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Modelers Lounge => Time to relax => Topic started by: macsporran on July 21, 2017, 03:35:34 AM
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So, I'm making these two Monogram Classic cars - a Cadillac and a Packard, both together so I can spray two chassis simultaneously - and I've sprayed the Caddie in two beautiful coats of light and dark grey and the Boattail in Chocolate Brown and Coral Beige and I'm just getting to the stage of putting everything together when I decide the Packard could do with a Brown coachline along the beige bodywork.
Now, I use automotive acrylic sprays for my cars and decant from the rattle cans into little hotel-type shampoo bottles, before putting into the airbrush. So I give the chocolate brown shampoo bottle a good shake and unscrew the top...... aaargh, paint explosion, brown paint everywhere.
Splattered Cadillac, Packard, shirt, trousers, wheels, tyres, workbench.....
Do you know that scene at the breakfast table in the movie Trainspotting, with the soiled bedsheets?
I've got to step back, take a walk outside and decide whether to bin the lot, or strip everything back to plastic.
Sheesh, this is a hobby? I do this for fun?
Sandy
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Ouch! Time for a pint methinks!
Ian
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Do you know that scene at the breakfast table in the movie Trainspotting, with the soiled bedsheets?
Yes I do... ouch! Don't bin it, just leave it for a while!
Borsos
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been there, done that...
I have had an airbrush 'explode' on me more than once, my wife turning on a fan near a dusty table, just when I was doing a wet clear coat and I had a cat run across the table and knocking over a jar of thinner when I wasn't there, nearly disolved the complete kit...
That one didn't survive, all the rest (including the wife and cat) are still treasured items.
Hang in there, take a step back, breath in, breath out.... most likely it can be saved, just takes a lot of time...
good luck!
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"been there, done that..."
Yep! .......and I'd bet there's not many that haven't!
My favourite stunt involves the very sensitive switch on the Badger Paint Stirring gadget, great tool but if you touch the trigger as you lift the agitator out of the paint jar....... instant splotched everything within a five foot radius! :( :-[
Hope you can salvage all of that effort, Sandy, as Hidde has indicated, it usually just takes a lot of time.
Cheers,
Lance
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Ouch! Time for a pint methinks!
Ian
Several pints!!!!!
Glenn
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Always hard to have one go side-wise at the last moment, especially when it follows from just wanting to do one more little thing to make it perfect....
Hope you can manage a repair.
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Hell, Sandy. I don't know which upsets me more as I digest my breakfast: the thought of the damage to your beautiful models and the collateral problems, or a reminder of the scene from Trainspotting.
Bon courage, mon ami !
Best wishes
Nigel
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Put a sign in large letters over your spray area: "Stirred, not shaken". ;)