| Schogun | 07 Feb 2012 1:05 p.m. PST |
Bought some green Tamiya acrylic paint for an armored car. The paint dries incredibly quickly and leaves streaks. Finish is blotchy. I'm hoping a second coat improves the look. Any advice? |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 07 Feb 2012 1:13 p.m. PST |
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| taskforce58 | 07 Feb 2012 1:17 p.m. PST |
Tamiya paints are formulated for airbrushing. To brush paint they need to be thinned down and applied in multiple coats – 3 or even 4 coats are not unheard of. |
| Garand | 07 Feb 2012 1:23 p.m. PST |
Agree with the above. I use Tamiya paints almost exclusively in an airbrush, where they work incredibly well. Damon. |
bracken  | 07 Feb 2012 1:37 p.m. PST |
Like its already being said water it down abit and apply 3 or 4 thin coats, it took me awhile to get used to them ! |
| Scott MacPhee | 07 Feb 2012 1:41 p.m. PST |
They are indeed made for airbrushing. For brush painting, I would go with Vallejo. |
| MajorB | 07 Feb 2012 2:26 p.m. PST |
Never used Tamiya. All my paints are Coat d'Arms or GW (but I'm phasing out the GW). |
| Wargamer Blue | 07 Feb 2012 2:34 p.m. PST |
The whole Tamiya range come in spray paint cans. Every colour is available. If your painting armoured cars I would buy the spray paint. And the paint pots are a pain, but if you mix the paint with Tamiya Color Acrylic Paint Thinner you will have no problems at all. |
| Allen57 | 07 Feb 2012 2:41 p.m. PST |
Needs thinning. I had poor results using water. The thinner worked much better. |
| Patrick R | 07 Feb 2012 2:43 p.m. PST |
As said before it was designed for airbrushing. IIRC you should use rubbing alcohol to thin Tamiya paints. |
| Striker | 07 Feb 2012 2:49 p.m. PST |
My experience with the spray cans is that they shoot out a lot of paint, enough so that I don't like to use them on anything with fine detail like micro armor. They may have changed that since I haven't bought any in a while. |
| sunderland | 07 Feb 2012 3:03 p.m. PST |
You have to use either their thinner, or just some alcohol from the medicine cabinet. Either will work fine whether airbrushing or doing it by hand. Do not use water. |
| SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER | 07 Feb 2012 3:07 p.m. PST |
Send the Tamiya to me and switch to Vallejo. |
 Tacitus | 07 Feb 2012 3:37 p.m. PST |
stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir stir, then switch to vallejo |
| Super Mosca | 07 Feb 2012 6:06 p.m. PST |
Use the Tamiye thinner made for their paints. Thinning with water will cause problems. Kosta |
| John the OFM | 07 Feb 2012 6:51 p.m. PST |
This with isopropyl alcohol.
That's much cheaper than Tamiya thinner, and much better than water. Having said that, brush painting with Tamiya is extremely tricky. |
| (Expelled Member) | 08 Feb 2012 12:03 a.m. PST |
If you can't find Vallejo etc, and are stuck with what's commonly available in model shops, then try Gunge Sangyo instead, it's much better than Tamiya. The only Tamiya apints I use these days are their enamal sprays as undercoats on vehicles and aircraft. |
| Jay Arnold | 09 Feb 2012 12:02 p.m. PST |
I loooove the smell of Tamiya paint. |
