Originally Posted by
scratchpc7
Well, thanks to Pat, now have at least some know-how on painting. still learning but I was able to use some of the techniques in this thread to get started. The first real attempt at painting. The surface is the best I have had yet.
For this one used duplicolor primer and white for the base coat. The purple is Testors fluorescent airbrush paint, and the green and black is Wicked Color water-based airbrush paint. The Wicked Color sprayed very well with the Paasche VL airbrush. Not sure on the purple since I got some bleed-thru under the vinyl mask. Not sure if it is a paint reaction between the acrylic paint and the white, or technique, as in too-thick paint or not enough pressure. But in either case, pretty happy with it and looking on building my painting skills.
The plane is a BS Industries Formula V500 kit. A box of wood and a white foam core. The wing was glassed with .75 oz glass over the complete surface.
Doug
Doug,
Congratulations...you are well on your way. I like it a lot. My guess is the purple leaking under the tape (masking film) was likely an issue of incompatibility with that particular paint. It may not have been solvent proof film.
One other thing to help stop the leaking (migrating) of color under the tape is to shoot a coat of intercoat clear over the tape edges (masking film) before you shoot the color coats.