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Hey guys read a lot about the pros and cons of airbrushing thinning water based acrylics with isopropyl. What are your views on it?
I am expecting some proper airbrush thinner but have tried it and the results seem great.
So what are your experiences if any with it?

I use that to strip paint, it sounds like a bad idea.

Why would you not use water?

I'd really advise not to use IPO during the application of paint. Removal of paint? You betcha! It eats acrylic paint like a champ!

To thin paint use water at least. Airbrush thinner medium (Vellajo) if you want something a little higher.

To thin paint I use airbrush medium as well as Badger's drying retarder. The retarder helps stave off tip-dry.

Alcohol plays better with some acrylics than others. It may thin one brand just fine and turn another into a gooey mess (Vallejo paints don't generally like it). I use it to spot-strip paint (when I don't want everything gone, making a SG soak impractical), fix powdered pigment, and clean airbrushes and synthetic "beater" brushes, but that's about the extent of it.

If it's working for you, that's great, but I wouldn't personally recommend it. One of the main issues I had using things like alcohol, glass cleaners, etc. is that they're highly volatile. The same properties that make them great as glass cleaners (solvent that evaporates quickly, for a streak-free shine) tended to exacerbate tip-dry issues. I had slightly better luck using plain water, even better luck using water with some flow improver or a bit of Future alternative (Pledge FloorCare), and have now fallen completely in love with Vallejo's AB thinner.

I picked some up recently to use as a thinner and its been working pretty well. I've mostly been using acrylic craft paints and some gw paints and haven't had any issues so far. I pretty much used the recipe in this tutorial. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8k3BJC80IQ And it does smell remarkably similar to some old humbrol airbrush thinners i had as well.

A big part of the reason for the alcohol in thinning for airbrushing is in the nature of airbrushing itself, ie thinning a paint down so far to make it more transparent and then building a color up slowly to the level you need by repeated passes, you want the evaporation of the alcohol in that instance so the paint dries faster and stops/helps with spidering. Do 20 passes with a paint thinned with water alone and you have spiderleg city much easier. In miniatures its not so much of a need for that fast flash off so just use whatever you want/feel best using and getting the results you like, we all do things differently.