Testors discontinues Model Master products

[nkalanaga]

"Mostly acetone" doesn't sound encouraging to me.  I have some straight acetone, from work, that I tried as styrene cement.  It didn't do a thing to Evergreen strips, and had very little effect on an ancient MT (KD) boxcar.  In fact, working carefully, it can be used to take the lettering off MT models, without damaging the car.

[Lemosteam]

Yeah once you try the tamiya stuff, you'll almost never go back. It's like doing surgery with a scalpel versus a dump truck.

Agreed.  COMPLETELY.

[Chris333]

What do you guys thin Tamiya with? When I use water it doesn't seem right.

[thomasjmdavis]

What do you guys thin Tamiya with? When I use water it doesn't seem right.

Well, there is always Tamiya thinner (assuming you mean for their acrylic paints). 
 
And IIRC (I don't have any Tamiya paint handy to test) a mix of about 2/3 distilled water to 1/3 90% alcohol.  Works on many water borne acrylics but NOT TESTORS acryls (which turn to sticky mud in your airbrush).

[chicken45]

What do you guys thin Tamiya with? When I use water it doesn't seem right.

Usually brow sweat from a single, incel, neckbearded railfan.

[Frank Amato]

What do you guys thin Tamiya with? When I use water it doesn't seem right.

For general coverage, I thin 1:1 with isopropyl, and add a splash of their retarder; slows the tip clogging/drying.

You can thin it much more for fading/filtering too, YMMV.

  Frank

[Lemosteam]

I used to use 91% IPA, but now I use their thinner.  I have not tried the retarder.  I will have to pick some up.

[SkipGear]

I'm with John, for Tamiya paint, their thinner seems to work best.

I've been playing a lot with vallejo paint recently. They have what they call a "thinner medium". It is not a solvent for the paint per-say but a thinner version of the carrier for the paint. It thins the paint without diluting the strength of the bond. Right not Vallejo is my new go-to paint although it's taking a while to figure out what colors are a good match. Fortunately they have close to 700 to choose from.

[kondor]

I invested in a lot of Vallejo when getting back into modeling because of the convenience of the dropper bottles. However I'm not really a fan as the adhesion, durability, brushing, and spraying isn't as good as Tamiya. Plus I love the smell of Tamiya paint. Tamiya and Tamiya thinner are my go to, but I'm hoping to finally getting around to trying out some Tru-Color.

[peteski]

I invested in a lot of Vallejo when getting back into modeling because of the convenience of the dropper bottles. However I'm not really a fan as the adhesion, durability, brushing, and spraying isn't as good as Tamiya. Plus I love the smell of Tamiya paint. Tamiya and Tamiya thinner are my go to, but I'm hoping to finally getting around to trying out some Tru-Color.

Tru-Color are excellent (old-school) paints, but also don't forget Scalecoat II. Another great old-school (smelly) paint!   

[SkipGear]

I know a lot of people on here are stuck on solvent based paints but after I learned how to paint acrylics, I will never go back. The detail that a a good acrylic paint retains is far superior to any solvent based paint.

I have not seen any adhesion issues with Vallejo yet, but I will admit so far most everything has been single color paint job on containers for my son. I haven't taped over another color yet so I haven't had a chance to encounter any paint pulling up.

[Chris333]

I like Vallejo. Aren't they some sort of resin paint?

[peteski]

I know a lot of people on here are stuck on solvent based paints but after I learned how to paint acrylics, I will never go back. The detail that a a good acrylic paint retains is far superior to any solvent based paint.

I am not "stuck" on anything. I simply prefer the solvent-based paints. I also own probably over 200 bottles of those paints (from multiple manufacturers), so I don't have a need for a change.  I also own a small selection of water-based paints and I use them for certain applications (like weathering).

But if you are comfortable with the water-based paints, then all the power to you.

Also, calling all water-based paints "acrylic" is a peeve of mine. There are plenty of solvent-based paints out there, based on acrylic resin.  But for some reason hobbyists seem to have adopted that incorrect terminology.

[nkalanaga]

Peteski:  I also like Scalecoat, either I or II.

[Chris333]

So what does acrylic mean? Has plastic in it?
https://www.liquitex.com/us/knowledge/what-is-acrylic-paint/