Hand painting White

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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I am currently building a 1/48th scale F-117. Have airbrushed the entire model. The problem I am having is on the tires and landing gear having white paint stick to the base coat when using hand brushes. The paint that I am using is Testors flat white enamel out of the bottle. The paint acting like it has no pigment in it. When I had airbrushed the landing gear and bomb bays didn’t have this problem.

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Jeff Schlotfeld

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You can’t really paint flat Testors white with a brush, if you need to brush paint parts then you need a paint more designed with brush painting in mind such as Polly S.
Why not airbrush the wheels and landing gear also?

Mike

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Or use a spray can of white primer… That’s what I do.

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I always spray white whenever possible. Brushed white never really works out correctly, especially if going over another color.

demono69

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What everyone is saying is that white paint just doesn’t work with a brush. Who knows why, but it just doesnt. There are some brands that work better than others, but I’ve never really come across one that I think does a ‘good’ job with a brush.

As others have mentioned, highly recommend spraying white. It works much better (as you already saw on your landing gear.)

Good luck.

Murray

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Thanks for the info

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And just so you know, schlotfj, yellow usually does the same thing.