I’m starting to get really pissed off with the chemistry in modeling-related liquids.
I painted the insides of some wing flaps humbrol enamel aluminium, clear coated with humbrol gloss which is enamel, then tried to do an acrylic wash with winsor and newton acrylics thinned with tamiya acrylic thinner then removed excess with white/mineral spirits and the paint starts stripping. WTF?
The white mineral spirits is a solvent for enamels. i only use water based acrylics such as Vallejo for washes.
Regards, Rick
i know poeple SWEAR by Humbrol, but I find it takes forever to dry. and I am not talking about five or ten minutes forever, I am talking a couple of days to dry. Maybe mixing has something to do with it, even with a wooden skewer chucked in my motor tool I dont get a good enough mix on Humbrol in thier little tinlets.
So…dry time, coupled with another layer whihc needed more dry time.
Are you SURE it was Tamiya acrylic thinner (Which I have had take paint off before, too) because I pickedup a bottle of Tamiya Lacquer thinner (never seen Tamiya Lacquers before but the LHS has the thinner!) in the same botle. Took me by surprise when I got it home.
It doesn’t matter what youfr thinner was, as soon as you put white spirit onto enamel paint it will strip it. Its why we use white spirit for cleaning paint brushes.
I am not sure if you are into armour, but this is why alot of guy use future polish to put a barrier between the enamel paint and the white spirit.
Thanks guys!
I forgot to say that I had begun (fairly lightly) rubbing off excess with the acrylic thinner and the stripping had already begun with it. Only lightly, but never the less. I thought I had sctratched the paint with a nail, so I forgot about it. Then I referred to a wash article in an FSM issue, it said to rub off excess with mineral spirits, and that’s when I changed to the spirits. But it turns out that Mr. Skinner was using an oil wash.