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ok well i am painting my civic gun metal. well i need to put a coat of black down to fix my windows and the paint didnt grip. so i sent a hour cleaning it. then i scuffed it and it worked fin . i masked the windows and put a couple coats of gun metal down. and it got messed up. so i went out and bought primer , sanded the body down and primersed it. tommarow i am getting more gun metal and try again. on a good note the gun metal worked great on my chasis peices and i am clearing them now plus my wheels are now black and i am clearing those also. i will post pics of my chasis tonite. but i dont have a couple parts at the moment. i might get those dis week.

Did you use Tamiya spray paints? I heard they're the best for plastic stuff. Boy do I wish I had a LHS that sells Tamiya paints.

Speaking of gunmetal, yeah, I really like that color. I was thinking of a darker gun metal / smoke color for my Skyline since it'll easily match the ultra-black windows.

no i am using kryolon and plasti-kate
the paint is called pewter but its gun metal imo
i am having trouble with the priming because i am tryin to remove alot of scratches, i will have paint on it tommarow

Some putty on the scratches should do the trick.

i end up with too much paint and crap on it so i striped it and priming it again. it sucks that i have todo every thing agian
but it will look better in the long run

i might just give up
i got it primed nice and got my paint today
i was going to put black down first fro my windows well somthing got on the primer on the back p[art o my car over nite nad the paint got funky after like5 second of being on the body so i am waiting for the peice of crap to dry so i cna sand of the messed up paint
atleast i dont have a working x at the second or i would give up and leave the damn thing primer color

Hmmm...its best to stick to one particular brand of paint. Anyways, its weird how the primer can get affected by that "something".

Anyways, from what I remember...
Lacquer > Enamel > Acrylic
- which means it is okay to put enamel over lacquer and acrylic over enamel and lacquer. But it will be disastrous if lacquer went over enamel and acrylic...you should be able to understand hopefully. Correct me if I'm wrong because I haven't painted anything for almost a year already.

I've used Krylon primer before and it is one of the most durable primers for plastic I have ever seen - The paint I was using (Deltacoat Acrylic) would not go on well on the plastic (especially the bright colors), but after a nice, solid coat of Krylon primer the paint sticks magically. I never even sprayed a finish coat on the model and you can't notice any fade on it. This is like almost three years ago.

However, I don't play with the model and it is kept indoors. Also, I find the Krylon primer to be quite thick. Deltacoat Acrylic paints are cheap, but they are very hard to get into milky-like consistency therefore aren't suitable for airbrushing.

yeah well my problem was i had somthin ova nite ge ton it
and i didnt notice
but i got it painted
but the left side winbdow and left part of the bodys is screwed the rest looks ok
but my windows look kind of crapy in some areas
it may be a beat body now
i want everyone to now dont use plasti-kate paint it sucks balls
i only tryed it cause it was really cool
next body i do i am useing the good stuff so i dont have to fix it 5 time
lol