TAMIYA SPRAY PAINT TS1-TS102 100ml
TS-paints are for hard plastic :
These bodies are strong often up to 3mm thick and are made usually from strong ABS plastic. This type of body is common on Scale realistic crawlers and in many older style Tamiya Nostalgia Kits. Hard Plastic bodies usually need some preparing work before the paint such as sanding or attaching some body parts. It is very highly recommended to use fine primer paint before the final spray! Pro-tip! Use high grade masking tape. Cheap brands may let your paint bleed through!
Tips for painting with spray paints:
Never paint in hurry! You are going to watch this paintwork many years so reserve time. Total process of fine paintwork is usually few days or more from start to finish! Take your time.
Never paint in too humid air rain or too cold. Any of these will easily ruin your paintwork.
Wash the body with mild soap and let it dry overnight.
Make a painting plan. What paint and in what order? No I need to re-mask?
Prepare your body and the painting area. Use masking tape or liquid mask.
Check out everything. Did you mask everything that was supposed to?
You can put the cans in warm water (not hot!) to build up more pressure inside the can. Never exceed +35 Celcius degrees here!
Shake well. Like really well. Then shake some more.
Paint slow but steady and keep the can approx 20cm away from the body. Always start and finish the spray outside of the body. Use paint sparingly.
Let the paint dry few minutes between the layers. There is no hurry! Never try to make it with one shot. Tamiya paints are fine and thin and if you spray too much before previous layer is dry there will be runoffs.
If you make a mistake stop! Do not try to fix wet paint! Let it dry sand it out and continue again later.
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