spray booth

Hi,

I'm new to car modeling. I'm building a Tamiya New Beetle for a friend of mine. I don't have a spray booth. So the dust got on the wet finish of the main body as I was spray painting it last night, damn. :mad: Now I need a spray booth to keep the dust and fume out. The Aztek spray booth is about $350, ouch! Any cheap alternatives?

Thanks.

Shaun

You could build one

http://www.interlog.com/~ask/scale/tips/booth.htm

A spray booth won't prevent dust landing on the model, it will only help reduce over-spray and fumes.

To keep the dust off the body, once you have finished spraying place it in a large tupperware or something similar to prevent dust landing on the model. Just invert the tupperware so it can be placed over the model and make sure to keep one edge lifted with a toothpick or something to allow paint fumes to escape.

I think I heard P-Man do this but I put mine in the microwave after painting. Using the microwave as a somewhat dust free environment. It hasn't failed me yet.

i got a problem with my. when i paint the body dust gets painted on with it. i use a cardboard box as a paint booth thuo. and i paint in my garage. wats the problem ?????

Painting in the garage is the problem, since I started painting outside I hardly ever get any dust in my paint, just make sure you do it some where out of the wind, cause it makes it very hard to aim when the winds blowing all your paint away :p

Dust will always be a problem when painting in a closed environment like a garage. What you need to do is give the dust somewhere to go besides your newly painted model. If your garage has a window open it and place a fan in front of the window blowing out. Then open the door, preferably the door to the house rather than the door the car goes through. This will provide the make-up air you need to get effective cross ventilation. If the house air is a little warmer than the garage air, so much the better. Doing this should create a draft or gentle flow of air from the door to out the window. Now set up your painting station adjacent to, but not directly in the airflow from the door to the window. If you have good airflow, most of the airborne dust should move through the room rather than settling onto the model. Also much of the dust that you kick up with either your spray cans or airbrush should like wise get caught in the air stream and be exhaused out the window. In essence what you have done is turn your garage into a low-tech spray booth. You also have the added advantage of removing most of the bad air created by the painting process. Occaisonally, the bad air will migrate into the house but I have found this to be a problem only on windy days. I think it's a back draft problem, but really not certain. Once you've finished painting, you still need to cover the model since there is still the risk of dust during the drying period. While this won't eliminate all dust during painting, it should cut down on the problem. If you upgrade to a spray booth you'll still need to have either the door or the window open, since even a spray booth needs make-up air to operate effectively.

I hope this helps.

Well, I guess all you can do now is wait till it dries, and sand it out. I usually paint my cars out in the back yard where there isn't really much dust, then I take it straight inside and cover it, whether I put it in the microwave, or in a box either way works.

I think I heard P-Man do this but I put mine in the microwave after painting. Using the microwave as a somewhat dust free environment. It hasn't failed me yet.

Just don't turn the microwave on... :uhoh:

thanx for great info . maybe microwae the models will amke the paint dry faster hehehehehhe