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  2. Painting problem

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

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    This problem has happened to me before. It is caused by not allowing the paint to fully cure. After your first coat, you can recoat once within twenty four hours. After that, you need to wait seven days. If you don't allow this time for the paint to fully cure, it will wrinkle, bubble, and/or crack. You just have to be patient. To fix the problem, let the paint fully cure, then with a fine grit sandpaper, sand down the imperfections and recoat it. You should be fine after that.

     

    Yeah, that's similar to what I wound up doing. I had to do several "mistings" of paint, and then after a few days I was able to lay down some normal coats and finally got it back to normal.

     

    Still, though, I am never painting that helmet again! :lol:

  3. About this canvas belt thing....

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

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    Hey, all -

     

    I'm about to get started on thee belt, as I picked up some fabric over the weekend. But first, I thought I'd ask you folks for your opinions, as all of the tutorials I've found online involve plastic or leather for the belt. It seems pretty much obvious, but still....

     

    Has anyone made one of these yet? Would I just rivet it to the plastic belt piece like I would ABS? Would you recommend I use snaps or velco on the back?

     

    Any insight would be awesome. :)

     

    Thanks,

     

    -Ryan

  4. Painting problem

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

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    I have had the same problem when I was painting a modified Kenner. I had already put on several coats of paint, I added one more when it was dry and it did that. It started pulling apart and cracking almost like it was shrinking as it was drying.

     

    I have no idea what caused it though. The most recent coat was a new can of paint, maybe a bad can? I sanded mine down and got a fresh can with no more problems.

     

    Yeah, it's odd... I sanded it down and tested a small area, and got the same result... so I did a test on a small patch of ABS (my helmet is HIPS) and it dried just fine.

     

    Could the sanding have screwed up the styrene? I mean, the paint worked fine on the other material, soo...

     

    Well, Sandtrooper it is. :lol:

  5. Painting problem

    in Assembly, Mods, and Painting

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    Ok, this is a weird one... I figured I'd ask you guys to see if this has happened to anyone else.

     

    I did some more work on my helmet last night, and decided to add a couple more coats of paint.

     

    So, I give it a light sanding, dust it off, and spray it with the ole Krylon and it looks fine. I go a safe distance away to have a smoke and when I come back, the paint has cracked/rippled in some places. It looks like the surface of a sponge. Neither I, nor anyone else I've mentioned it to, have never seen paint do that before.

     

    Any ideas as to what might have caused it? The area was smooth, there was no dust, there were no other chemicals on the helmet that the paint could have been reacting to...

     

    The crappy thing is, it looked ok before... I should have just left well enough alone :6:

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