Waiting time between layers of same paint and colour

'Fraid so, for the last week. Tapering off, now—I hope!

Triarius wrote:

Something I should have mentioned (sorry, I'm on muscle relaxants ):

Flexeril?   

Something I should have mentioned (sorry, I'm on muscle relaxants ): Always follow any directions on the paint container about recoating times. Some paints have a time window.

thanks everybody,

The question was not related to masking as I always put the model away for at least 12 hours in a dry room before I start masking. I learned this lesson the very hard way in the past ;-(

I am using gloss acrylics from Testors and Tamiya for a little bit of artwork (special request from my lady ;-)). So if I read this all well I have to wait until the paint feels dry and not tacky anymore before I can put over the next layer.

The caveat about recoating applies more to masking. Acrylics cure slowly, so they develop adhesion slowly. As has been said above, you can recoat flats as soon as they are tack-free, or even as soon as they no longer look wet. For gloss acrylics, especially Tamiya and Gunze, you should definitely wait until they are tack free, then another half hour. If the humidity is high, wait a full hour after they are tack free

Tamiya Flats can be sprayed over again pretty fast, although I'd let them dry for a couple hours at least if you need to do masking.  I generally let them sit over night if that is the case.

Tamiya gloss paints can take much longer to dry, such as Metallic Gray.  In those instances I give it a day.

Depends on the size of hte models and number of assemblies to be painted.  Usually by th etime i get to the end of a larger model I can start the next layer right away or put down one assembly then start the next one.

Are you talking about flat colors or gloss?

For flat acrylics like Tamiya I wait maybe 5-10 minutes between coats and have had no problems whatsoever.