Airbrushes II

A follow up question:

Do airbrushes only operate with acryclics? Seems to me that they'd work
on
alkyd (oil) based paints also (like the Humbrols) if they were thinned a
bit
with (surprisingly) Paint Thinner. You'd have to clean them up with
thinner,
but unless there is some part of the mechanism subject to damage from
oil
based paints or thinners, then they should work too... shouldn't they?
<Ignorant as I am, I have no idea.....>

Unrelated question:

I have found brake fluid reasonably good for stripping most paint off of
pewter figures (a big thanks to the list for the suggestion) and not too
toxic to work with. However, I'm wondering if it will work on resin, if
it
will damage the resin, and if it doesn't work or will damage resin, what
works well for stripping a resin model of paint? 

Thanks again. It's nice to have such a wide variety of advice. ;)

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