Question about spraying laquer

by "coming out like cotton candy" I mean ... have you ever been to the fair or somewhere where they have the cotton candy machines? and the whole thing is just a whirring while they twirl the cone thing around it and those strands of dry cotton candy appear on it?

My paint was those dry strands of cotton candy shooting over my model... or if you prefer to relate it to silly string that's ok too...

I've never seen or heard of that one. Hmmm, odd. I don't really know what might cause that. Did you try cleaning it all out, letting it set long enough to really dry, then spraying again? That way it might give you some perspective, see if it will repeat. All I can say is try eliminating some variables one at a time and see what happens each time. That is a very very strange thing to me.

me too!!! haha I dont know if you saw it in other threads but I have been making this for my dad... it's been at least a month now.. slowly doing this, changing that... I FINALLY got ready for the paint (which I thought was enamel) and it said laquer... I said "OK... no big deal, thin it like enamel and I'm ready to go!"

Well not so friend... cotton candy I tell ya... fluffy lil wisps of it all over this model... I got it off but the orange peel is what bothers me...

In this stage of my modelling... I would rather buy a new kit and do it over with the experience I had from the first one under my belt, than strip it... It seems to be better for me that way,,,, the second time I know ALL the pitfalls in advance!!

Oh yeah and airbrush was clean... only sprayed acryl through it before and cleaned with Tamiya thinner till it sprayed clear... even took the thing apart once after several sprays and it was pure metal, no paint buidup in it... so think that was ok... and it sprays fine since then, enamels and acrylics both.. this only happened with the laquer...

Anyway, I think I am narrowing it down to not thinning enough... hence the having to up the pressure and volume of paint to get it to flow right......

Thanks tho!!!

What did you thin it with? I thin my enamels with laquer thinner and have no problems, but I wonder if you thin a laquer with enamel thinner..... I wonder if that is the root of your problem?

no;... thinned it with laquer thinner... I thought the same thing... but again, the way it blew out the first few strokes I think it was a flow/viscosity thing...

to me sounds like its too hot , did you primer first?

QUOTE: Originally posted by Themage to me sounds like its too hot , did you primer first?

yeah, did that... in fact the stuff was coming out of the airbrush like cotton candy... before it hit the model even... thats why the comment about silly string up there, just poofed out and landed on the fuselage.. really wierd.

See if you can get a bunch of it to stick to a narrow cardboard funnel.

QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900 I was spraying some MM Laquer Chevy Engine Red on a Helicopter (first time spraying laquer) and at first it was coming out like cotton candy and sticking to the fuselage...

Model Master lacquer?
The only Model Master lacquers that I have seen are the Metalizers, not colors.
Are you sure you didn't mix lacquer thinner in MM Acryl? [:0]
That would probably react in the way you are describing.

Mike

yeah there's a new group of Testors lacquers. It's already in Hobbytown. Chevy Engine Red is one of them. I haven't used them yet because I'm waiting until they do a "new formula" version of that too after they iron out whatever problems it probably has.

QUOTE: Originally posted by maddafinga See if you can get a bunch of it to stick to a narrow cardboard funnel.

Hmmmm I could be on to something... this could be a whole new career op... "a carnie" I can see it now... the cotton candy man... that'd be quiet a starting place!

Mike, David is right, this is the first time I notcied these particular colors.... the chevy red is the (or very near to) madder red which is the color of the HH-65 I was spraying. I allllmoooost got the acryl version but thought it would look better in laquer.... and in most places it looks GREAT! it's the other 5% that is bad....

only good thing is after the strand incedent is I found respraying over the strands melted them back to paint as I hoped they would...

QUOTE: I allllmoooost got the acryl version

Acryl is gooood stuff from what I've seen so far. I've only recently put it through some tests, and I almost like it as much as enamel (after I let it cure for a decade).