Preval sprayer.
I have a tip about these little wonders.
For those who have never heard of it, a Preval sprayer is a precharged can that sits atop a glass jar and provides a spray nozzle much like those on a rattle can of paint. One can put whatever he chooses in the glass jar, screw the power unit with the provided straw on the top and spray the contents much like a regular spray can. Kind of handy.
Well, I had this bright idea to spray Future through one of these, seeing how my current project is so large. The rattle can base coat worked ok so I figured this would too. No sense loading the airbrush eight times.
I could stop here and just make everyone take a vow to never use one of these things for modeling purposes but maybe a reason why would help the gentle reader make his/her own decision.
I prepped the unit, loaded with Future. Made sure my subject was clean and free of dust and cat hair. Flipped on the spray booth, took aim and pressed the nozzle. In an instant there was a lake of Future right in the middle of the subject. All around the edge of said lake there were huge glops, for lack of better word, of clear product. I figured maybe I just needed to be a little more gentle on the trigger so I adjusted my aim and pressed lightly, being sure to move faster to avoid another lake of product. Nada. My lake got deeper and bigger. Not being one to give up easily I tried again. This is when the nozzle decided to freeze up, causing a mysterious stoppage. I should have taken that as a hint.
Somewhere in the midst of a white cloud Mother Nature would be proud to call her own, I finally came to my senses and decided the exercise was one of futility and gave up, relinquishing my new found idea and a small amount of pride topped off with a dose of humility, to the trash bin post haste. I did keep the glass jar.
I spent the next few frantic minutes trying to clean up the mess of random drips, (yup, drips) and runs from my beloved kit and table top. This was followed by another session of Future spraying with the airbrush. Much better.
While this little contraption may have it's use in applying copious amounts of brown Rustoleum to the picknic table frame or covering vast spanses of garage door panels with primer white, it has no purpose at all in the arsenal of the plastic modeler. Time will tell if I'll have to strip my kit of it's glossy acrylic casing and start over but either way take the advice of someone who tried it and avoid this idea like the plague should it ever come to you while you contemplate how to spray that 72nd B-52 in one pass.