having troubles with Tamiya acrylic paints?
Ive been having trouble with these paints, like the amount of paint on the brush, if theres not enough the painted surface’s paint will ball up.
please reply if you have some sort of idea to prevent this. [BH]
Acrylics are hard to brush paint with. Not just Tamiya brand, but most of them. The problem is that they dry way too fast. I airbrush most things, but any time I brush paint with acrylics I thin them a LOT and add acrylic retarder. The Tamiya thinner appears to already contain some retarder to slow the drying time down, and my recommendation for brushing Tamiya acrylics would be to thin it with their brand of thinner. That will slow the drying time down and allow the paint to flow better.
I’ve thinned with their thinner, and with water. What I found works best for me… is to shake the bottle well, AFTER you have stirred it. (put the cap back on good[:I] voice of experience) Then take the lid off… dab the paint with your brush from the lid, onto some kind of hard surface to mix it. Then about 1/2 inch away put a drop of water or Tamiya thinner, draw the thinner into the paint until it is the desired thickness and paint… as it dries on your pallette, draw thinner in till you are done.
For some reason I have found trying to paint from the bottle almost always ends up with a glob on the brush… and I don’t want to thin the whole bottle for hand brushing, since I use it for other things too…
Oh yeah… there’s not the selection of MM Acrylics that Tamiya has, but they are MUCH easier to hand brush IMHO. Most of the time with little or no thinning. I tend to save Tamiya Acrylics for the airbrush… unless there is no getting around it.
Huh? Are you saying there are more colors in the Tamiya acrylic line than the MM Acryl line? [%-)]
There are 143 colors in the Acryl line if I counted properly and less than half that many in the Tamiya line.
Mike
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QUOTE: Originally posted by MikeV
Well, let me rephrase that… I have seen the testors site and know there is a great variety… but what I’ve seen locally available is less variety… my bust… I just don’t like waiting for paint unless I order the model online then I will order the paint with it if I dont have it… There are 140 acryls on the testors site not counting the Marine colors…
Most of the HS’s around here have wonderful selection of Tamiya (I smell a conspiracy) But more MM enamel then acryl.
But I do stick by my statement that MM is easier to brush… thinned or not.
Thanks tho990.
I assumed you might have meant what was available in your hobby shop but I was not sure until you cleared that up. [;)]
I have not used the Tamiya paints at all so I don’t know how they work with a paint brush, but I do agree with you that MM Acryl works very good with a brush.
Mike
Yeah it’s becoming a problem too… the closest hobby shop just got rid of their half-@** selection of MM acryl altogether. Kinda wierd… You think when you live in the 4th biggest city in the US you could at least get some good acryl! Believe it or not, Hobby Lobby now has more MM acryl than my 2 main HS’s put together… sad times indeed…[:(]
I use Tamiya, Model Master (acrylic), and some Poly Scale. I think I prefer the Tamiya slightly, but don’t really see a lot of difference between Tamiya and Model Master. Poly Scale is great for airbrushing but is very thin and probably difficult to hand brush.
If I have to hand brush something, my preference is actually Citadel acrylics. They have a line for fantasy figures that hand brush great (and airbrush very well to) although they have goofy names (i.e. “Bolt Gun Metal” instead of “Steel” and “Snot Green”)
“Snot Green?” You mean the same color my mother once painted her kitchen when I was a kid?[:D]
::rolling eyes:: no the same color my wife wants to paint our bedroom… [;)]
I really think she is color blind… even though its supposed to be a male thing… maybe color deficient???
Hey, I didn’t give their paints the names and that was one of the tame ones.
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They actually are good paints and for hand brushing acrylics they are the best I’ve found locally.