rossfox

Thanks for all of the replies. I will try each of your suggestions in the future if I stay with Tamiya acrylics. I do like the Tamiya brand for everthing and want to support them. I have used Createx and it seemed to be very hard very quick????

Well, I will certainly check that out.

I am using the Tamiya thinner X-20A.

So, I have been using Tamiya Acrylic Paint now for the last year, and I keep having the same problem with several of the colors. Maybe all of them, but for sure the ones I have used. The paint just never hardens. I paint the body, put it in the dydrator for several hours sometimes, sometimes I don't use the dehydrator, wait a couple of weeks, and it still is somewhat soft. I laid my Corvette hood, painted over month ago, clearcoated two weeks ago, on a piece of sponge. It laid there for about 30 minutes. Picked it up and you can see the imprint of the sponge on the hood. What give please???

So, I had some bad places in the paint of my model using Tamiya acrylic red. It had been painted about 3 weeks with at least 4 coats. Some places were scratched bad, some places had paint chipped a little, and some places were dull. So, I was just wanting to be done with this body, and I dabbed a little bit of paint in the chipped in places, dabbed a little bit in the scratches, and a few other bad places. I put it in the dehydrator just to speed up the curing process a little so that I could move on. I usually set the dehydrator at 113 degrees, but for some reason it was at 156 degrees. I found it a couple of hours later and immediately turned the dehydrator off. I figured the body was be melted or warped. Lo and behold the body was fine, and all of the places where the paint had been bad were now healed so to speak. They looked great. I guess I got lucky, but I will remember this for sure and might try it again.

10-4 on all!

Thanks Pete. I will keep trying with BMF to get better.

Wow Steven, those models are unreal so nice. Ok on the BMF, I will try to get better with it.. I have watched a lot of video and feel kinda like I know what to do. I have only built 4 cars so far and it is a learning experience for sure. Just using the airbrush has been a challenge. Thanks for the info.

Okay on all Tony. I had used Tamiya masking, but have found that when I remove it, the paint underneath is scored. So I have gotten afraid to put any kind of masking over paint. At least Tamiya Acrylics. But I will try BMF as masking tape. Someone mentioned Parafilm, but didn't say which type of Parafilm, as there are several types.

Very gorgeous models. So that is BMF?? Wow. Mine BMF is probably nearly 2 years old. Is that why it is not sticking well???

Will foil work on very small parts like door handles? I don't have much hardly experience with BMF except around windows and didn't do very well with that. I will certainly try that as Molotow has been a hard go with me. I have gotten it on the paint in many places and ruined a good to me paint job. So foil will stick and work on very small pieces then??

I used a super small eyelash brush to put Molotow chrome on the door handles. Needless to say, I slipped and got it on the Tamiya acrylic. So, how do you put Molotow on small parts, with what and how. And how do you get the Molotow off. I did dampen a Q Tip with acohol and that was a disaster. Any suggestions.

I used my Sony pocket camera to take the picture.

So here is a picture of my 57 Corvette showing the side view. Thanks for all of the advice. I will use it for sure.

Thanks Peteski. I didn't know about screen capture. I do now. I used the Snipping Tool and saved as a JPG. I will send a picture of my Corvette after lunch.