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I can't seem to find a definitive answer about if you are able to use both army painter and Citadel paint through a airbrush. If so what are you able to use to thin the paints with to give a good even coat.

If you think anything enough, you can shoot it through an airbrush.
Just learn that best vicosity and you are fine.

Army Painter and Citadel are perfectly fine as long as you thin them down properly. Citadel Air may not need extra thinning but I would still do it just to be safe.

Finding the right thinness will take some trial and error. When you're learning it's good to experiment with small amounts before mixing up larger batches of paint. Better to err on the side of too thin rather than too thick, because too thick can clog up your airbrush and every experienced airbrush user can tell you how much of a headache that is.

Two tricks I've learned in my years of airbrushing with a gravity-feed Iwata HP-CS:

1. Pour thinner into the cup first and spray some of it through your airbrush BEFORE adding paint. This way you'll ensure that liquid is already flowing smoothly inside your airbrush before you start thickening it up with paint pigment.

2. Vallejo Flow Improver is your friend. A few drops of that before mixing in the rest of my thinner/paint pretty much solved all my spray issues. Flow improver keeps paint from drying up and collecting inside your airbrush as you're spraying, especially during longer airbrush sessions. Keeping everything "wet" on the inside also makes it straightforward and easy to clean your airbrush with Windex or airbrush thinner when you're done.

Don't do this, but I found out about it on here....

I use only Citadel paint with my airbrush. I mix it will a dribble or two of car screenwash. A half-pipette of wash for every 2-3 of paint.

I've been using Vallejo Airbrush Flow Improver with citadel and army painter paints and its been working great.

 slave.entity wrote:
Army Painter and Citadel are perfectly fine as long as you thin them down properly. Citadel Air may not need extra thinning but I would still do it just to be safe.

Finding the right thinness will take some trial and error. When you're learning it's good to experiment with small amounts before mixing up larger batches of paint. Better to err on the side of too thin rather than too thick, because too thick can clog up your airbrush and every experienced airbrush user can tell you how much of a headache that is.

Two tricks I've learned in my years of airbrushing with a gravity-feed Iwata HP-CS:

1. Pour thinner into the cup first and spray some of it through your airbrush BEFORE adding paint. This way you'll ensure that liquid is already flowing smoothly inside your airbrush before you start thickening it up with paint pigment.

2. Vallejo Flow Improver is your friend. A few drops of that before mixing in the rest of my thinner/paint pretty much solved all my spray issues. Flow improver keeps paint from drying up and collecting inside your airbrush as you're spraying, especially during longer airbrush sessions. Keeping everything "wet" on the inside also makes it straightforward and easy to clean your airbrush with Windex or airbrush thinner when you're done.

This. This. this.

A few drops flow improver, then paint and water 1:1

Airbrushing citadel paints is fine. The base paints are a bit tricky to get a good consistency though. Not impossible but they have a narrower range of thinning over which they’ll spray happily.

I thin citadel paints with Vallejo airbrush thinner rather than water. When I tried water it was easy to end up with something that would pool very easily.