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I have a local custom painting business and I have totally abandoned all use off solvent based paint and switched to water soluble because even though I have a spray booth and wear a mask and gloves, I would still come in contact with the chemicals from time to time. I have become used to using the new acrylic paints and now would never go back. You do not have to wait for a week for the first color to dry before masking and spraying the second color. Many times I've painted the first color and two hours taped and painted the second color. Clean up is cheap, just use water. Most of the time the paint will spray right from the bottle without thinning, but if you want to thin the paint just use distilled water. Do not pour unused thin acrylic paint back into the bottle with the un-thinned paint. Only thin what you will use and throw away the unused. I have a small squirt bottle that I keep the thinning water in. If I want to thin the paint, I pour a small amount of paint into the airbrush color cup and a few drops of water into the cup and mix it right in the cup with a toothpick. I also use 3M masking tape but I just use the plane 3/4" wide stuff. I peal off a piece and stick in on a piece of styrene I keep around just for that purpose, and with a streight edge I cut a clean edge with a sharp knife. With the fast drying acrylics, just mist on the first few coats and avoid spraying under the edge of the tape. If you keep working around the model (right side, end, left side, end, top) by the time you back to the side you started the first mist coat will be dry. Keep doing that untill you get total coverage and give it a final smooth coat. By doing it that way you will not get any bleed under the tape edge if you don't get it all burnished down.
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