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Gundam Forums 9 years, 2 months ago Sick of white paint. It clogged up my airbrush and even after I unclogged it and used more it still wasn’t thinned enough to spray properly. It’s so thick and goopy. After my Tallgeese I don’t think i’ll be using white paint for a while. Or if I do i’ll use something other than Tamiya.
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Was that Tamiya acrylic you were working with? If so, I’m surprised you had those problems with it. Possible weather/climate conditions aside, they’re usually really easy to work with even without using their brand of thinners.
I’m wondering the same thing. I’ve NEVER had any clogging issues with Tamiya before. What type of thinner were you using?
It’s flat white if that matters and it was tamiya thinner. The white I was using seemed very oily and thick. Especially compared to my greys which are very liquid. Maybe I just didn’t thin it enough. It took ages to get it unclogged.
I really haven’t worked with their flat paints yet, but I have not had any trouble out of Tamiya paints. I have heard from a few sources, one being Dlinker, that the flat paints can be problematic. What was your paint:thinner ratio and what PSI were you spraying at?
Now that is VERY strange. I ran into just about every problem but that one, haha.
I didn’t notice anything different with their flat colors in terms of thinning or behavior during sprays. I’ve painted flat blue, red, dark sea gray, and black using the same ratio as the gloss colors (1:1.5). Might be weather/climate conditions that require more thinning than usual. Or just a bad bottle of paint.
I could have sworn you told me that they tend to clog up easily and look chalky when they cure.
I have experienced the chalkiness, but never clogging.
Hmm, I must have been wrong then. Dlinker is probably right in that case. Weather and humidity, bad paint is probably the cause.
The chalky part is 100% certain, haha. The only flat that looked good out of my uses was the flat black.
Clogging issues, I didn’t encounter any yet. However, I have seen something like that happen in the bottles themselves, resulting in me having to shake/mix them for a while. It’s like the pigments clump up at the bottom and need a good deal of agitation.
They do tend to dry very chalky but have never had them clog or lump up and i have thinned with their thinner and alcohol.