Zahnrad Kopf
Diamond
- Joined
- Apr 5, 2010
- Location
- Tropic of Milwaukee
Was going to post this in the recon forum, but it's not strictly a recon subject and think a wider audience here will be better. If I am incorrect, feel free to move it.
Painting the Monarch 10EE I am trying to finish up the rebuild on and running into an issue with one of the paints. I am not a paint guy in the largest stretch of the imagination, so need some input.
This is the "accent" color and as such is not so widely used. Long term members here might recall that I can be a bit OCD about some things and downright anal about some of those that catch my attention. Unfortunately, this seems to have have become one of them... < sigh >
So I chose a Blue for the accent color to contrast the White of the lathe's majority. I used a Sherwin Williams oil based enamel White, bought from the box store and it seems to have gone pretty well. I used this same exact can to paint the Taft Peirce No.1 that I rebuilt, as well. ( but used a Red for those accents ) The box store did not have a Blue that I liked in the same Sherwin Williams area, but said they could mix some up for me if I chose a color from their selections. I did, and they did.
It was a little weird going on, took a few more coats to cover, but overall I really liked the color. All was well. ( I thought ) Later, I would find out by accident when I went to move a part that the paint would come right off with barely any more than gentle handling. I thought this my own fault for not prepping the surface properly. So I re-painted the few pieces that marred. Long story short, I would later find out that this was not actually an oil based enamel like the other color. It was water based and needed a primer. Conversations with some people informed me that additionally it was simply a bad choice for my purposes and would not hold up over time.
Okay. Lesson learned.
Off to Sherwin Williams to get something compatible. They gave me an oil based enamel that I was told is a urethane. ( ?? ) I don't know paint. Anyway, we finally got the color correct to my liking, but I am having all kinds of issues with it applying smoothly, no matter what I do to prep the surface, the brush I use, or how it is thinned out. No matter what I do, it leaves ... well... I really don't know how to phrase it... Ultimately, it is brush marks. but they are SO coarse and heavy that they appear like waves in the paint. Heavy waves.
I finally said F it, thinned the paint out heavily, and tried a test. I painted it on thinly. To the point that it did not even really cover. I came back the next day when it was dry and applied another coat. Now, it is better, but not by very much. I am still getting really bad brush strokes.
What gives? What am I doing wrong? How can I fix this? I'll post pics later if I need to.
Thanks.
Painting the Monarch 10EE I am trying to finish up the rebuild on and running into an issue with one of the paints. I am not a paint guy in the largest stretch of the imagination, so need some input.
This is the "accent" color and as such is not so widely used. Long term members here might recall that I can be a bit OCD about some things and downright anal about some of those that catch my attention. Unfortunately, this seems to have have become one of them... < sigh >
So I chose a Blue for the accent color to contrast the White of the lathe's majority. I used a Sherwin Williams oil based enamel White, bought from the box store and it seems to have gone pretty well. I used this same exact can to paint the Taft Peirce No.1 that I rebuilt, as well. ( but used a Red for those accents ) The box store did not have a Blue that I liked in the same Sherwin Williams area, but said they could mix some up for me if I chose a color from their selections. I did, and they did.
It was a little weird going on, took a few more coats to cover, but overall I really liked the color. All was well. ( I thought ) Later, I would find out by accident when I went to move a part that the paint would come right off with barely any more than gentle handling. I thought this my own fault for not prepping the surface properly. So I re-painted the few pieces that marred. Long story short, I would later find out that this was not actually an oil based enamel like the other color. It was water based and needed a primer. Conversations with some people informed me that additionally it was simply a bad choice for my purposes and would not hold up over time.
Okay. Lesson learned.
Off to Sherwin Williams to get something compatible. They gave me an oil based enamel that I was told is a urethane. ( ?? ) I don't know paint. Anyway, we finally got the color correct to my liking, but I am having all kinds of issues with it applying smoothly, no matter what I do to prep the surface, the brush I use, or how it is thinned out. No matter what I do, it leaves ... well... I really don't know how to phrase it... Ultimately, it is brush marks. but they are SO coarse and heavy that they appear like waves in the paint. Heavy waves.
I finally said F it, thinned the paint out heavily, and tried a test. I painted it on thinly. To the point that it did not even really cover. I came back the next day when it was dry and applied another coat. Now, it is better, but not by very much. I am still getting really bad brush strokes.
What gives? What am I doing wrong? How can I fix this? I'll post pics later if I need to.
Thanks.