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Make Your Own Acrylic Thinner

RichB

Well-known member
Found this on Cybermodeler, THINNER MIX.

Basic mix is 33% alcohol, 67% distilled water, acrylic retarder and flow improver add IAW bottle directions. Mix can be tweaked to meet your preferences.

Cheers,
Rich
 
I forgot where I got this. Tamiya Acrylic thinner is:
Water 54.9175%
Secondary Butanol 19.9700%
Normal Propyl Alcohol 14.9775%
3-methyl-3-methoxy Butanol 9.9850%
Additives 0.1500% (of which there may be more than one!)
 
Thanks Robert. Think I'll just stick with the big square bottles. I have enough trouble mixing paint as it is. (y)
 
Great idea for the folks that have difficulty to access it.

Questions though :

Would that be X-20 , X-20A or lacquer thinner ? Thinners are based on alcohol + some additives.

As for myself, I find the Gunze Mr.color leveling thinner to be superior to any of the thinners including other Gunze products. :D

They all however work with Tamiya Acrylics . Not sure about X-20 since I do not have any here.

Cheers, Christian B)
 
They all however work with Tamiya Acrylics . Not sure about X-20 since I do not have any here.

Cheers, Christian B)

X-20 is Tamiya's ENAMEL thinner (Tamiya has it's range of Enamel paints as well)

X-20A is theirs Acrylic thinner.

gr,Ron.
 
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