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Old 02-08-2007   #2 (permalink)
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I have not heard of Alcohol being used but it doesn't surprise me.

The trouble with a lot of non proprietary thinners, especially when airbrushing, is the different rates of evaporation. For brush and equipment cleaning you can generally get away with most things, even water with acrylics, so it doesn't matter but when thinning paint down for airbrushing if the thinners has a differrent rate of evaporation to the paint then the viscosity can vary as you do the painting.

You may well get away with it and I am sure there will be strong advocates for all sorts of differrent thinning liquids but the safest when spraying is to use the manufacturers own thinners as this is designed to evaporate at the same rate as the paint.
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