What do you think?
-Shawn
Paint dilemma... need some advice
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CaptainHawk1
Paint dilemma... need some advice
I'm just about to paint my nacelles for the ENT B and I was planning on using my testor's turquoise with a little white in it. The problem is that it's an enamel and the only white I have is acrylic. That being said, when Ipainted the model the base color I used a can of Rustoleum for plastics (gloss white). Now what I was thinking of is spraying the white into a bottle and mixing it with the turquoise enamel. The concern comes from the fact that I don't know if the white is a lacquer or not and from what I've read it doesn't look like enamels and lacquers are a good combination.
What do you think?
-Shawn
What do you think?
-Shawn
i would not recommend mixing them. You should go to a local hobby store, or website and order some enamel white, or some acrylic turquoise. Its not good to mix them together in a cup. It isn't TOO bad to lay one down on top of the dried coat of another, but they wont mix together to make another color.
Rob "Talon" Holts
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Acreation Models
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"If my calculations are correct, once this thing hits 88 mph, you're going to see some serious $@*&!"
It's a shame for us modelers that most spray cans are hard to decipher as to what kind of paint it is?
A quick and dirty test for your case would be to spray out some contents and then see if enamel thinner will thin it or just clump on when stirred with a brush. If the two mix nicely you probably have a can of Rustoleum's enamel based paint although they have several different 'types' of paint nowadays. Many years ago Rustoleum could do it's job (overcoating rusted metal) because it contained something like a fish oil additive? Way back then it wasn't something you wanted to overcoat with anything containing a 'hot' thinner which might reach down into that Rustoleum and cause fisheyes. But they've evolved and that's no longer all they offer. Some makes are acrylics too although that won't mix with enamel thinner either. Funny, in the old days "acrylic" just meant "synthetic" and you'd see it applied against lacquers and enamels. Nowadays it's a rule of thumb that acrylic means water based? Just one more reason us 'old folks' are often confused.
A quick and dirty test for your case would be to spray out some contents and then see if enamel thinner will thin it or just clump on when stirred with a brush. If the two mix nicely you probably have a can of Rustoleum's enamel based paint although they have several different 'types' of paint nowadays. Many years ago Rustoleum could do it's job (overcoating rusted metal) because it contained something like a fish oil additive? Way back then it wasn't something you wanted to overcoat with anything containing a 'hot' thinner which might reach down into that Rustoleum and cause fisheyes. But they've evolved and that's no longer all they offer. Some makes are acrylics too although that won't mix with enamel thinner either. Funny, in the old days "acrylic" just meant "synthetic" and you'd see it applied against lacquers and enamels. Nowadays it's a rule of thumb that acrylic means water based? Just one more reason us 'old folks' are often confused.
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CaptainHawk1
Yeah... ummm... thanks. The point of this was this was not to leave the house. Believe it or not I did realize without you having to tell me that I could just go to my LHS and buy white enamel.talon wrote:i would not recommend mixing them. You should go to a local hobby store, or website and order some enamel white, or some acrylic turquoise.
The only reason that I'm using the turquoise enamel is that it's all they had. I normally avoid enamels like the plague and use only acrylics.
I decided to not chance it and I just used turquoise by itself.
Thanks for the help though everyone.
-Shawn