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Krylon Home Decor Primer--bad mojo!

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  • Member since
    June 2006
  • From: Westerville, Ohio
Posted by Air Master Modeler on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:15 PM

Dave,

I DO feel your pain!!!! I have tried the Krylon H2O and I am in agreement with you... I HATED it! It dries with a very gritty and bubbly texture requiring major sanding between coats and afterwards to smooth it out. I have had some luck with the Wal Mart store brand acrylic white primer. It will dry with very little grittiness and easy to sand smooth with a finger nail buff pad.

The best primer and although somewhat expensive is the Tamiya L Fine white primer. Tamiya  sprays on and dries smoother than a baby's bottom! If I could afford it more often thats what I would use all the time.

Air Master   

Rand

30 years experience building plastic models.

WIP: Revell F-14B Tomcat, backdating to F-14A VF-32 1989 Gulf Of Sidra MiG-23 Killer "Gypsy 207".

  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: Baton Rouge, Snake Central
Posted by PatlaborUnit1 on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 1:14 PM

yes, recently I have had the displeasure to spray a couple of these newer Acrlic sprays.

 I'm TOTALLY unimpressed with them.  the H2O brand bubbles up just like this Home Decor stuff, so as you are applying it the finish is bubbling, and you do not get nice smooth coverage like we need.  However the paint is desinged for home use and not modeling use, so it would be accpeptable on other surfaces. I finished an award in yellow H20 gloss and that took several coats sanded in between to get acceptable results on a wood award.   Ill stick to my Lacquers...

David

 

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  • Member since
    January 2003
  • From: Peoples Socialist Democratic Republic of Illinois
Posted by Triarius on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:46 PM

Shock [:O]Ach! Mein Gott in Himmel! They've made an acrylic spray paint! I wonder what the shelf life is like.

For those of you who don't know: this has been a "Holy Grail" of the coatings industry for over twenty years.…

From David's post, maybe it still is…Sigh [sigh]

Ross Martinek A little strangeness, now and then, is a good thing… Wink

  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: Baton Rouge, Snake Central
Krylon Home Decor Primer--bad mojo!
Posted by PatlaborUnit1 on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 8:12 PM

Hi Everyone.
I like to experiment with primers and came across one I had not seen, so I got it and watned to share my experience with it.

This is Krylon Home Decor Durable Primer in a can that mimics (but is slightly smaller than) the typical Krylon light grey primer. Reading the label leads you to believe this will be a lacquer based cellulose primer, (except for the part about soap and water overspray removal).

I shot it on some cardboard and that seemed fine.   I sprayed this  on a series of figures in two light passes like I always do and found to my shock that the next morning the crap had dried like badly textured acrylic!  Apparently this IS a water based product ( I thought I felt drops of cold water on my skin as I sprayed, similar to the Krylon H20 series paints). When it dried it was a mass of ripples and puddling, not at all like the other primers I have used over the last 20 years. 

Anyway watch out for this product, it will not behave like our common primers we are accustomed to. It comes off easily with a soak in Ammonia (another clue to its acrylic foundations).  It may work well for groundwork, etc, but not for figures or for fine paintjobs.

Have a good one.

David

 

Build to please yourself, and don't worry about what others think! TI 4019 Jolly Roger Squadron, 501st Legion
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