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  • Member since
    March 2013
Enamel paint spray pattern.
Posted by patrick206 on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 12:11 AM

I use good quality airbrushes, always faultlessly cleaned and performing well. Badger 100G and Anthem 155, Paasche VJR and Talon, etc. Using mostly MM flat military colors, I'm seeing a modest amount of "spattering" at the boundaries of camo color patterns. Easily corrected by going back over the affected places with a second light pass, shot into the color border that has the spattering visible. But still, I'd like to make the spotting tendency go away.

 

With Tamiya acrylic, thinned with whatever amount of distilled water is required, plus a bit of Liquitex or Golden flow control, I believe I see less of this tendency, the color boundaries just seem to fade, (or blend,) from one to the other quite easily and with much less, or no "spotting."

 

My question: Is there an enamel flow enhancer product, similar to Liquitex for acrylics? I sense there is a more fluid look to the sprayed acrylic pattern as it reaches the object, with the enamel having the slight dotted border of the spray pass. I typically apply at 12-15 psi, dual water separators, have tried numerous reducing agents and ratios, none seem to make a significant difference, relative to what I'm describing as spray pattern border spotting.

 

Anyone have any suggestions, please? Great forum and magazine, thanks.

 

Patrick   

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 12:09 PM

I'd play with your thinning ratios.  I usually find such spattering to be a sign I did not thin enough.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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