The right thinner decides the outcome of a spray session as much as the paint does. Too thick and the surface goes grainy, too thin and it runs, and the wrong solvent will curdle the pigment into flakes in the cup before anything reaches the model. The products here are sorted by the paint they belong to, from acrylic media through enamel and lacquer solvents to odourless spirit for oil work, and the shelf also covers airbrush cleaners, degreasers and brush soaps.
Mr. Color Leveling Thinner - ředidlo 400ml
14.20 €
Airbrush Cleaner 250ml
6.36 €
Acrylic Paint Thinner X-20A (250ml) - Ředidlo na akrylové barvy
6.76 €
Mr. Color Thinner - ředidlo 400ml
12.40 €
Mr. Color Leveling Thinner - ředidlo 110ml
5.40 €
Enamel Paint Thinner X-20 (250ml) - Ředidlo na syntetické barvy
7.56 €
Every binder wants its own solvent. Acrylics take water or an acrylic medium, enamels white spirit or a dedicated enamel thinner, lacquer ranges their own lacquer thinner. Getting it wrong usually shows as pigment flocculating into visible flakes. If you are not sure what type a bottle is, check its category in model paints before mixing anything into it.
Some thinners include a retarder that stops paint drying on the needle, which is worth having in a warm dry room and whenever fine transitions are being sprayed with airbrush equipment.
A cleaner is more aggressive than a thinner and exists to dissolve dried residue. Flush after every colour, not only at the end of a session: dried paint in the needle channel will ruin the next model's finish.
Before spraying, mould release and finger grease have to come off the surface. For brush maintenance there are soaps that wash pigment out of the ferrule and bring the point back, and they belong next to your model paint brushes.
Before any colour goes on, an even ground from surfacers and primers saves more paint than careful thinning ever will.
