I've used tube acrylics in my airbrush, with the best results (so far, anyway) from Liquitex products. The really big thing is getting the viscosity right; it's easy to get the paint too thin. Liquitex sells a bottle of "airbrush medium" just for this purpose. You mix in a quantity of this to give the paint some "stickiness", and you finish thinning out the mix with water.

I like the water clean-up idea. It also doesn't bring all of those VOs to the party, which is a good thing if you have to spray around pets or other sensitive living things.

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I've been following a thread on TRF about a Nike Hercules build. The builder, stymye, uses Createx acrylics in an airbrush. He typically uses Krylon white for the base color. His models look incredible. He also has a link to a photo server with lots of examples of his work. I bought a Createx set of 6 colors tonight at Hobby Lobby, using the 40% off. The paints sell for $3.00 a bottle, so pretty reasonable, considering they are pretty good sized (2 oz. I think?). Createx also sells airbrush paints for car detailing. Acrylics sure have come a long way. I asked him for details, He uses clear coat to seal colors, before masking and painting another color.

Here is the link. This mostly shows his work on rivets, but check out his website for his painting work ("pics" link in his sig).
http://www.rocketryforum.com/showthread.php?t=42132

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If I'm not going to use an airbrush do I still have to use the Airbrush medium?

You'd need to look through the other additives in the acrylics section of the craft store to see what is recommended. This additive is intended for spraying the paint, as it has to be thinned down considerably more than you would for simply brush-painting. I'm not a "brush & canvas" person, so I don't usually look in this section myself except for grabbing some color and this one bottle.

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