Phil_H wrote:
Tankbuilder wrote:Hi there.
I sure wish I had known that before the hobby shop here in town suckered me into spending close to $50.00 for Tamiya paints when the store owner KNEW I was going to apply them by brush. When I took the unopened paints back along with a model to show him how the first layer of paint simply lifted upon application of the second coat he told me the paints must have been old. He meant that I had had them for a long time. He would not refund my money or do an exchange with the unopened paints. I never went back there again. That was also my first and last attempt to use Tamiya paints for hand-painting anything. I'll never buy them again.
Cheers from Peter
Hi Peter,
That is, in fact, typical behaviour of Tamiya acrylics when an insufficiently cured layer of paint is overpainted. You really need to let the first coat cure at least overnight (or longer for gloss paints) before applying the second coat.
Some hobby shops here in Australia actually have a "no refund/no exchange" policy on paints.
Age shouldn't be an issue - some of my Tamiya paints are nearly 30 years old and work just fine. It really comes down to technique - I've seen some stunning work done with brush-painted Tamiya aceylics.