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Howdy all,

Having a problem here, and I'm wondering if there are any ideas out there.

I'm using a brand new Grex Tritium.TS
Badger Minitaire Sky Blue, not thinned at all, straight into the cup
PSI is 20

I did run several cup fulls of distilled water through the Airbrush because it was new.

My models came out like this; It looks like there was grease or something on the figs, but they were clean...

Any thoughts?





Thanks much!

v/r
Bill

The primer was Valejo Surface Primer, in white.

I did get the effect on a test piece of plastic I had, but I thought it might have been because it was un-primed.

I thought I shook it pretty well, I had it on my shaker for about a minute or so... Maybe I need more?

Thanks!

Ahhhh, ok. Thanks for that.

In my newbie-ignorance, I was dilaing the pressure down a bit thinking it was going on too fast/hard.

I shall certainly try to dial it up tonight.

Thank you!!

v/r
Bill

Ok, I guess I figured this one out. It was bad bottles of paint.

I tried to shoot this at higher PSI, lower PSI and thinned a bit. Shook the heck out of it too. Nothing changed. My test strips all came out the same way, to one degree or another.

I shot a different paint (minitaire lagoon blue this time) and it went on fine. It's not the color I want, but it went on perfectly. 2 images to share here, one is the paint cup where I found a blue mass in the light blue paint. I then poured the bottle out into a tin pan and it was flecked with these dark blue 'chips'





So, I am going to order another pot of this color from a different source and see what happens.

Thanks for the help and good ideas, everyone, I appreciate it!

v/r
Bill