I'm slowly making the switch from enamel to acrylics, and I'm using PolyS for my aircraft modeling, which is what the LHS has. I also bought some MM acrylics for my son. He builds cars, and he wanted to paint his car gloss black. We were in hobby lobby, so I picked up the MM paint there.
Anyway- just a couple of questions.
One- any idea why the MM paint would "bubble"? I was using my a/b to put it on his car (well, he was using it), and every now and then, a "bubble would form in the paint- it would just sort of "open" up, leaving a small gap in the paint. I played with the A/B- changed thinning, air pressure, cleaned it- nothing helped. The odd thing was he later was brush painting, and it did the same thing. Anyone else seen this type of stuff from MM Acrylics? Is it an adhesion issue possibly?
On the PolyS- I'd never airbrushed it before, and it seemed fairly thin already, even after a thorough stirring. So I fired it through the A/B straight- just to see how it looked- and it went on perfect. Beautiful stuff- laid right down, dried up nice and looked like it was the molded in color practically. Was that just a thin bottle? Is that typical with PolyS?
I gotta say- I love the switch so far. No fumes!
Jon Bius
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