Spray Paints?

[Iriorne]

Sorry but floor polish is for floors. If I want a gloss coat I use clear lacquers.

What type of paints do you use it with? I thought it was generally inadvisable to put lacquers over enamel or acrylic as the solvent will eat your paint?

I wouldn’t recommend floor polish as a final coat – it is really shiny – more so than a regularly available model gloss coat. At scale, I think it looks like glass rather than polished metal.

Yup, it's a good way to seal paint and weathering effects but the high gloss finish isn't really appropriate for most subjects. Looks great on model cars when polished up well.

What do you use to clean up Long Life? Sounds like you're getting good results.

[gamblor916]

What type of paints do you use it with? I thought it was generally inadvisable to put lacquers over enamel or acrylic as the solvent will eat your paint?

I probably should have put a disclaimer there. I use lacquers so if you mix and match paints you're going to have problems. You can use it over Tamiya spray cans, Mr Color, Gaianotes, Finishers etc.

[SMHFConvoy]

Hey I was in eckersleys today and they had liquitex spray paints (professional spray paints) liquitex has a good rep, although I don't think I've seen many toy customisers use it. You buy the cans and the nozzles separately. The nozzles are different sizes, sorry didn't get any prices.

[Iriorne]

[...] I use lacquers so if you mix and match paints you're going to have problems. [...]

Ah, thought that might be the case. I like Tamiya's basic lacquer primer but prefer to paint with acrylics because they're easy to clean and airbrush well over quite a wide range of pressures and paint/thinner ratios.

Windex (or any ammonia product) [...]

Cool, sounds pretty much the same as the fabled Future floor polish. Might give it a try next time - Bunnings sells it $10 a big bottle which beats $4 for 10 mL of Tamiya clear.

liquitex spray paints [...] sorry didn't get any prices.

The website has them at $20 a can - pricey but the pigments should be artisan quality. I can't find any info on their use in scale modelling, but liquitex suggest it works well for graffiti art, so I suspect it might be pretty thick?

[SMHFConvoy]

There was a sample of how the paint looked sprayed on different materials. The plastic looked OK but it could be only one coat

[ohmic12]

Went and had a look around

Masters had Plasti-kote Super Spray & Bunnings had White Knight Squirts has anyone tried using any of these?

[lancalot]

Went and had a look around

Masters had Plasti-kote Super Spray & Bunnings had White Knight Squirts has anyone tried using any of these?

i used white knight clear acrylic satin...is really good....the gloss one too thick !

[Iriorne]

I've not used either, but White Knight Squirts seems pretty popular for war gaming miniatures: http://www.wargamerau.com/forum/lofi...php/t9737.html

Plasti-kote could be ok too. The suggestion is to sit the can in some warm water first to get a finer spray, and you may need to overcoat with clear first if you're adding more paint or a wash.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum...st/265523.page

[Ae-Evolution]

For Tamiya sprays, how does the PS series work on ABS plastic? Not a tf project but currently, I'm building a 1/144 meteor strike and want to paint the base Lame Flake (PS49?). Is PS acrylic?

[Stug]

What do you use to clean up Long Life? Sounds like you're getting good results.

Windex (or any ammonia product)... stuffed application once and just bathed the part in Windex then scrubbed with a toothbrush (though not advisable if it's applied over acrylics or vacuum metalised parts (a TF's chrome) - it's my stripper of choice for those too). I've never sprayed it (though it does work for cleaning up brushes).

When I use Long Life, I dip the part in it then set aside. Its self levelling and usually drains off if you set it on tissue paper or similar to dry... so if you've disassembled a TF this may be an option to coat each part?