Paint Question

[Musclecarbuilder]

I was painting the dash of a Monogram 93' mustang I'm building with Tamiya grey acrylic, I was wondering if I could clear over the acrylic paint with Tamiya semi-gloss lacquer paint. Has anybody tried this before? Thanks 

[Shark]

You can get acrylic semi-gloss in a bottle and air brush or hand paint it on. It levels out good when brushing it on.

[Dave G.]

Just so you know, in the last couple of years or so, I once put Tamiya LP lacquer over their acrylic X series paint. It looked good and I put it aside to build later. A couple of months later I decided to go back to that project and the whole finish had cracks all over . Into my mason jar of 91% alcohol it went, 30 minutes later I had it back to bare plastic. This may just have been an odd phenomenon, but personally I won't repeat it. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't know better than take the chance of mixing up formulation coats.

Now on the other hand, I've used the X22 clear over X series colors many time, works great. But LP over acrylic  series in time cracked wide open right through the color coat.

[Shark]

Hey Dave, that wasn't an odd phenomenon, it happened to me also. Wasn't going to say anything in my earlier response just in case it was a one-off occurrence. I airbrushed Tamiya jar paint on a body, several days later wasn't happy with the shine, so I sprayed Tamiya clear on it. Same result.

[Musclecarbuilder]

Thanks for the the tips! I sanded all the acrylic paint off the dash, went to the hobby store and bought the Lacquer color to spray instead of the acrylic. I just don't get super good finishes with Tamiya Acrylics. They're lacquer is great though.

[Dave G.]

19 hours ago, Shark said:

Hey Dave, that wasn't an odd phenomenon, it happened to me also. Wasn't going to say anything in my earlier response just in case it was a one-off occurrence. I airbrushed Tamiya jar paint on a body, several days later wasn't happy with the shine, so I sprayed Tamiya clear on it. Same result.

Well on my reapplication I mixed up my color in Testors enamel and it came out great. It's a 34 classic era vehicle anyway, I've often used enamels for that with no clear coat. It's not even buffed out. The fenders are black LP lacquer, same there, came out awesome.

It was real fluky for me what I did the first time anyway.