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And we have a winner! Enamel paint thinner. It took up a very small amount of acrylic, but not enough to ruin it. Rubbed it on with a Q-tip, wiped it off with the other end. Nice and clean, no residue and the excess thinner simply evaporated. I use enamels so rarely now that l totally forgot about t...

Nope, the paint has cured for two weeks and the slightest swipe of IPA took some of the paint off without touching the stickum.

Hmm, freezing...

Building a resin kit using Model Color and Tamiya acrylics. I masked off large areas with vinyl and prepared frisket film. The vinyl worked great, but l didn't notice until afterward that the frisket was a high tack. The result was areas of stickiness that cannot be removed by simply rolling or wash...

Yeah, that was my third thought.

Another way would be to measure out your mixing jar in marks of 10, 20, 25, 75, 100, etc. That way, you can pour an accurate amount much quicker.

The current Kotobukiya styrene kit l am working on calls for a number of paint mixtures with a variety of ratios. Example: 95% white, 3% neutral grey and 2% red brown. I will be airbrushing this acrylic mix on the kit. Problem is; how do you accurately portion out these amounts? My first thought wou...

Found a partial solution: hot soapy water. Softens the mask enough to scrape it off with a dental pick. Of course, it also pretty much removes the underlying paint, but I can touch that up.