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Painting Tamiya kits
Posted by Racemodeler28 on Thursday, March 19, 2015 4:06 PM
I have recently put my first ever Tamiya kits together and the paint wrinkled all over. I call it finger printing bcuz that's what it looks like but I've washer primed and painted the same way for many other brands. I use mostly duplicolor paints and always duplicolor primer so I'm kind of shocked. I've had to wet sand for hours to save them. Ideas?
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Posted by DUSTER on Friday, March 20, 2015 9:33 AM


No real idea, but from  your report this is  usually the result of lacquer over enamel or incomplete cleaning of mold release oils.

But as you  said you washed and primed, so could the color coats have been mix of lacquer and enamels or acrylics and enamel ?  or any of the clear coating? 

Good Luck on a solution

Steve

Building the perfect model---just not quite yet  Confused

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Friday, March 20, 2015 10:05 AM

Here's my thought - with so many great hobby paints out there, why duplicolor? I'm stumped on what happened to your paint. The only thing I can think of is 1 - not letting the paint dry and cure longer before handling or 2 - spray painting in cold environment.

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Posted by CN Spots on Friday, March 20, 2015 11:53 AM

Sounds like crazing.  Try painting something else the same way as your model.  Same time between coats.  It's not the model or the primer would have acted up first.

Here's a link to a site that lists common paint issues and their causes.  It's geared more towards automotive paints but the principals are the same...

www.painterssupply.net/paint_troubleshooting_guide.html

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Posted by mississippivol on Friday, March 20, 2015 4:32 PM

I've had that happen in cold weather, especially if I left them out to dry in the cold, or the paint got through the primer to the plastic and crazed it.

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Posted by BlackSheepTwoOneFour on Friday, March 20, 2015 6:38 PM

Believe it or not, I've had it happen on a warm spring day with a semi light breeze blowing. Yeah, I got a nice coat but the cool wind messed up the coat of paint as it was drying.

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Posted by Racemodeler28 on Sunday, March 22, 2015 1:19 AM
I also wondered why when I put large decals on with setting solution I still end up with small blothches or wrinkles almost like water spots on them.
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