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Date:
12/27/2021 3:14:41 PM
Subject:
Giant painting fail
I am working on a Revell 1971 Hemi 'Cuda. I always thought the "'Cuda" name was a silly affectation, like tranny, but I learned that the Barracuda and 'Cuda are not the same cars. The latter is in a high performance muscle category, while the former is basically a sporty college car.
Anyway, things were going well until I went to paint the body and related attachments. I first used Tamiya white lacquer-based primer and did the usual cleaning up. For the body color, I chose Testor's Extreme Lacquer
Purple-Licious
in a can. After some test sprays, I had a good pattern and set about painting the car.
Almost immediately I noticed strange discoloration and blistering all over the body, as well as an injection crease in the hood. I let it dry for a bit and tried wet sanding, then re-applied. The results were horrible. My car had bubonic plague. More accurately, it looked like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly.
I was puzzled by this result, as you might imagine. Why would this paint maliciously attack my car?
Well, my theory is that it somehow re-activated the Tamiya primer. I'm always a little nervous when working with anything lacquerish in a can because the slightest thing can make it go all werewolf on plastic.
At any rate, I'm soaking the victim in Super Clean and hope it does as good a job cleaning the plastic as it did my wrist, which my glove did not cover.
For my next attempt, I think I'll use either a Model Master acrylic purple or a Tamiya reddish-orange. Either should be fine with the Tamiya primer. I would like to try an acrylic primer with the Testor's purple, but that can is nearly empty.
Stand by for follow-up reports.
