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This is driving me nuts! Within a few brief moments of the paint going down, it bubbled and pitted across the entire top hull. I would have been done if it had gone down smooth like it should have...

Starboard wing


Port Neck area close up.


The paint was room temp and mildly shaken, the hull was sitting in the sun for no more than an hour... The surface was totally clean and smooth...

Any hypothesis or ruminations on this issue? I can't keep going thru this bull! I was finally done, damn it! I could have wrapped it all up tomorrow!!!

At the same time, I'm VERY glad this is happening to this easy kit and not the CMK, AMK or the EVAP that are on their way to me! Better to get my chops down on this bird than those others. But I just don't get it!

It's been total voodoo the entire way!!!

This Testor's goes down way thicker than I am used to from the standard generic paint I am used to, so that could easily be part of it... But I did that across the entire surface and it only appeared in two major parts, the rest of this latest surface is utterly smooth -it's a patchy problem at best. The port wing is essentially perfect withe the same amount of paint down.

Could it really be propellant 'caught' with the media and then welling up on the surface? I did get close with the can... Why bubbling and pitting?

My basic method is to paint in a circular motion (wax on, wax off) and cover the surface. The last time I did this same technique and same density, it went on like silk and was mirror smooth.

When I saw the bubbling beginning to appear on the starboard wing I did an extra pass hoping that would tamp it down -it didn't...

You're right, pitting is the wrong term. Those are closer to air holes. But they would have to be popping under the surface. I watched it occur, the hole simply 'opened', or spread. There was no 'bubble popping' as with boiling water for instance...

In this case, I was about a foot, likely just under as there was a wind carrying the spray around. Despite the proximity and thickness, there is no blobbing or dripping whatsoever -as I would expect with over-thick paint going down. I've never seen anything like this with any other brand of paint I've used. All other paint that I've gone too thick with simply blobs and runs. I've seen plenty of fish eye before, but never bubbling like this. I used the same method on the lower hull and had no problems, the only difference -the paint company /temp, technique, wind all similar circumstances.

I started with a circular motion off the model and ended off the model. I did not do straight passes in this case, though I do in many cases. I learned not to start on the model as that initial burst of spray can throw a blotch down.

But would these factors create this kind of bubbling and not drip/blobs? It seems you may be on to something in that gas of some sort must be getting trapped under the paint somehow. But why? The wind in this case? The temperature of the paint and surface were too different? I know cold spray can go down ugly...

Tomorrow I sand it all down again, air-blast and damp-wipe the surface down. Then she cooks in the sun along with the spray can. Let those both heat up for at least an hour and try again.

Just hope I have enough paint left at this point to do a complete pass. With my luck...

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Davehb wrote in Scotthm's thread:
The cloaking device probably took off the Romulans new paint coat before it had dried

Hey just thought perhaps thats why your having problems?

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Of course! Genius strikes! I'll simply drill the hooks into the ceiling, hang some fishing line and say I built the Romulan version and the cloak is activated when anyone asks!

Finished!

Thanks sooo much dude!

I've got the last coat of gray on the D-7's hood. It was 24 hours yesterday. I wanted to give it until today to tape the top off for green touchups. However, I am going to wait until next weds or thursday to be sure. I ruined one other 'final coat' by draping saran wrap over the top. I can wait.

One nacelle simply popped off the other week. I waited to glue it back on as it is much easier to paint the body without it on. I popped the other nacelle off the other night to match. I will slice the doodads off this weekend. My replacements are in the mail this coming monday.

Then it's mask the decals, glue the last parts down and hang it over my computer here!

I'm considering magnets for the impulse deck as I may want to repaint the hull top over again. It's not a perfect coat, but close. The Klingon dead haunting the hull are still there, but the effect is a minimal blob. I am sure that a few months from now the whole area will be fully cured. I will then slice any blemish there away, trowel some quality filler on, re-sand and paint.

Some more info in a bit along with a few specific shots.