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- From: augustho@aludra.usc.edu (August Horvath)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.scale
- Subject: Re: Acrylic paint: Opinions
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 11:40:05 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <1i6v1dINN4db@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aq479@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Paul E. Sincaglia) writes:
- >
- >In a previous post I asked about Tetors ne Model Master Acrylic
- >line. As I prefer using the water based paints, I would really
- >like an assessment of all acrylic paints suitable for modeling
- >rom all of you folks.
- >
- >Which of the paints are the best and the worst and for what
- >reasons......etc.
-
- I have completely given up on the use of acrylic paints in my airbrush after
- a bad experience with Pactra flat black acrylic. To put it simply, the paint
- stuck to my airbrush's insides and neither water nor mineral-based thinners
- nor alcohol nor ammonia nor any other horrible toxin that I could think of
- has ever been able to get it off. It came off the chromed parts of the
- airbrush all right, but not the unfinished metal (i.e. all the important
- parts). This was the first paint I ever used in my new airbrush and that
- may have contributed to the problem (perhaps airbrush metal gets sealed
- somehow by repeated use with enamels and their thinners). The coating of
- black paint does not seriously impede the functioning of the airbrush and
- of course I have little concern that it will ever bleed into other paints
- I'm using, so I'm not much upset anymore but from now on it's enamels only
- in that airbrush as far as I'm concerned.
-
- To make matters worse, I have found that although Pactra flat black sticks
- to airbrushes, it does not stick to models! It scratches off extraordinarily
- easily. I now use it only as a weathering wash, for which it is useful over
- enamels because it doesn't lift off the paint underneath as a thinned enamel
- would tend to do.
-
- I assume that not many people have had this airbrush-sticking problem with
- acrylics because if they had it would be common knowledge. Why it happened
- in my case remains a mystery.
-
- august horvath <augustho@usc.edu>
-