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All Righty ... What's on the bench today?

Oh about 7-8 years ago I bought some AKAN acrylics and most of them haven't been opened yet so I figured it was time to dig out the ones I wanted and play around a bit. First thing the stuff was like tar in the bottom of the bottle once I opened it up. What to do........the first time I tried using this paint, and trying to figure out what the best thinner to use, I ended up going with Tamiya's X20A, which really wasn't giving me the results I wanted. And now that I needed to try to wake it up and had nothing to lose, after another internet search I settled on distilled water to add to it. This worked very well on thinning it in the bottle. Ya, way better results :good: Not even trying to do a decent freehand and I'm quit pleased with what I can do with the stuff :D
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And under a coat of MM SemiGloss
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Won't discuss the missing fiddly bit that didn't go in before things got closed up :bang head
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But otherwise quite happy how this is coming together
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:drinks
 
You can get them from Linden Hill Imports, Akan Makes both Acrylic and Lacquer based paints. From what I understand the Lacquer paints are similar to Tamiya/Gunze and thin well with Mr.Leveling thinner, anyone I'm aware of who has commented on them seems to like those ones. The acrylics are good as they thin well with water, as I now know, and cleaned up easily with alcohol.
 
Nice work guys! You are really making excellent progress.

Yesterday I decaled six models; hoping to do more tomorrow. Pics forthcoming in my Manufacturing thread...
 
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