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#1
08-31-2002, 01:22 PM
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from one tamiya spray can how...
... many cars can you paint before you run out of it? average?
 cause when i was spraying my kit i've finished the whole can and i haven't had the chance to paint some of it's accessories. so i have to buy another can to finish it. but the body doesn't have any over spray on it though and it really even. from the tamiya manual it said that the average cars that can be painted is around 3. how is that?
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08-31-2002, 01:35 PM
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Depends on how many coats you put on it and how heavy the coats are. If you get perfect paint jobs, you can often do 2-3 cars from a single can. Perfect paint job typically would be 2-3 mist coats and 1 wet coat. The wet coat would go on smoothly enough that you wouldn't need any other coats. The only purpose extra coats serve is to provide a thick enough paint layer so that you can polish it - but then again, a perfect paint job would require minimal polishing.
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08-31-2002, 07:56 PM
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Ditto to Dan.
I think it sounds like you have bathed your model in paint. To much paint and it will loose its detail. What Dan said is spot on with painting
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08-31-2002, 09:19 PM
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Tamiya paints are lacquer paints, which go on very thin and smooth generally, so even after a full detail. But if you applied all that paint at once then you will lose detail, if you apply it over a period of coats, you won't.
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08-31-2002, 10:07 PM
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how to cleanly re-start
If your not happy with your painting, and you want to remove everything , starting from 0.Donīt sand. Buy a litre of break fluid , put it ina container and leave the body inside of it for one or two days. The paint leaves off like a flim without harming any detail of it or the very plastic.
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08-31-2002, 10:10 PM
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Re: how to cleanly re-start
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09-02-2002, 01:09 PM
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Re: Re: how to cleanly re-start
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hth, Bill :bandit:
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