Pactra paint help please

[cchapman195]

I'm not sure what has happened. My local hobby shop was having a sale on Pactra Racing Finish paint. $1.00 a bottle. I was assured this paint is good on model body cars as well as lexan body's. I bought the premix outlaw black to put down as a base before I put HOK Orion silver metallic then top coat with Burgundy Metallic. I sprayed a thin mist coat that came out like small pieces of cloth. I let it dry for 15 minutes and did another coat and now I was getting little cob web like buildup in the window corners. I sprayed a heavy coat and the whole thing looked as if it were a giant cob web. I blew air from my ab at 20 psi and it started to blow the paint off in areas where it did not stick. Sorry for such a long winded explanation but more info may help me to understand what has happened here. Any ideas or explanations of what caused this would help from anyone that may know why. thx in advance for any help.

[sportandmiah]

The same thing happened to me awhile ago...instant cobwebs...I never picked it back up. My guess is it wasn't thinned enough, but as I said, i put the paint away and have yet to try that paint again.

[Joe Handley]

I work for a shop and we're selling ours for cheap because nobody wants it, usually the only Pactra products that sell are the spray lacquers for RC bodies. You probably got old paint.

[Art Anderson]

OK! Pactra RC paint was always a lacquer based product. It must be thinned in order to airbrush, if you are using the bottled variety. Thin the stuff to the consistency of 2% milk, cut down your airpressure a good bit, it will spray very nicely, albeit with a flat finish (bear in mind, with clear Lexan RC bodies, you are painting on the inside, so the gloss finish is that of the clear plastic body!). To solve the flat finish, clear coat it.

Art