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Acrylics on Polyethelene.

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  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Monday, January 4, 2010 11:56 AM

Milairjunkie

apart from adhesion and scuff resistance issues, i would imagine that you biggest problem will be the flexibility of sled being painted, it looks like a hollow moulding, and the chances are that no matter what breed of paint you use, unless it has plasticiser in it it will crack and shatter as soon as you put your$1***$2on it.

I agree with this. They do airbrush skis and snowboards and such that flex a lot but they use Urethane paints like House Of Kolor on those which are very expensive.

You might want to give Dave Monnig at Coast Airbrush a call. He would know a lot more about it than anyone on here.

http://www.coastairbrush.com/categorypage.html

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  • Member since
    October 2007
  • From: Scotland
Posted by Milairjunkie on Monday, January 4, 2010 7:26 AM

apart from adhesion and scuff resistance issues, i would imagine that you biggest problem will be the flexibility of sled being painted, it looks like a hollow moulding, and the chances are that no matter what breed of paint you use, unless it has plasticiser in it it will crack and shatter as soon as you put your$1***$2on it.

  • Member since
    December 2008
  • From: Goffstown, NH
Acrylics on Polyethelene.
Posted by New Hampshire on Sunday, January 3, 2010 5:39 PM

This actually does not have anything to do with scale modeling, but perhaps someone can help me.  I own one of these sleds, which are made of polyethelene.  I want to airbrush something onto it, and since I own a wide range of Tamiya acrylics I would like to go that route rather than buy up a bunch of laquer based paints for such a small project.  Now obviously I realize this means I will probably have to prime with a laquer based product.  So now for the questions:

1: I will lay down a matte clear base using Krylon (so that the blue sled color shows through).  Since I only know this works on polystyrene do you think, as long as I don't go crazy, the polyethelene will be fine also.  by that I mean do you think I will melt the plastic?

2: After I am done spraying the acrylic colors, and after appropriate dry time, I will spray again with clear to seal the acrylic.  How durable do you think this will be?  Obviously I don't think it is going to withstand high wear, but do you think it will withstand my fat bottom rubbing on it? Big Smile

3: If the acrylics just are not going to cut it, even with the laquer primer and sealing coat should I just suck it up and use laquer based paints?

Brian

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