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Old 23-01-2009
Huw333 Huw333 is offline
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Default Airbrush and paint questions

I've never used an airbrush before (i've only used spray cans and large scale car spraying equipment) but its something i want to try so after much consideration and searching the forum for advice, i've ordered a AB130 from everythingairbrush. I now have a few questions!

I went to my local model shop yesterday to get some paint (i prefer to see the colour in real life before i buy it!), they only had pactra but i heard people on here talking about it so i bought a few colours so i can experiment.

One of the colours is a metal flake effect, it looks like a laquer with metal flakes on it - i was wondering if the nozzle on the AB130 would be too small for the flakes?

I also understand that the paint is not water-based so wil i need a special cleaner for the airbrush or can i use windowlene?

I also bought some thinner in case i needed it but i've heard that generally the waterbased paints dont need much thinning so is it necessary to do this with the pactra paint?

Thanks in advance
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