Airbrush advice...

[QuackingPlums]

I just got myself a new 'proper' airbrush/compressor having only ever used rattle cans on my shells until now. I used to have one of those Badger airbrushes with the compressed air cans before (about 20 years ago ) but that sucked - quite literally. Having never gotten any paint out the end of it I gave up and went back to rattlers!

Anyway, I've been practising a bit on spare bits of plastic, using some Createx/Auto Air that came with my airbrush and some Testors candy colours that I got from my LHS. The Createx is great, but I've noticed that the Testors paint tends to come out like candy floss after a while, and I have to clean it all down regularly. Is this normal?

Also, what cleaner should I use? I have a bottle of "Iwata Medea" that works fine with the Createx, but as soon as it touches the Testors it just turns into a stringy mess.

I'm about to place an order for some new colours - am quite happy with the Createx opaque and fluorescent colours so far but is there something better I should look for? I've read about the Spaz Stix chrome, which I'd like to try - who stocks this in the UK?

Cheers and TIA!