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Enamel Paints
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 11, 2005 2:32 AM
hey all...
2 days ago i layed down the 2nd light coat (i think, im new 2 ab'ing!) of mm enamel on a chopper im working on. now the paint is dry to the touch, but it still smells of enamel.
Is the paint fully cured, and could i put a final wet coat on the model, or should i wait a few more days??

thanks in advance!!

ps the drying time with enamels is killing me!! im dying to take off the window masks and see if theres any bleeding!! Shy [8)]
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Posted by qmiester on Monday, April 11, 2005 6:24 PM
If I were going to do some more work on the present coat of paint (weathering, applying a coat of a different color, masking etc) then I would let it dry another day or so, because as long as it smells like paint, it's still not cured. However, if you've finished applying paint and are careful, you can remove the masking. In fact, some people recommend you remove the masking before the paint completly cures (i.e. dry to the touch).
Quincy
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 11, 2005 7:03 PM
Tominator, Try to be patient . I've had some masks on an airplane for a while now and still need one more coat too. I'm no expert but other modelers in my club who get excellent results with gloss enamels say to do a mist coat 1st then 10 min later follow up with a couple wet coats and thats it. Drys more evenly that way I guess. I'm not that good though and mine always need more coats.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 11, 2005 9:36 PM
thanks 4 the help fellas....
qmiester: ive heard that aswell, its to prevent lifting of the surrounding paint right?

ibeam: do they apply the wet coats 10min after each other aswell? ive been waititng a day or 2 between my coats
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 11, 2005 10:59 PM
I have a meeting tommorow night, I'll ask.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:00 AM
cheers mate... i hear diff things about waiting between coats...some say let it fully cur and others say one not long after the other....
thinking bout it i guess they both have their strong and weak points
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Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:59 AM
I've heard both as well... I usually do the 10-15 min gap between coats thing with flat paints, wait at least a day for glosses before the next coat.. then let it cure for 2 days or so...

I've had gloss enamel take 3 or 4 days to satisfy me that it had cured depending on atmospheric conditions... I'd be patient with it...

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by Archer1 on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:06 PM
tominator -

Enamals dry from the out side, in. They can take WEEKS to fully cure. Yes, they might be "workable" before that but model building is a game requiring as much patience as skill!

Hang in there!

Archer out
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 15, 2005 2:29 PM
As promised my friend in the club said all at once but with the YMMV caveat. Personally I don't know the answer but I did put my last coat of gloss blue/black on my fury and it came out really good. Thats after the first two coats cured for about a week and half. So as usual there is no definitive answer but thats modeling LOL!!!!
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Posted by qmiester on Friday, April 15, 2005 8:48 PM
tominator,

Yes, that's one reason plus any paint that has built up along the tape will tend to smooth out if it hasn't been cured.
Quincy
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  • From: The Hoosier State
Posted by plasticmod992 on Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:47 PM
I use enamels alomost exclusively, and I've ran into that delema myself. While, like others have mentioned, there's no definative answer- I normaly usually wait a day for flats and approx. 3 days for gloss enamels to cure before moving on. Happy modeling!
Greg Williams Owner/ Manager Modern Hobbies LLC Indianapolis, IN. IPMS #44084
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