Do you wear protection........for your hands?

I only wear gloves when spraying. I don't think i could wear then during construction as i find them annoying and i like to be able to feel what i am handling.

I don't, but I'm tempted to start wearing them while painting so I don't have to spend as long washing them afterwards. I agree with Bish above in that I think they would get in the way especially during construction.

I did use to suffer from eczema and i often have problems with my hands going dry and cracking and they can react badly to things like oil and washing up liquid. So getting paint on them, especially enamels, was a pain in the butt as it meant i either had to use white spirits to remove it rf scrub very hard. Thats what lead to me wearing gloves when spraying. I only wear a glove on my left hand as thats what i hold the model with if i need to.

Ever have concern with leaving fingerprints when handling to do things like applying decals?

Or have been watching too many csi episodes?

The water you use to soak decals in will pretty much get rid of any threat of fingerprints while decaling as you usually have to wipe away excess water and therefore fingerprints. The main danger of fingerprints is when the paint hasn't fully dried yet so as long as you give a sufficient amount of time to allow it to dry, you shouldn't have many problems with fingerprints.

Right now I only use them while spraying or airbrushing, depending on what I  am holding the model, parts or assemblies with (that is, a lot of risk of spraying all over my hands).

I do have a problem getting CA smudges on models, and I have friends who wear cotton gloves for holding models.  I should probably follow that procedure, not wearing gloves while using CA, then putting them on for handling already painted models.

Only when painting     ACESES5

Like some others here I do use them sometimes with a rattle can if its a large part that I need to hold.

I also wear them when I'm handling large parts that have been painted. Especially colors such as white, yellow, and gloss colors.

There is a product called something on the order of liquid gloves. It comes in a tube and applies like a hand lotion. It coats your hands with a thin membrane to protect your hands. Once done, you simply wash it off with soap and water, rubbing to remove. It peels away and seems to work fairly well. When I was turning wrenches I kept a tube in my service truck. I liked using it in the winter months because if I wore latex or nitrile gloves they'd freeze and crack leaving my hands unprotected.

I usually do not wear gloves while airbrushing, because I can control the spray well enough I don't get much paint on myself.  However, occasionally I do.  So when I am spraying thinner through the airbrush, while cleaning, I direct it at finger(s) that have paint on them.  When they are good and wet, I pick up a paper towel and wipe them off.  Now, I use enamel, and the thinner is turpentine/mineral spirits and I guess that is not the best stuff to soak your skin in.   But then, I have been modeling since I was 7 or 8, never did get out of the hobby and come back, and I am 74 now.  So it can't be hurting me too bad.

I don't think mineral spirits are that toxic to your skin, especially in the amount of exposure that we receive while modeling.  But lacquer thinner is a whole 'nuther thing.  I try to avoid undue exposure to that as much as practically possible.  As a former professional painter, I can tell you that we treated any lacquer and its thinner with great respect.

Gary

I'll frequently go the "Michael Jackson" route when I'm painting or handling the model after it's been through paint and wear a glove on my left hand. I very rarely do so otherwise. Occasionally when I'm dealing with thinning 3M glazing putty since man, that stuff is a nightmare to get off your hands. Also, if I'm polishing a black coat ahead of Alclad, I'll suit up in two gloves to keep any skin oils off the surface.

For me, though, the glove is all about protecting the model. My airbrushing tends to be done with fine needles and highly thinned paints, so not much in the way of overspray (I make way more mess wiping off my paint stirrer).

As for during construction...why? I use Tenax for about 80% of my gluing. Gator's Grip PVA glue for another 10%, and CA for maybe the last 10%, and that's always on small areas where there's very little chance of getting my fingers caught up in it. Tenax cures so fast and Gator's is basically white glue, so I don't see any need for protection against either of those.

We use something like these:

www.saraglove.com/.../86-6645.htm

at work.  The work pretty well for long periods w/out getting your hands all sweaty, and are good for not leaving any skin oils on finishes.

They also make them in nitrile if you are allergic to latex.  Remember that nitrile tends to disolve with lacquers though.

Reid

Disposable gloves for air brushing.

only for airbrushing and cleaning the ab.

hey bish

i sometimes wear one on my left hand when airbrushing and both hands when staining bases. i waer a cotton glove on my left hand after i have painted the model to keep fingerprints off it when weathering especially with powders.

I'm in there with watnec. I keep a small tub of nitril gloves next to my spraybooth and I put one on my left hand when spraying. And I keep a pair on cotton gloves on the bench to wear when handling the model after it is painting. Also, I wash my hands before handling a painted model because I have left fingerprints on a model long after the paint has dried and cured. And that my friends sucks.

I have never worn a cotton glove when handling a model. Usually i don't have a problem, but there have been one of tow occasions when i have left a mark, but never a fingur print. But it does sound like a good practice.

Gloves???