[Help]Acrilycs Tamiya

[MarcoGTI]

Hello Friends

I bought one month ago an airbrush revell standard and a normal compressor.Then I decided to take Acrylic Tamiya paint for the airbrush and yesterday I started my first paint,painting with the"metallic grey XF-56" with a bit of Tamiya thinner a car motor.And I was very satisfied of the result

Today I painted other parts with semi-gloss black X-18 always with thinner and the final result was very bad!!!! The surface was very rough,not smooth and nice as yesterday.It was like an orange peel with,very bad to see

I tried with a brush and with other colors on a plastic piece to see how it was and also there the result was like with the airbrush.I tried with gloss black flat black white and grey and always the same bad result,with brush and with airbrush

Have you ever had this problem?
What do you suggest?

Thanks for replies

[MPWR]

Try thinning it a bit more. Usually when it bumps up like that, it's drying too much in the spray stream. Adding more thinner should help.

[356speedster]

I often mix paint and thinner 40/60 and sometimes even 50/50 with good results. Often you have to adjust ratio for different colors, try to get is as thin as "milk".

Its also important how far from the body you spray and how fast you move the airbrush.

The trick is to get to make the paint flow on the body without letting it get heavy enough to run. If it runs, then you are screwed :-) The only way to learn the to balance this is practice, practice and more practice...

Note! the first two layers of paint should be very thin (barely cover the primer) then you add one or two (or more) "heavy" layers. Let the paint dry about 10 minutes between each layer.

[gasman03]

I use Tamiya Acrylics straight from the jar to my Aztec with no issues. I tried to thin it once and the paint become way to runny.

[356speedster]

I guess there is no "default guide" on how to mix and paint. It depends on to many factors like, paint type, airbrush type, airpressure, room temperature, mix ratio, spray distance, spray speed, etc....

So you just have to test until you find a solution that works for you.

I've done some good paintjobs earlier, but lately I just seem to get "orange peel" whatever I do, so I'm a bit frustrated since I used the same technique as earlier.

At the moment I'm painting a body black, but the result had so much orange peel that I am going to try to switch from X1 gloss black to flat or semigloss and then polish is smooth before applying clear. Dont know how this will turn out, but thats whats make this hobby fun, there is always something new to learn :-)