So what is your worst paint experience. We have all had our hard work ruined by a paint disaster I am sure.What was your biggest paint disaster


Mine was with Tamiya paint.Well actually it was with lacquer thinner.

I was working on a Tamiya Mercedes 1/24 kit and I wanted to paint the underside of the car a semi gloss black.It was a once piece bottom to the car and it was already black but I couldnt resist my usual urge to paint the plastic the same color it already was. I used the Tamiya black from a rattle can.I had just read an article on warming the can in hot water to improve the paint flow and adhesion.So I put the can in pretty hot water for a few minutes. I then proceeded to start spraying the part and the paint shot out like mount Vesuvius and left pools and blotches all over the piece I was painting.TO add insult to injury I dropped the part and it landed on the floor so it had dust and quite a few cat hairs on it when I picked it up (and then fingerprints where I handled it).

So what to do.I decided that I needed to strip the paint back to the bare plastic. Now my usual routine at that point was to use lacquer thinner since I was mainly working on resin kits. SO I placed the PLASTIC part in a bath of lacquer thinner and left it to soak and totally forgot about it. The next morning the roasting tin that I swiped from my wife to bathe the part in had a weird looking black fluid in it.I reached in and carefully lifted out the plastic part only to watch it slowly fold over on itself and dive back into the black goo leaving me holding a blob of melting plastic in my hand.

Oh I also has a 1/32 Mustang kit that I was painting silver and I had the canopy masked on the model.As I directed the spray over the cockpit the canopy popped off and the interior of the cockpit that I had spent hours detail painting was coated in silver paint.

SO those are my paint disasters.What are yours?

Carl