Seasonal Painting Problem!

[1hobby1]

hey all,
So where I live it's getting too cold outside to paint and winter is coming. Unfortunately living with my parents doesn't exactly help the situation haha or allow me to just build a paint booth in the house or garage.

Is there any solution to my problem here? any advice would be great!

thanks,
Steve

[jrherald420]

Get several body's painted for the winter.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Move to San Diego.

[Snake45]

Yeah, get some bodies pre-painted, and then spend the winter polishing and then assembling them.

Or you could learn to polish bare plastic. I like to polish the raw plastic on a model if it's molded in a halfway decent color.

[slusher]

Shake your paint up and walk outside spray your body and parts and come back inside. I do it all the time with my parts taped to cardboard. Do it for each coat. Randy B has done it with below freezing temps.

[jrherald420]

I have also done that Carl. I use a hair dryer to heat the plastic and paint then run outside spray one coat then put it in a warm place to flash off then repeat. Problem is you have to be quick. I have 2 cars in my collection that i have painted and cleared outside when it was 30 degrees that i have won awards with.

[Greg Pugh]

Warm up your spray can in a pot of warm water and then take it outside to spray it quickly. Otherwise, like others said, pre-paint your winter projects.

[Guest]

You could plan and prep projects all winter. Then paint like a mad man in the Spring and Summer!

[Jon Haigwood]

I heat up my paint and parts to be painted with a hair dryer. (AutoAir piant)

Do not use a heat gun. You can warp a body in an instant.(don't ask me how I know)

[slusher]

I have also done that Carl. I use a hair dryer to heat the plastic and paint then run outside spray one coat then put it in a warm place to flash off then repeat. Problem is you have to be quick. I have 2 cars in my collection that i have painted and cleared outside when it was 30 degrees that i have won awards with.

Good advice James, easier to paint in the cold then the high humidity in Tennessee. I paint a few bodies up for the real bad weather. I have painted many around freezing.

Edited October 24, 2014 by slusher

[Krazy Rick]

I would look around town & see if there's a body shop that would let you spray in their booth when it's not used.

[Crazy Ed]

Wouldn't using Acrylic Paint solve the Odor Problem? About the only problem would be if you used Alcahol to speed up the drying process and it's odor dissiapates fairly quick.

[Greg Pugh]

I would look around town & see if there's a body shop that would let you spray in their booth when it's not used.

This is a good idea because you could also get in good with whatever body shop and you could probably get a bunch of their left over paints on top of it!

[jrherald420]

Good advice James, easier to paint in the cold then the high humidity in Tennessee. I paint a few bodies up for the real bad weather. I have painted many around freezing.

Isn't that the truth! I hate painting in the summer here.

[High octane]

Maybe you have a friend with a paint booth, that will let you use it to spray some bodies?

[1hobby1]

Thanks for all the advice guys, I'm going give some suggestions a try!

[Tonioseven]

Now that I'm back in Ohio, I'll go back to getting a bunch of bodies painted for the winter. I've painted in the cold with much success as well.

[Tom Geiger]

As others said, you can paint outside in the cold if you work quick. Why not just paint in the garage without a booth? Still cold, but a bit more sheltered. You could do so when nobody is home if fumes from the garage would make it into the home.