What acrylic are you using? And how are you applying it?
Usually a ratio around 3:1 or 4:1 is a good starting point, but what you want is paint that flows freely, but not so thin that it’s ineffective. “Consistency of milk” is a term that’s thrown around a lot.
I am airbrushing vallejo model color and I guess what I was asking is if I was to mix up say a 250 ml of thinning mix made of water, thinner meduim, and future? how much meduim to water to future should I mix? I’m a complete nub to acrylics let alone airbrushing them.
If your doing brush work, mini painters would say you can not mix to thinly. It’s pretty much about the even spread of pigment over a surface, . It’s easier to paint more thin layers, and almost impossible to strip of thick layers of paint.
I would suggest getting an old model and doing paint tests to see what you feel comfortable with.
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Hello good ppl of Q/A & Help Group I am woundering if anyone has ever painted there mg/rg frames like the 3.0 with moving parts? I’d like to know does a top coat over the paint prevent most scratches?
I’ve never painted an rg frame but I have done mg frames with topcoat and they don’t tend to get scratched by the frames movement but sometimes the fit is so tight that the paint will get scraped off by the movement in which case you’d want to sand down the surface first just a bit, paint isn’t very thick but it does have a thickness
given how inset the poly cap is i imagine it would do so yes, but there would be a limit to how much you can cut away before the movement becomes to much for the (rather shallow looking) polycap that the leg just falls out all the time, id try and dummy it up with a spare piece first if possilble