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Ive worked my entire modeling life on Testors enamels and they worked fine thinned for airbrush.

EDIT I cannot say how it would work for acrylics. But if you had trouble with it maybe try a water based Gel of some type might get good results.

I was using the small bottles in my airbrush long before the Model Masters line ever came out. They worked fine. I found the Testors airbrush thinner works best for keeping the paint from being sticky. It seems to dry better with it.

A very convincing method Ive used on WWII aircraft for chipping flaking paint is to first paint the areas you want to chip with whatever color is under the paint. In the case of a WWII fighter plane that color would be aluminum. Next with tooth pics or xacto blade take tiny dabs of vasaline and plac...