Why is Old Paint Sticky?

[Bucky]

I have a 'gluebomb" I'm working on that was brush painted with gold paint. It's a '67 Cougar body, probably painted way back when!!

While doing the cut work on this body, I kept noticing my fingers keep sticking to the paint, and it ain't 'cause I got grape jelly on 'em!!HAHAHA

I don't see any signs of primer under the gold, and the silver on the inside of the body isn't sticky. Have you guys got any ideas about what causes the stickiness?

[Tom Geiger]

It must be the kind of paint used. Any Testors, Pacta paints may have been sticky for awhile but eventually would've dried. Strip it

[Snake45]

Testor old-school chrome silver was infamous for never fully drying. Looks like gold was the same way.

Strip it and start over.

[Bucky]

I will definitely strip it. This is the first one I can remember that was sticky. I got a gluebomb Dodge one time that had yellow paint that was about a mile thick. Two weeks in the brake fluid was required for that one. I usually don't have to wait that long with the brake fluid! LOL

[Lunajammer]

Yeah, I brush painted a 65 Chevelle wagon with Testors gold back in the 70s, it too never really dried. Early on I played with it and handled it a lot so it got tarnished and gross. Still have it though.