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| Subject: | Re: Acrylic face off - Vallejo vs. Tamiya |  |
| Date: | Jun 13, 2005 |
| From: | Rich D. | |
Owen, I use both Tamiya and Vallejo paints for painting armor. I have a few favorite Vallejo colors that I use for certain things and don’t use them for much else. Also, I tend to use Tamiya for a few more things and then use Gunze for most general purpose painting.
I guess you could say that Tamiya is alcohol based and Vallejo is water based paint. I have tried mixing the two and it does not work. Vallejo Model Air and Model Color are a bit fickle to spray as they tend to bead up due the effects of water tension. You need to add something like a small amount of soap to your thinner mixture to prevent them from beading up on the plastic. I use a thinner mixture of Vallejo thinner, a wetting agent, a retarder and distilled water. Also, Vallejo paint will dry in the tip of your airbrush when spraying, no matter what you do and you will have to clean your air brush tip every 2-4 minutes when spraying. You may ask why people put up with the problems of spraying Vallejo—Vallejo has great colors and has a very smooth, even and thin finish. The Vallejo paint bottles are great and make mixing paint simple. Vallejo works well with a paint brush.
Tamiya has been around a long time and there are lots of mixes available for most of the armor colors you would want to paint. Tamiya is better than Vallejo for airbrushing, but is hopeless for use with a paint brush.
My recommendation is to buy a few of each and experiment. Rich |
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