I used acrylic paint to paint my model and after that I sprayed lacquer over it so it becomes non-water soluble, but then I noticed got biji biji forming on my paint. My paint is black, and the biji biji is white, so my black runway suddenly become like the sky, got white stars, haha.

What am I doing wrong?

PS: Acrylic paint is so hard to use. I rather use enamel, but then again, my personal choice. Just wondering, can I spray the lacquer over the enamel? The hobbyman in my hobby shop said can, but I doubtful...

Hmm... the one I'm using is Testor's 1260 (Dull Cote Overcoat Lacquer), it was recommended by the hobbyman. So if I can't use this, what can I use to coat the acrylic? Because acrylic seems to flake so easily and cannot be protected at all, that's why I was hoping to spray some overcoat.

Can I still salvage the part that I destroyed (ie the biji biji part). Good thing I tried out first before coating the entire model.

PS: The Testor is the spray can wan.

PPS: I thought the rule was Acrylic over Enamel over Lacquer? So Enamel can go over Acrylic also? Can Lacquer go over Enamel?

PPPS: What overcoat can be used to coat both Acrylic and Enamel?

Edit:
I managed to wash off both the lacquer and acrylic paint with thinner and resprayed it with the undercoat paint. And I tried overcoating the hull (which I painted with acrylic paint as well) with the same lacquer overcoat, but this time spraying it at a larger distant and use lesser volume, and wahla!!! NO biji biji. I think the trick here is to use less lacquer so it doesn't melt the acrylic and when that layer of lacquer dry, put another layer...

Wat do the sifus think?

Question: What is curing? How do you cure acrylic?

This post has been edited by Lucifer_Light: May 24 2008, 07:03 PM