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  • Member since
    August 2012
Time between coats
Posted by JMorgan on Saturday, August 17, 2013 3:46 PM

How long is enough time between coats when airbrushing? I usually give it about ten minutes.

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Saturday, August 17, 2013 4:00 PM

Are you talking about coats of the same colour or a different colour. If the former, I tend to do it all in one go. If its an aircraft, I leave the undercarriage doors off. So I will paint the model, then the doors and then go back to the main part.

If the latter, then I normally leave for 2 days especially if I am masking.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:53 AM

For the same color I will go back in as little as two to three minutes. So I can put on several coats with one airbrush session. If the color is used on several surfaces, by the time I get a coat on all surfaces, I can go back and put on another (and maybe even a third).

If I am changing color then it depends on whether I am doing flats or gloss, and whether I have to do any masking.  I use enamels, which dry quite slowly, especially the gloss enamels.  I let flats dry several hours, gloss overnight unless I need to mask, and then I let it dry for at least 24 hours even in my heated drying box.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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    August 2012
Posted by JMorgan on Sunday, August 18, 2013 4:31 PM

Thanks for your advice!

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