Got a weird one for my Forum friends this time. Has anybody ever had Microset (the blue stuff) dissolve and remove paint? I was doing some decaling on a model before I do some weathering on it. (Some decals will go on before the weathering and some after due to the way the weathering looks against the lettering.) I was trying to apply a decal to the car and the solution proceeded to remove a section of the paint. It was just on one section of the car and all the other paint is fine. With as much decaling as I have done over the years, I have never seen paint do this. (I have seen some paint be removed when using Microsol to remove decals and lettering but not to this extent.) The paint is water-based and was brush painted.
Any ideas on what I did so that I can avoid doing it again or is this just a major-league fluke?
As usual, any assistance that I can be provided would be most welcomed.
Paint was not cured, acrylic pain cures, not drys. It can seem to be dry and handling is fine but depending on how thick the paint is applied it can take weeks to cure. In the 1-1 world many a begining artist has hung a peice of art with really think paint that they thought was good to go, only to have some of the paint start to sag using acrylics, you brush painted so I would say you had a thicker spot.
I think that rrebell has nailed it: simple watercolour paints are nowhere near as durable as acrylics (and I'm not trying to re-open previous suggestions that I've made regarding airbrushing).Heavily-applied acrylics, especially those applied by brush, do require a longer time to fully cure.
Wayne
There are some "water soluable" paints that will lose their binder strength when thinned with water. Wargamers have seen this effect when spraying Dullcote over improperly thinned paints.
If you thinned the paint with water, this might be the case. Just supposing here... When these paints are thinned with water, you are not just thinning the pigment, but also the binder and adhesive contents as well.
That is why I always recommend thinning "water soluable" paints with the manufacturer's suggested thinner, and not water.
Unfortunately, Delta Ceramcoat discontinued their EXCELLENT thinner, so now I do not use that line of paints.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
The paint was allowed to cure for a number of days while I was rounding up decals. I used another color from the same company (Mission Models) on.another project without a problem. Just plain weird to me.
Days, even sprayed it takes almost a week to fully cure according to the pros, I know brush on stuff can take at least a week or more, thicker can take months.
FRRYKid I used another color from the same company (Mission Models) on.another project without a problem.
I used another color from the same company (Mission Models) on.another project without a problem.
The other car I used the Mission Models paint on is starting to do the dissovle thing a little too. (Not ro the extreme of the first one but still.) I think that I get rid of the bottles as soon as I'm done with the two cars. Those paints have given me nothing but problems. Even the airbrush thinned paints haven't caused this many problems!
I have never used Mission Models paint myself, but it was something I was going to try. Thank you for the report, and I will not be testing this line for myself.
Good luck fixing the issues.