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I am about to paint a lexan body what ratio do I thin the paint
For using a airbrush
Neil

From Jonny Retro advices:
Your paint needs to have milk texture.
That works fine.

Thank
I have brought the wrong type of paint for the body
What would happen if I painted it with acrylic paint
Can I get PS paint in small jars or tins as I want one
Main colour and just a little bit of black for the grill
I know I can get a spray can for the colour
Neil

I found some infos o the net.
You can use for tamiya paints alcohol (alcool à bruler in French) 50/50 or tamiya thinner 1/3 2/3. 1/3 thinner (X20A) 2/3 paint

For small details you can use PS in a jar and use a pencil.

The matter if you use X or XF paint in place of the PC, is that the paint will not stick on the lexan. Each contact on the body will spark the paint.

Thanks
But that's the problem I can't find polycarbonate paint in jars only spray can

Sprays are easy for the lexan. For the details, use it in a jar and a pencil.

You mean spray it in a jar

Yep. small pressures directly in the jar and when you think have enough paint, you use a pencil to paint the details. If they are bigger details like grille, you can mask it, paint the mainn color, when it is dry, you can spray the grille. But be carefull and avoid to overspray too much. Especially if the main color is a light one. Another solution you can mask around the grille.

Tamiya "PC" paints (23ml glass jars, brush on paint for polycarbonate, thin with X-20A for airbrushing) were quietly withdrawn (I believe) sometime around 2007/2008 (see tamiyabase.com/...pened.html ) with limited stock available until 2012.

I've tried brush painting Parma "Faskolor" polycarbonate paints but didn't like them at all, even the supposedly "solid" colours were very light on pigment. I haven't tried airbrushing it, TBH I've gone right off polycarbonate bodies so haven't done much work on any recently, but despite the expense, Tamiya PS aerosols do stick very well, and are capable of some subtlety... this is not a great example, but in the right hands (or more practice) it could have worked