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Hi guys, ive bought some Tamiya Acrylic paint and X20 thinners.
What is the the thinners to paint ratio for airbrushing. Cheers

it depends on the brush and pressure. I'd suggest going setting to 20lbs at the very most and going 70% paint to 30% thinners and working from there. You might find you can run at a lower pressure but I'd experiment a bit on some primered plastic card.

You can shoot Tamiya paint neat. I usually go 60 paint 40 water

Yeah, it can he shot without thinners but I've read some having problems with that as the brush doesn't atomise properly. Also you get more per pot with thinners - I read people using 4, 5 or 60 10ml pots per tanks but thinned with a good brush you can cover something even as large as a leo2 with a 23ml pot.

And here is my 2 cents...

I run 50/%0 at 14 pounds and I use 99% rubbing alcohol as thinner as I find it gives a nice rougher finish to camo coats because the paint is virtually dry when it hits the target. If you smell Tamiya thinner and the rubbing alcohol amazing how they smell the same... But you can buy a couple of quarts of alcohol for the price of one bottle of Tamiya thinner.

Unfortunatley here in the UK , only industrial grade is pure , over the counter alcohol such as meths / Rubbing alcohol etc. will have additives ( an emetic ) in it - in the case of rubbing alcohol it is Castor oil I get Isopropyl alcohol (I.P.A.) from a local industrial supplier

X20 works well enough and I've had the same bottle for 4 years. Goes a long way.