I saw several good things about the Stynlrez primer and decided to give it a try. I also bought a bottle of the Vallejo primer. I did a test spoon of the Stynalrez and got the result below. The Vallejo went on with no issue. Any idea what the issue might be? Primer not diluted. Bottle well shook.
New Iwata Revolution AB with .5 needle at 25psi
No photo. What did the primer do wrong ?
Yeah, sorry, your photo’s not coming through. And when I clicked on it, a new browser tab opened but showed error 404.
Cant really comment on what the problem may be without seeing the pic… Plus I’m a new modeller so my knowledge is… Well almost zero… However what I can say is I use a .5 needle with stynlrez and find anything above 15psi causes me issues no matter how much or how little I pull the trigger back or from what distance I spray from… Have you tried a lower psi?
My image didn’t come through. Also I did try 15 psi and got the same issue. Link
Try stiring it up better from the bottom and then shake it. I use a motorized badger mixer but you get the idea. There is a lot of pigment at the bottom that needs to be re incorporated. Also start with a misty coat, let it set up a little thrn build up gradually. Let us know how it turns out.
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A couple of times I didn’t mix Stynylrez well enough, it just went on less opaque and had swirls in it best described as like gasoline on water but then not really. Added coats properly mixed went right on no problem, the paint stuck well etc… . Yours looks like contamination, be that in the paint, your cup or on the surface of the spoon. I’ve honestly never seen Stynylrez do anything like that. I will say that I’ve heard Badger is pretty good on backing up their products, so if you can’t get to the bottom of this I’d contact them.
Modelmaker66 wins the point!
I took my badger mixer and gave the bottle a good mix. BINGO! came out nice and smooth on the spoon. Just have been a bottle sitting around for a while. Thx everyone for the help. Now back to the Airfix P-40. Doing a Pearl Harbor series.
Perfect !! Now we all know, enjoy your build sounds interesting !
From the comments it sounds like my Stynylrez just never sat long enough to encounter this. But I don’t stock grey, just black and white and shoot grey pretty often. So the bottles with both colors get disturbed often .
That same thing happened to me when I first used this product. In fact, it was on a spoon just like what you had used. The problem eventually went away but, in my case, I am not sure why. I suspect it was for the same reason as you are finding. Other issues lead me to that there was a lot of settling at that bottom of the bottle. You might want to take a soda straw, or something similar, and make sure you don’t have the same issue. When that stuff settles, depending on how bad it settled, shaking the bottle is not going to break it up. In my case it was a thick sludge maybe an inch thick.
Glad to hear you have the problem solved.
Glad it worked for you Lonnie!