Rust-O-Leum Spray can paints "safe for plastic"

The saga continues

I have always liked some of those "late near the end of the war" photos of ME-262's and HE-162's in primer like paint or hastily applied paint jobs.

I accidentally think I somewhat accomplished it !!

By using those Rust-O-Leums I sprayed to the top I took one of those generic 1 inch wide all purpose cheapie paint brushes one buys at Menard's, have it very slightly moistened in "odorless Mineral spirits" and after a few light passes of 2 of the colors I gently "streaked" with the brush and "squiggled" it . The paint blends in and it has that"look" of hastily painted night fighter using those grays.!!

I will do my best to get up to speed with "photobucket" and learn how to post as I would like some critiques and feedbacks.

Thanks everyone!!

I have a can of the spray paint. I tested it on an old plastic chair rotting in the garage. The old piece of junk looks kind of nice now.

As promised I picked up the 2 types of  Rust-O-Leum flat blacks. One was a primer the other a flat black primer-paint. ALL under the "safe on plastic" label.

This morning I sprayed the bottom half of the 1/32nd ME262B nightfighter and initial coat lightly "dusting" it on and it looks really sharp!!!!!

More later

IExactly!!

I've been dusting light coats, it dries quickly and looks good. Last night I applied one of my enamels(hand painted using acryllic lacquer thinner to thin the paint) over one of the planes i had sprayed from the Rust-O-Leum can and it came out really nice. Acryllic Lacquer thinner(ALT) is very powerful stuff you don't need a lot to thin it. I thinned it to a 2% like milk consistency and brushed it on. What i like about ALT is that there are no brush marks it lays down that well.

Today I plan to pick up the Rust-O-Leum camo black and a can of the Primer black to use on the belly of that Revell 1/32 ME-262 2 seater nightfighter. I remember a master modeler who was in our club years ago telling us to mix up blacks because you need to have various shadesof black, even black-gray, so your model doesn't look like a "black hole".

Take care everyone

I'm trying to learn how to post pictures I know it has something to do with Photobucket.

 I have used the 2x Primer on the last 3 planes I have been working on.  I found if you make quick passes it doesn't go on so thick.  Unless its one color or the antifouling paint on a ship bottom, don't know if I would use the colors, I just prefer the airbrush.  But the primer really speeds things up cause it dries quick and one less airbrush cleaning session.

For a weathered tank, they should be perfect.  :-)

I think for the purposes at this time -just painting a lot of the "old" kits I gave my son to build it has a pretty close look . As you say it's not stellar.

At this time it comes close and we are weathering them up for Desert and Winter looks.

Now that the weather is heading into the upper 50's this weekend I plan to use the Airbrush with those Vallejo acryllics and also break out some of my enamels. But I find the Rust-o-leums great "cheaters" to use as it goes on and drys fairly quickly.

Thanks I love the feedback.

It's fine on plastic, and while I have had decent luck getting good finishes out of a spray can, the finish with this paint was less than stellar.  While being safe on plastic, it _really _ bonds to the plastic.  I had finish issues on an old AMT 65 Riviera, and while I could get the top coat off with ease, the underlying Rust-O-Leum was not removable no matter what stripping media you used (and I used them all).  

Gene Beaird,

Pearland, Texas

I use their classic oxide red for the bottoms of ships.

Recently I moved. My spray booth is still in storage but i got the models out. Went down to Ace and picked up gloss black, flat black, oxide and white. On the driveway over newspaper, know what I mean?

It's not really very good paint, but it's ok for blasting stuff like ship hulls.

Fine on plastic AFAIK.

Safe for plastic and good for me.

I was satisfied with their teracotta for anti-slip coating and it went on nicely straight from the can.

I've used Rust-O-Leum primer and flat white with positive results.

Me too but since have never been able to get any kind of decent job from a rattle can regardless of type of paint of material being covered (just one of those mysteries of life I guess) I decant and spray thru the AB.  Goes down just fine.

I've used Rust-O-Leum primer and flat white with positive results.  For small items it comes on too thick.  Yet for my Corellian Freighter (Millennium Falcon) build they worked great.

Haven't seen those yet. Sounds promising.