Thinner for Floquil besides DIO-SOL

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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anyone use floquil anymore, and use anything besides DIOSOL?
if I go the LHS route, its a speicla order. If I mail order, Im ordering and waiting.

I havent tried Lacquer thinner yet because I dont want to waste the precious bottle of paint I have (it was given to me by someone who ordered it, and wiated).

Other products that I can pick up locally so I can paint tonight?

thanks!

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Ti4019: Ok thats all I ever used in place of DIO SOL Ace Hardware brand works good if you can’t get Ace brand Sunnyside brand works real good also. Just be sure it’s a good grade of lacquir thinner. Aceses5[snWcm]

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The Floquil paint formula was changed when Testors bought them out. It used to be a pretty hot lacquer & Diosol was the thinner of choice. Currently, Floquil is a pretty hot enamel & any hardware lacquer thinner will work well. I use a lot of Floquil with lacquer thinner from Ace Hardware & have never had a problem.

Regards, Rick

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Rick

thanks for the quick answer, and the bit about the formula change. No Barrier Cote? Yay!

Im painting tonight! :smiley:

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ok finally got a chance to shoot it on this morning. PT worked fine and I cleaned out with LT and a complete dissassemble. Im happy with the coverage and abitlity to hide underlying colors.

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Micro-Mark has a product they say is the equivalent of the old Dio-Sol.

http://www.micromark.com/SearchResult.aspx?deptIdFilter=0&searchPhrase=dio+sol

I’ve never tried it, although I always used Dio-Sol for airbrushing all kinds of paint, including ModelMaster. Unfortunately, I’m afraid you’d end up waiting on the mail again.