I am taking all of your advice right now thanks rambo1.. or SLY !
Should that not be "Sly 2"
from Saskatchewan, in the Great White North..
We have met the enemy, and he is us............ (Pogo)
I also have a paint booth on my to do list. I have been using a box (available at Office Depot with a printer inside for $149) on the workbench in the garage, where a tad of overspray is not a big issue (my wife's Buick is not yet box car red!). Two issues I have been struggling with:
a) I'm unsure whether I can go to all water based paints. If I could, then I could just keep doing what I'm doing and always use a proper respirator, which I have. The reason I raise that issue is most times I'm just spraying (solvent based) primer as for structures I usually add hand painted acrylic colors. I don't know if there are water based spray primers. And for colors, I have used Testors spray cans sometimes, all of which I think are solvent based(?). I guess if I always use the (correct for solvents) respirator and can stand the minor workbench overspray then I'm done.
b) My 2nd, more flexible workbench option is to make a booth with a blower. I've seen reference above to various approaches on fans, but recall remembering from prior discussions that with solvents (again...the primer issue) it is inadviseable (dangerous) for the airflow to move over the motor; e.g., with bath or vent fans. I believe someone recommended squirrelcage blowers (which assumes the bearing in the flowpath won't spark). I see a fan on Amazon for less than $70, and my vent hookup would not be the easiest.
So, I'm primarily trying to find if there are appropriate non-solvent spray primers. Failing that, rather than build a vented booth (the workbench is not on an outside wall, which adds complexity) I may simply add some respirator discipline for spraying water based paints at the workbench. And when wanting to used solvent spray paints, so the garage doesn't fill with solvent fumes, open the garage door and put the box in the covered garage entry (outdoors) on that B&D folding workbench thingy that I think I've used about once a decade.
Just my perspective, which may have some relevance.
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent