in the gun and if it sprays im good with that lol if not its back into the mixing cup for another try