Mixing medium for painting with airbrush

[ElDuchen]

I am learning the ropes of using an airbrush and tweaking my mixing rate of paint:water. I find that I get a water splash when I first start painting. I can work around that by spraying away from the model at first, but I was wondering what do people use as a mixing medium when prepping paint for their airbrush?

[frommage]

Good old cheap Windex...Man this product has thousands of uses, it keep my wet pallet from producing molds and It also clean most of my home!!!

[RebelGrot]

Good old cheap Windex...Man this product has thousands of uses, it keep my wet pallet from producing molds and It also clean most of my home!!!

I keep hearing a lot of good things about Windex. Does anyone know if it's available in the UK or, if not, what the UK equivalent might be?

[beno]

I never got round to even looking for windex here in the uk - depsite hearing great things about it! I picked up a big bottle (half litre I think) of Tamiya thinners, probably pretty similar stuff in the end. Works fine, but then again I find water works ok as well for most of the paints I use - Vallejo - which seem to have some solvent breaking the surface tension in them anyway.

[Mistress of minis]

Any blue window cleaner (without ammonia!!) will do fine, Windex is just hte brand name and Ive had the generic stuff do the same things.

Rubbing alcohol (I believe its 'medicinal spirits' in the UK) also works well and makes the paint dry even faster(a bonus in humid areas- but not in dry areas where it can dry before it even hits the miniature!).

[ElDuchen]

For the moment, my main paints are all Citadel paints. What ratio of windex to paint do you find works for you? With the water, I am at 3:1 wateraint, which may be part of my problem, but if I don't thin it enough my compressor won't push the paint through.