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Golden airbrush paint...any hints?

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  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Saturday, March 20, 2004 10:04 AM
John has some good points there, and priming to give the paint some tooth to adhere to is excellent advice.
Which Golden's colors are you using as they make two that can be used for airbrushing.
Are you using the Golden Airbrush Acrylics or the Golden Fluid Acrylics?
I know that a very gifted airbrush artist that I used to know and who recently passed away used Golden's exclusively for her automotive and motorcycle airbrush artwork, so they obviously adhere to metal well so plastic should be very similar. If you care to see what she did with Golden's check her web page that her husband still maintains. http://www.ginag.com/
There is a Tech Page at Golden's web site which may also be of help here:
http://www.goldenpaints.com/technicaldata/techintro.php

Mike

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  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:48 AM
Golden airbrush paints are for illustrations and fine art. As far as I know they don't have the proper binders to use on plastic without being delicate. You can see if they have an additive for the paint. I've had the same problems with liquidtex. Here are some things- to try make sure your model is primed or has a base coat and you can spray matte finish before using the golden paint as this will give more of a tooth for the paint to stick to. Try experimenting on some plastic.
John
  • Member since
    November 2005
Golden airbrush paint...any hints?
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 20, 2004 2:58 AM
Hey guys...

I've had some bad luck with my golden airbrush paints being super fragile, chipping easily etc... Almost like it just won't hang on like it should. I want to use them....but as of now, I'm working on a 0 for 5 basis.

Any hints?

thanks
-jonathan
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