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  • Member since
    March 2005
Posted by philo426 on Friday, April 17, 2009 8:32 PM
I am not familiar with Auto Air Colors .Can you give me some info on them?Yes the paint is Acylic!
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    November 2008
  • From: Hatboro, PA
Posted by Justinryan215 on Friday, April 17, 2009 8:03 PM

the autoair colors are very grainy.  You must thin them before use, otherwise, those little chunks will appear.

You can even wet sand with no coarser than 800 grit between coats and then clearcoat, let it cure and wet sand with 1000grit and clear coat again...

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    June 2007
Posted by ronald305 on Friday, April 17, 2009 7:58 PM
 thank's for the advise about mixing the paint will try again may I ask the tamiya gold leaf it's a acrylic paint right also would like to say great job on the car again thank you 
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    March 2005
Posted by philo426 on Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:33 PM
It is real important to thoroughly mix the paint,especially with gold,silver and copper due to the metallic pigments in suspension.Use a toothpick or other clean wooden stick to mix it for a good minute or so,then thin it and mix again.Then you paint as normal.I painted this MPC '73 Caprice with Tamiya gold leaf and it came out great!  
  • Member since
    June 2007
need help painting metallic Gold
Posted by ronald305 on Thursday, April 16, 2009 6:52 PM

    I need help in painting metallic Gold, or what to do when tiny spec's show up during painting process,and also I have a moisture trap on my Iwata airbrush, Im tired of stripping the body over again, I would appreaciate any idears or suggestions-I almost forgot Im using a paint called auto-air colors it's waterbase.-thank you 

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