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What indicates a sprayable paint?

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Posted by oldermodelguy on Saturday, December 28, 2019 9:57 AM

JMorgan

What was your thinner blend?

 

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Posted by JMorgan on Friday, December 27, 2019 4:23 PM

What was your thinner blend?

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Posted by oldermodelguy on Friday, December 27, 2019 3:04 PM

I've shot Martha Stewart through my Paasche H and my Badger 200. No real tricks to report, I shot it over stynylrez primer and as I recall ( been a while since I've used it) thinned it with my own thinner blend I have posted the formula to here before. I remember it flowing out pretty nice, just back up the distance a little bit. My thinner has retarder in it though, without that maybe it doesn't flow the same. I used as base coat over primer before color coats on cars, it's pearl white paint that I have in that brand. I also shot it as bellie white on hand made fishing lures that get resin coated. Also over primer but on wood.

For brushing you can probably just cut it slightly with distilled water ( around here distilled water is in most grocery stores for $1.29 a gallon fwiw)... Just enough so it flows off the brush nice is all.

Folk Art sprays nice thinned with my thinner too. I have a couple other guys shooting that in a model car specific forum. And Apple Barrel as well. Don't put it in DecoArt though, it will gel up.

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What indicates a sprayable paint?
Posted by JMorgan on Friday, December 27, 2019 12:45 PM

Just got back from an almost disaster. I tried something new, airbrushing Martha Stewart Acrylic craft paint and it was runny and didn't dry like you would think. This brings me to my question of: what paints should modelers experiment with?What makes them usable as model paints--both brushable and airbrushable? This would save alot of wasted efforts. Thank you.

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