Subj : Re: Painting models
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Dec 10 2023 10:11:00

> In my misspent youth I got into custom painting motorcycles. I had a couple of
> air brushes but I wasn't enough a a free-hand artist to get full use out of
> them, but the quality of most canned paints is much better than what is in
> spray cans.

Overall, it probably is, especially for serious painting.  For me, I
usually am painting simple colors on 1/87th models.  It doesn't have to be
too fancy just as long as it gets a full coat after a few passes without
overspray.  So, I am not an artist.  ;)

> or silver base coats to get the end result I wanted. At the time developing
> colour pigments for plastics was my full time job which gave me access to some
> usefull goodies, like dry powdered pearl and metalic flake in silver and gold.

I bet it did!

> Funny, I also had a dirt bike at the time which I would custom paint and it
> would freak out the other riders since you destroy a paint job pretty quick
> crashing through the dirt, and it looked like mine had a $700 paint job.. B)

LOL, I bet it did stick out in the crowd.

Mike


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