Adam Baker
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So a few weeks ago, I started building a Tamiya F1 kit, the Williams BMW FW-24 kit to be exact.
One of the first steps is painting the cockpits so that the halves of the cockpit can be assembled so that you can move on to bigger things.
The first step in this, is painting the driver seat. 2 colors are required, Sky Blue for the seat itself and then gloss black for the area around the seat.
I've painted & stripped this seat 6 times. Each time I'd paint it, something would go wrong. The first 3 times I painted it, I put liquid mask over the blue paint so that I could airbrush the black, and had a ton of problems w/ the liquid mask not wanting to come off. The bottle of LM has since gone into the trash b/c I've been having some issues w/ it for awhile. The other times I've had various issues, like bubbles showing up in the paint as it dried, etc.
I painted it for the 7th time this morning. It looked excellent at the time I painted it, about 9:30 or so this morning. A couple hours after painting, left home to do family stuff, and it still looked great. Noticed a couple spots that looked like the paint had run just a bit, but they would be covered up w/ the seat belts, so I wasn't worried about it. Got home about 7:30 or so, and checked it, and this is what I found.
I was about fit to scream. Before painting this morning, I had started stripping off the paint using Windex, dropped it in last night after painting it yesterday evening and having a bunch of bubbles appear in the drying paint. Pulled it out, washed it thoroughly w/ hot water & dish soap, and then let it dry completely. As mentioned above, the paint is Tamiya Sky Blue, and it was thinned using Tamiya X-20A thinner to the consistency I was looking for. Sprayed it on at about 12 psi w/ my airbrush.
I'm about to shelf this whole model b/c I cant get past this one fricking part. I think my next step, after stripping, will be to apply primer to the plastic, probably Duplicolor grey primer (lacquer) and see how that goes.
One of the first steps is painting the cockpits so that the halves of the cockpit can be assembled so that you can move on to bigger things.
The first step in this, is painting the driver seat. 2 colors are required, Sky Blue for the seat itself and then gloss black for the area around the seat.
I've painted & stripped this seat 6 times. Each time I'd paint it, something would go wrong. The first 3 times I painted it, I put liquid mask over the blue paint so that I could airbrush the black, and had a ton of problems w/ the liquid mask not wanting to come off. The bottle of LM has since gone into the trash b/c I've been having some issues w/ it for awhile. The other times I've had various issues, like bubbles showing up in the paint as it dried, etc.
I painted it for the 7th time this morning. It looked excellent at the time I painted it, about 9:30 or so this morning. A couple hours after painting, left home to do family stuff, and it still looked great. Noticed a couple spots that looked like the paint had run just a bit, but they would be covered up w/ the seat belts, so I wasn't worried about it. Got home about 7:30 or so, and checked it, and this is what I found.
I was about fit to scream. Before painting this morning, I had started stripping off the paint using Windex, dropped it in last night after painting it yesterday evening and having a bunch of bubbles appear in the drying paint. Pulled it out, washed it thoroughly w/ hot water & dish soap, and then let it dry completely. As mentioned above, the paint is Tamiya Sky Blue, and it was thinned using Tamiya X-20A thinner to the consistency I was looking for. Sprayed it on at about 12 psi w/ my airbrush.
I'm about to shelf this whole model b/c I cant get past this one fricking part. I think my next step, after stripping, will be to apply primer to the plastic, probably Duplicolor grey primer (lacquer) and see how that goes.
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