Latex Gloves

I do when I'm rattle can painting.

Only on occasion when painting, especially if I have to hold the model. I prefer the blue nitrile gloves. Latex are okay, but be sure to wash your hands once you have them on to wash away the talc or food starch used to keep them from sticking together...it can mess up a paint job. I purchase either by the box at a local safety equipment supply store.

In my opinion gloves are essential in building especialy when air brushing. It gives you a place to test out your paint flow and a paint smudge with the gloves looks better than a finger print. I prefer to use powder free gloves so that you dont need to worry about powder residue on my aircraft..... oh and the minty scent of the gloves beats traditional latex and due to certain connections with health professionals  these are readily available to me so I am not sure how easy to obtain but next time your in the dental chair you might want to ask! any way i hope this helps good luck.

I usually wear them when airbrushing & when handling a nearly finished model for adding the last few fiddly bits.

Regards,  Rick

Like just about everyone else who's posted so far, I too wear latex or vinyl gloves when painting.

I generally only wear them when painting though.  Other than that I border on being OCD about washing my hands to near surgical cleanliness when handing my models while building.

Well, sorry for what I'm saying now, but when I wear latex gloves, I feel like having condoms on my hands and I feel unconfortable; on the other hand, I feel vinyl too thick; don't know nitrile ones, but I found what goes perfect to me : PVC gloves, they are thin like latex and not "locking in"; there are powdered ones , and other unpowdered; you might have trouble finding them as they are scarcer than the latex/vinyl/nitrile products.

I always where latex gloves when I paint keeps the paint thinners and other nasty stuff from soaking into my skin and blood stream. If your not alergic to latex you can get unpowered gloves at NAPA stores.    ACESES5

I always wear nitrile gloves that I get at Harbor Freight by the 100 box when they go on sale. I found that if I don’t put them on each time I handle the model I will forget to put them on the one time when they are most needed. Just my way of dealing with fingerprints/crap on my fingers ( I tend to be on the messy side) I don’t like them but accept what I have to do to prevent my pea brain from screwing up my hard work.

I have a box of those nitrile gloves and have yet to try them for painting. Seems I had to buy some at Walmart, because the family dog developed an infection in an unmentionable place and somehow I was elected to clean and dress it's little bottom daily, and jam pills down it's mangy throat. Mutt much better now, but I have the gloves still, and will have to try them out.

I have another hobby that requires that I use strong solvents, and nitrile gloves fare better with them. Latex has a hard time standing up to some solvents, but nitrile holds up nicely. Now that Costco carries them, I stock up.

Love them if I can get them for a really good price. Otherwise, they are too expensive.  Vinyl gloves are MUCH cheaper, a few bucks for a hundred.  The vinyl are not as good fitting, get in the way sometimes, but I do my modeling on a budget :-)

I spray some pretty strong cabinet finishes in addition to the modeling paints, and I've found that the Harbor Freight nitrile gloves hold up better than Costco or other brands I've tried. If I'm working with oil or water based materials, I can generally get two or three uses before they rip. Lacquers and the like are, of course, one time only. They're on sale every month or two, and since they keep the chemicals off me and fingerprints off the work, they're a bargain!

mike

I'm stopping by Harbor Freight this weekend, so I'll pick some up. Lack of durability with gloves is my one gripe. Thanks.

The ones from Harbour Frieght seem to hold up pretty well I tend to use them over and over till they fall apart.

I use them when spray painting, or when adding pastels, or handling them after they've been pasteled... Keeps the fingerprints off the model and pastel dust off the prints so the model doesn't look like it was at a crime scene..

I just grab a few gloves everytime I'm at the Doc's office and they make me wait in the exam room...

Hans von Hammer

I just grab a few gloves everytime I'm at the Doc's office and they make me wait in the exam room...

Good, I feel better know that I know that I am not the only one who does this.

Yeh. My local building supply started carrying boxes of 100 in their paint department. I had previously used the transparent non-stretchable kind, almost like Saran-wrap gloves, but they fit so poorly.  Was thrilled to get reasonably priced latex ones. I use them more frequently now.  I use them with rattle-cans.

kirk4010

Hans von Hammer:

I just grab a few gloves everytime I'm at the Doc's office and they make me wait in the exam room...

 

 

Good, I feel better know that I know that I am not the only one who does this.

 

I consider it the cost of making me wait yet some more after I've already waited in Waiting Room, lol... Tongue depressors and the long wooden-handled cotton swabs and cotton-balls are fair game too... Got a few (disposable)dental mirrors as well...

I also have  friend who works in the lab at the hospital and she keeps me stocked with pipettes as well...

Ya gotta have contacts everywhere, man, lol..

I use "Powder-Free Nitrile Exam Gloves" from Sam's Club.  About $10 for a box of 200. They're tough and I seem to use them forever before they wear out.  I usually toss them because they're covered with paint.

I worry about finger oils so I usually wear them all the time.  

Latex gloves are great to keep fingerprints out of paint, but they sometimes snag the small fiddly bits and catapult them across the room...  as I discovered the other day during the photo session.  I found the missing piece, whew.

I don't yet, but I have bought some in preparation for working with new modeling putty (Aves A and B).  I've read others mention having irritated skin to one degree or another when working with various putties.  I don't have particularly sensitive skin, but I thought I'd see how it works.

I do use household cleaning gloves when I clean paint off old figures or models, because I use oven cleaner.

Best regards,

Brad

The wife drive a diesel school bus, I buy the nitrile glove from harbour freight for her, and also for me!  it's a win/win.  Not a bad price either, the store is just a 1/2 mile from home.  Can't beat their prices, unless you pull some from the docs.  I don't like docs, so i guess i have to pay for them.  hehe.