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Bubbling Acrylic paint and Enamel overcoats?

Started by Nick, September 29, 2009, 02:48:04 PM

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Nick

I've sprayed my model Shuttle with Tamiya Pure White acrylic. The spraycan ran out halfway through and the paint has bubbled all over one of the sections like a fizzy drink. I did prime the resin kit first with AutoPrimer (the £1 cans we saw at Telford last year) but it's only on one bit that it has gone wrong.

What should I do now?

Sand it off, get some paint stripper, spray over it?

I only have some enamel spray paint left now, will using this over the acrylic cause problems?

jcf

Tamiya sprays are a synthetic acrylic lacquer and are not the same thing as their water-thinned acrylic jar paints, you can overcoat with the oil-based enamel.

Your bubbling is mostly likely one of two things:
1)the result of outgassing of excess propellant in the paint, possible as it was the end of the can
2)fisheyes caused by a contaminant on the model and/or atmospheric conditions