Oven Dry!

i have used conventional ovens at home to dry paint, BUT i use the heat from the oven just as i turn it off. i dont switch the oven on while the model is inside. the electric drying oven is a good idea especially if you paint models that require a High gloss finish like cars..etc because oven drying prevents dust from settling into your model,thus no need for wet sanding etc. Thing here is the oven heat dries the paint before dust can settle.

Never tried one myself, neither have I tried a convential oven, Mom would have killed me. I did try my wifes food dehydrator though until she caught me LOL.

I'd be somewhat cautious depending on the type of paint you are using. Enamel paints emit flammable fumes (at a lesser extent than spraying) while drying. Don't know for sure if it would cause a problem. 

What I've always done since I was a kid...
I used a spare 2-1/2 gallon fish tank with a loose fitting piece of glass for a lid.
Put a 75 watt light bulb in one of those clamp-on silver funnel looking deals, and mounted it under the tank (a couple of inches away so the heat wouldn't crack the glass).
It helped speed up the drying time alot and kept the heat source away from the paint fumes.
My Dad would always joke with me when he came into my room - "Nice color fish, what is it?" "Oh Dad, you should know... it's a '57 Nomad fish!" 

Why not just make a simple one with a box and two 100 watt bulbs.
They would produce enough heat to warm the paint.

I've used a food desicator with a setable temperature control with great success. I do not recommend this for solvent-based paint systems until they have air-dried for 24 hours.

The problem with light-bulb systems is that there is no temperature control, heating is nonuniform, and they can be a fire hazard.

Thanks Ross.

Triarius wrote:

The problem with light-bulb systems is that there is no temperature control, heating is nonuniform, and they can be a fire hazard.

True, I couldn't really regulate the temperature. But a bulb placed under a small, slightly vented glass box with a 1/24th car body in it, in a temperature regulated room worked just fine. Not like I was baking a cheese cake or something. It raised the temperature enough to cut drying time in less than half. Of course a larger model would need a better way to distribute the heat, possibly a few bulbs spaced out.

Fire hazard? Well, if you don't plan it out careful.
I had my glass fish tank on a metal stand (angle-iron), all of which are not flammable. The venting fumes never caused a problem either.

Maybe I should of added that I didn't turn the light on until the day after painting the model.

Easy bake oven? =p

If you wanted to BUY a dring oven you could try one from Cabela's.  They sell them to dry and smoke meat.  They do run about US$100 and up.

Grizz

Also check out places like cooking.com and chefs.com, and similar sites. It pays to shop around for these.

There are several usenet groups, etc. on food preserving—check those out for recommendations.

Look at the one Rick made at the bottom of the page at this link.

This is all you need.

http://www.finescale.com/FSM/CS/forums/1/598761/ShowPost.aspx#598761

The first drying booth I ever saw was in one of Shep Paines books on painting figures.  It was simply a box with a door, the interior lined with aluminum foil, a light fixture at the bottom, a shelf with holes in it 2 or 3 inches above the light bulb and the top of the box had holes in it.  I figured if it was good enough for Shep, it was good enough for me, so I built one and used a 40 watt bulb - oil paints were completly dry in 24 hrs and never had any problems with softening or melting of plastic.