Stealth Pilot wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:50:58 +0000, Ernest Christley
wrote:


Morgans wrote:

"cavelamb himself" wrote


I second the HVLP approach.
Mine is a $90 Harbor Freight cheapie that I've used for the last 8 years.

It makes very little overspray, and works fine.

I should add that there is not enough tea in China to make me spray a
fuselage with an airbrush, when I could fill the quart HVLP gun one time, or
perhaps two, and do it all. The waste factor difference would be very
small, indeed.


I second the cheapy HF HVLP sprayer. The suck at spraying regular
paint, but the watery aircraft paints are a perfect match for it. It
puts down PolyTone in a perfect layer.

I used a $6 airbrush from Northern Tool to spray a lot of the tube on my
project. It clogged up beyond repair about halfway through the
fuselage. It was actually beneficial that it was so small, because I
couldn't have gotten a touchup gun into all that small spaces between
tubes. I ended up doing a large section with a 3" roller. That worked
really well for everything except the tight corners. If I had to do it
over again, I'd roll as much as I could and hit the corners with the
modeler's airbrush.


you tried to get by with just one???? :-) :-)

buy a dozen of them :-)
expect them to gum up and replace them.

I must throw out the 5 gummed up ones I still have in the workshop.
Stealth Pilot

I painted the garage walls when we moved in here.
Nothing fancy - just a coat of water based Kilz.

The Wagner Power Painter was my first choice, but even thinned 50:50
(way too thin for this stuff) the WPP would gum up in less than a
minute. It was a prolem withthe pump piston - not the spray head.

I gave up and tried the HVLP. Thinned about 10% he Kilz went on
beautifully. No overspray at all hardly/

Go figure.

The whole 2 car garage tool an hour to paint.

Along the door frames a simple cardboard mask made nice sharp edges.

HVLP - it ain't yer grandpa's spray painter...