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Testors enamel paint
- Thread starter Brisco
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Looks great, pic of finger painted next to bed?
Reflektr
Rock Crawler
What's wrong with teal? ; )
I understand what you mean. I bet the primer or base color is altering the color. I had a Testors enamel do something similar. I like how it lays down and it dries nicely, but sometimes it reacts differently with other primers and colors.
I understand what you mean. I bet the primer or base color is altering the color. I had a Testors enamel do something similar. I like how it lays down and it dries nicely, but sometimes it reacts differently with other primers and colors.
Nothing wrong with teal. I was going for a brighter blue to match a photo I saw online. The paint under the blue is tamiya gunmetal. I have no stores nearby that carry tamiya paints and the tamiya blue I bought was completely wrong.
So after the Tamiya paint was cured I started with a very light coat of the testors enamel. Locally bought. So the blue is on a dark base coat. I thought if anything it would make the blue darker not turn it teal.
The pic is about an hour after application. I wonder if it'll darken up while curing.
Edit: Well I got home and answered my own question. So about 3.5 hors and It's now a nice shade of blue closely resembling what I was going for. Unfortunately I now must wait until sunday to add more coats or risk paint issues.
Here is what I was going for...
https://goo.gl/images/QTZTH8
So after the Tamiya paint was cured I started with a very light coat of the testors enamel. Locally bought. So the blue is on a dark base coat. I thought if anything it would make the blue darker not turn it teal.
The pic is about an hour after application. I wonder if it'll darken up while curing.
Edit: Well I got home and answered my own question. So about 3.5 hors and It's now a nice shade of blue closely resembling what I was going for. Unfortunately I now must wait until sunday to add more coats or risk paint issues.
Here is what I was going for...
https://goo.gl/images/QTZTH8
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Ok, forgot about this Toyota color, looks good! My buddy's 83 was the same color.
It's too late now, but I'd bet that if you had a base coat of white the dark blue top coat would have been closer to the color that you were after. It looks like a nice paint job, but I fully understand it not being the color that you were expecting.
Well I am about done. I see that this type of paint is a pain to apply correctly compared to the ease of Tamiya. I will deal with it since it's going to get scratched up when trailing/crawling but would never use it on anything that I want to stay looking nice. It's just been a huge headache for the most part. In spring if I really want to deal with it I may sand it down and go Tamiya, but Testors Enamel is out of the question with any future projects.
Of what? I'll do this in spring if it strips the paint easily.
