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No... i definitely have acrylic... i guess it just worked with the flat black... I'll probly run up to hobby lobby and grab some of the thinner later... I thought i was buying thinner but I guess that's just a newb mistake of mine... Water didn't work right with the flat black though... and for a ho...

Turns out I bought dried paint solvent and not just thinner... those are like the same thing but to a different degree right? Well I tried the gloss black and used just a touch of saliva to thin it... AMAZING... looks like 10x better than it did before and then some flat black i painted now looks mu...

LOL... here's bumbling me dipping the brush straight into the jar after its been shaken/stirred...

ANy good recommendations for a homemade palette?

Also can you describe the thinning process a little more in detail? i.e. pull some paint out on a stick and then a few drops of thinner...?

Thanks for all the great replies! Its really encouraging... Well I found a comic book store locally that had some of the jap Bandai models. I picked up the lower level Sandrock gundam from Gundam Wing, the HG "Guntank" kit, and another lower level Bolt Gundam kit... they were all pretty mu...

Hi all, Just wanted to introduce myself to starship modeler. I have a few questions that I hope aren't too redundant so please bear with me... I haven't been having too much luck on finding resources on the basics of building styrene models. Google just leads me to a bunch of models for sale or to v...