Staring at my stash / Cleaning the Airbush

[SapperSix]

Am I the only one that goes to his stash and stares at the lot?.....Thinking about build ideas, projects and after market parts? 

 

 

I have been using Acrylics now for a good while.  I have a large stash of Model Master enamels that I use when I am short on Acrylics.  After using a fair amount of enamel paint I remembered one of the reasons switched to acrylics.....what a pain to clean and transition in comparison. 

[AdamR]

I've mostly switched to acrylics, too, even though enamels spray better. The hairspray chipping method doesn't work with enamels for one reason. Another is one you mention: acrylics can be cleaned up easily with IPA, a less offensive solvent than "odorless" mineral spirits—to me, anyway.

 

And no, you aren't the only one who engages in stash staring! Mine is located where it can be viewed easily at the same time as the completions on the display shelves. Looking at them both really gets the wheels turning. My workbench is about to be clear for the first time since I returned to the hobby last June: I've got a big decision to make!

[mpk]

I stare at my modest stash and think WTF?

 

However, I must survive to complete them.

 

That is my justification and if you rebel my minions will hunt you down!

 

Enamels? What is this, the cretaceous?

 

[wunwinglow]

It's my only pleasure, these days.......

[Gerhard]

I stare at my modest stash and think WTF?

 

However, I must survive to complete them.

 

That is my justification and if you rebel my minions will hunt you down!

 

Enamels? What is this, the cretaceous?

 

Only pansies use acrylics. Bet all the Wallaby rugby team use diluted acrylics  

[AdamR]

It's a shame Testors is dropping a lot of its enamel products: I will miss them. In my experience, enamels will run more easily than acrylics, then they will take lots longer to cure fully. Once they do, however, they will stick tight and stand up to a lot of abuse.

 

I'm planning on painting my next build with Testors enamels just for old time's sake.

[MikeMaben]

Am I the only one that goes to his stash and stares at the lot?....

 

Uh...no...

 

[SapperSix]

I stare at my modest stash and think WTF?

 

However, I must survive to complete them.

 

That is my justification and if you rebel my minions will hunt you down!

 

Enamels? What is this, the cretaceous?

 

 

My wife says I cant build all the models in my stash.  I will have to prove her wrong!!

 

You might be right about the cretaceous as I still have enamels in the old Testers 1/4 once bottle from Longs Drugs at 50 cents a piece.

 

 

I just came back from Sydney...I participated in Operation Talisman Sabre at the Shoalwater training area.  We then flew down to a RAAF base just outside Sydney.  Great City, great people!!

Edited July 27, 2017 by SapperSix

[SapperSix]

Belief it or not I just used some of the Testors

 

It's a shame Testors is dropping a lot of its enamel products: I will miss them. In my experience, enamels will run more easily than acrylics, then they will take lots longer to cure fully. Once they do, however, they will stick tight and stand up to a lot of abuse.

I'm planning on painting my next build with Testors enamels just for old time's sake.

 Metalizer paints as they have been sitting for over a century and I had never used them.  They are now part of the engine bay on my Trumpeter A-10.

[Guest Peterpools]

Rarely eve look at my small stash, except when looking for the next build. I switched to acrylics when coming back to the hobby around 8 years ago and didn't remember at first how offensive the smell of enamels. Clean up and trying times were a huge plus for shooting acrylics. I do have to admit I am now shooting more and more MRP paints these days and need to use both the  spray booth and a respirator every time I load up the air brush with them. I still prefer acrylics for ease of use, nearly no offensive smell at all and use them still in the majority of paint sessions. I am a bit lazy, don't like to paint in the paint booth and find the respirator  and wearing glasses very uncomfortable and cumbersome.

Peter

[SapperSix]

I've mostly switched to acrylics, too, even though enamels spray better. The hairspray chipping method doesn't work with enamels for one reason. Another is one you mention: acrylics can be cleaned up easily with IPA, a less offensive solvent than "odorless" mineral spirits—to me, anyway.

 

And no, you aren't the only one who engages in stash staring! Mine is located where it can be viewed easily at the same time as the completions on the display shelves. Looking at them both really gets the wheels turning. My workbench is about to be clear for the first time since I returned to the hobby last June: I've got a big decision to make!

  I didn't know that about the chipping method as I have yet to try it.  My next build I was going to use the multi layer method.   You just saved me some real trouble.

 

The smell of enamels quickly brings me back to my early childhood when I would brush on all my paints. 

 

Mt sash is spread between my garage and a maybe the top 10 next projects in the modeling room.  If I was a billionaire I would recreate a hobby store in my house and add on the building area.......Hate to say it but I would probably not come out too often....

[DeanKB]

I stare & I only use acrylics, so you're not alone.