Mixing brands...

[Hedgehog]

Hi to all the geek squad of building and detailing. A simple question. Does it come up right priming a car with tamiya and then doing the paint and lacquer (any final touch) with HOK?????? Thank u everyone

[martinfan5]

Its always good to stay with the same brands for all the stages, well from what I hear, I dont , and for the most part have no problems, I use duplicolor primer, then either tamyia or MM lacquer, and the MM clear coat.

But I dont know about HOK, but I think you will be ok

[Hedgehog]

Its always good to stay with the same brands for all the stages, well from what I hear, I dont , and for the most part have no problems, I use duplicolor primer, then either tamyia or MM lacquer, and the MM clear coat.

But I dont know about HOK, but I think you will be ok

thank u for the advice

[martinfan5]

You are welcome, some one will else will give you a much better answer then I can, only other thing I can add is , to test on a spare or scrap piece of plastic to see if the different paints will work with each other.

[GeeBee]

I've used the Tamiya fine primer under cellulose and acrylic lacquer paints with no problems, but mainly I use Hycote plastic primer, I also mix Tamiya and Humbrol and Testors enamels with lacquer thinners, makes them dry out much quicker

[Junkman]

I've used the Tamiya fine primer under cellulose and acrylic lacquer paints with no problems, but mainly I use Hycote plastic primer, I also mix Tamiya and Humbrol and Testors enamels with lacquer thinners, makes them dry out much quicker

Which lacquer thinners do you use?

[Dr. Cranky]

I use Plastikote Primer (rattle can), House of Kolor bases (airbrushed), PEARL EX (suspended in HOK Intercoat Clear, airbrushed) on top of that, and then I clear it all with DuPont Acrylic Spot Clear (rattle can).

That usually gets me consistent results.

[GeeBee]

Which lacquer thinners do you use?

Rustins, it's not the cheapest, but it's 100% pure solvent, It doesn't contain any xylol, toluene or any other petroleum derivative

[Junkman]

Rustins, it's not the cheapest, but it's 100% pure solvent, It doesn't contain any xylol, toluene or any other petroleum derivative

Rustins cellulose thinners?

[GeeBee]

Rustins cellulose thinners?

That's the one ....

[Junkman]

Great, cheers. We really should see each other one of these days.

[ffreak]

Side note here, as long as we're talking about true hok paints, and not the horrid rattlecans that were out a few years ago, I have had no problem mixing Tamiya, Plasticote, or hok.

[martinfan5]

Geebee, Junkman, what is the distance between the two of you?

[Fat Brian]

As long as you work from hotter to milder you should be fine regardless of brand. The only exception is if you are working with something hot enough to damage the plastic, then you need to find a primer mild enough for the plastic that won't react to a hotter paint above it.

[GeeBee]

Great, cheers. We really should see each other one of these days.

Well I'm not sure 100% yet, but I am planning on going to the Scale Modelworld at Telford this year, you going ???

[GeeBee]

Geebee, Junkman, what is the distance between the two of you?

About 98 mile ...

[Junkman]

Well I'm not sure 100% yet, but I am planning on going to the Scale Modelworld at Telford this year, you going ???

Absolutely. I was last year and there is no way I'm not going this year.