Thread: Do you still need to reduce createx?

I have seen several post about createx colors needing to be reduced.
If I go to a hobby store and buy createx airbrush colors do they need to be reduced? But Createx says:

"The new colors feature an advanced suspension/thickening system which allows the colors, when shaken, to thin out to a very flowable consistency (this process is called pseudo-plasticity). Once it is sprayed out onto the surface the product sets up to sit slightly on top of the surface requiring fewer coats to be applied while offering a brighter color. Due to this revised consistency some air pressure adjustments may need to be lowered (about 40-45 psi is usually sufficient) to compensate for these flow advancements. "

Honestly,

I haven't shot enough to know if its "shooting like a dream" or "very picky to shoot"

Ok, all I can say is WOW.

When I got my brush, I signed up for the member videos, articles etc.
I watched the beginning video's. Don recommended getting golden or I think com-art so you wouldn't have to fight paints at the same time you were learning. So I went online and ordered some golden from Dixie. In the meantime I went to hobby lobby and bought some createx.

I just got the golden today, and wow what a difference. I now understand the consistency it should be, yes I need to reduce the createx.

Now I understand why it was taking so long to clean my brush, do color changes etc.

I'm also relatively new to trying to get into serious AB work. My goal is to develop my skills enough to be able to put my own designs on my Harley. In answer to this post while rather old is what I have discovered in the last 60 days. It's not if you need to reduce Createx, but what you use to reduce it with. It's water based so the first thought is use water...wrong!, Use other Createx mediums like Wicked W100 or Illustration base to help flow and slow tip dry. That tip in it's self will elevate your skills in the paint control you'll gain.

It's great that you have discovered the Golden Airbrush Colors, they, and paints like them spray wonderfully, but keep in mind that you CAN'T thin all paints down to that consistency (and still expect them to work).
With Createx's history on paint viscosity, you have to understand that their levels of viscosity have been all over the place. They would vary from color to color, batch to batch, and would change quite a bit over time and storage conditions.

For the artist, we would try*to take what ever was coming out of the bottles and reduce/thin it down to an even consistency between the colors we were using, and get it as thin as we could without it losing it's adhesive bonding capability, or without losing too much opacity. For me, more often than not that consistency ended up being about the same as cream (at the best of times), but sometimes closer to something like catsup.

If you over reduce the paint it will spray more easily, but you have reduced the bonding agents within the paint so much that the paint tends to bond so poorly that when you go to wash the garment, helmet, etc., that a large portion of the paint job washes away with the rinse water. And that is with the paint job being heatset as per instructions.