Need help getting good coverage with yellow paint.I have tried most brands,but am rarely satisfied with the results.Any suggestions?Armand Premo

Armand,
Are you using a primer/base coat?
Something in a light gray?
Pierre Oliver

Armand....I assume your airbrushing........I've used both Floquil and Scalecoat......with primer (Floquil) and without primer(Scalecoat) ....Key is a light but solid 1st coat, let dry and then a second coat will properly cover.......When I tried to do it with one coat I would get runs.......Jim W.


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Need help getting good coverage with yellow paint.I have tried most brands,but am rarely satisfied with the results.Any suggestions?Armand Premo

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I guess I have been spoiled having used Accupaint.I use a primer,I have used all brands including Acrylics.I have an airbrush.I do not seem to get the same coverage that I get with darker shades.Armand Premo

Armand,

Not just any priner - the base coat under yellow must be grey or silver to get any kind of decent coverage and even there, you'll need multiple coats.

Regards
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL
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I guess I have been spoiled having used Accupaint.I use a primer,I have used all brands including Acrylics.I have an airbrush.I do not seem to get the same coverage that I get with darker shades.Armand Premo
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Armand,
Are you using a primer/base coat?
Something in a light gray?
Pierre Oliver

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Need help getting good coverage with yellow paint.I have tried most brands,but am rarely satisfied with the results.Any suggestions?Armand Premo

Accupaint yellow simply does not cover well, even over the gray Accupaint
primer to be used on brass. The yellow nose on ERIE F-units is particularly
aggravating.



SGL



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Armand,

Not just any priner - the base coat under yellow must be grey or silver to
get any kind of decent coverage and even there, you'll need multiple coats.

Regards
Bruce Smith
Auburn, AL
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I guess I have been spoiled having used Accupaint.I use a primer,I have used
all brands including Acrylics.I have an airbrush.I do not seem to get the
same coverage that I get with darker shades.Armand Premo

Armand,



Neither do I, especially with Poly Scale white, even on gray plastic. A
several light coats seems to be better than a couple of heavy coats. The
toughest application is ModelFlex in any color.



Nelson Moyer

Hi guys.



Sorry I can't speak from experience on any modern paints, back in the days I
did lot of painting using the early, lacquer bases Floquil and the standard
Scale Coat paints. I never had any problems getting excellent coverage using
Floquil flats finishes but that glossy Scale Coat was another matter
entirely. Light colors including yellows would just run off any sharp edges.
What I eventually learned as a method of applying it was to spray a very
lite base coat, light enough that the paint would not gloss. Yes this was a
bit of a dry coat but with practice it worked well. Then I apply a normal
second coat while the first was still slightly tacky. The course base coat
gave some "tooth" for the second coat the cling to.



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Armand,

Neither do I, especially with Poly Scale white, even on gray plastic. A
several light coats seems to be better than a couple of heavy coats. The
toughest application is ModelFlex in any color.

Nelson Moyer

Armand

I have been custom painting models for others for some time now and got a solution to this problem by accident when I had to repaint my house would you believe. I was trying to cover some dark blue paint on the walls, no I didn't put it there, I had tried to cover it on a number of occassions but it still bled through. He suggested painting it silver first, I was sceptical but did it anyway, hey presto, no problem blue covered and the top coat was fine.

I have always had trouble with white and yellow on models as well and tried the silver trick on them as well. One thin coat of silver over the model and then paint with another thin coat of the yellow or white seems to do the trick for me. I use Floquil and thin the paint more than the manifacturer recommends. I get very good coverage of the yellow and whites with this method. Hope it helps.

Regards
Rob McLear
Kingaroy Australia.

Guys,Thanks for all the suggestions.I have another,yet to be built, resin reefer on the bench right now.I'll let you know how it turns out.Armand Premo

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Guys,Thanks for all the suggestions.I have another,yet to be built, resin reefer on the bench right now.I'll let you know how it turns out.

Haven't done much painting of late but always had decent results with Scalecoat I, not II, which I have not used nearly as much. Can't say how it works on resin models buy on styrene I still perfer Accupaint and wish George Bishop was still with us. George was always great to work with and I miss that with him. In any case my late friend Gordon Cannon also prefered Accupaint, at least on styrene, and almost always used a coat of Accupaint Erie - Lackawanna gray as a primer cost on everything he painted. Perhaps it might work for yiou on resin kits as well.

Cordially, Don Valentine

Don

Accupaint made a primer for brass and resin -- it works better than straight AP on resin. I've also sprayed
AP over Scalecoat I primer (MofW gray) without problems.

T im O'

Hello Armand,

For good airbrush coverage with yellow paint, use a light gray undercoat. I use Polly Scale's Undercoat Light Gray (who'd a thunk it?) under yellows and also under reds, even most "boxcar" shades. Overall this results in an opaque finish coat ("opaque" meaning no ground or undercoat color showing through) with fewer coats of paint applied to the model.

So long,

Andy

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Need help getting good coverage with yellow paint.I have tried most brands,but am rarely satisfied with the results.Any suggestions?Armand Premo

I've seen silver on plastic cars that I've stripped.

Ed Mines

Try first painting with a light gray undercoat.
Scott Haycock