I have some Gunze Mr. Color paints and Gunze & Tamiya lacquer primer. What’s going to do the best job for cleaning the airbrush? Does standard airbrush cleaner (Iwata Medea, Lifecolor, Cretex etc) or windex work at all for this stuff or is chemical warfare required?
Eric
I don’t know about the proprietary airbrush cleaners you’ve mentioned, but generic lacquer thinner will do the job more economically. Windex won’t touch it at all.
Just a note about the bottled Tamiya Liquid Surface Primer. Though it’s a lacquer based product, it can be removed (and at a pinch, thinned) using denatured alcohol (ie 90%+ ethanol). I use denatured alcohol to clean my brushes after using LSP and it works very well.
It also means that you can use it as a fillerand when dry, wipe off the excess with a paper towel moistened with denatured alcohol. Fill and clean without sanding. [:D] Note that this only works with denatured alcohol - Isopropyl, will not work for this.