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Markk
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Hello, my name is Mark & I'm having a heck of a time thinning paint as a newbie. Have a Vega 2000 airbrush using the .3mm tip & needle using various air pressures to try to make it work. I first tried Spectra Tex opaque jet black thinning with distilled water (2oz with .6oz distilled water). I got somewhere with it but tip dry became a factor due to what I'm guessing comes from living in the southwest part of America where it's dry. I then started looking at Createx paint & it's additives due to seeing them on AirBrush.com. So I tried transparent black with illustration base at approx 50/50 mix & it clumped up after a couple of moments of thinking this stuff is great. When ordering the paint & illustration base there was another option also ordered of retarder which might help but I have not touched it so it's still an option. The illustration base is the constancy of milk & Createx claims there are no issues when the paints are thinned to "skim mild" consistency. The illustration base is already the constancy recommended. So how do you thin paint with it? Thanks to anyone for posting after reading this, Mark.
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