toofastrobot
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Luckily I haven't started painting my helmet yet, but when testing the new paint, I've found that my airbrush is spraying intermittently. It sprays just fine in a regular spread with no spattering when it does spray, but after about 2 or 3 seconds of spraying only air comes out. Occasionally instead of just spraying air it'll will spray very very fine lines until nothing comes out at all.
I thought it was a paint/thinner ratio issue, I tried 1:1 then 2:1 paint to thinner, both produced the same results. I'm using Humbrol acrylics with humbrol acrylic thinner. I'll try and upload a video to show better what I'm talking about, since googling the problem didn't yield anything useful.
It was spraying just fine with Tamiya paints and since I just dropped about $50 on all these humbrol acrylics I'm really hoping its not the paints themselves. I should also note, when the paint stops spraying, if I release the trigger a little bit, more paint seems to pop out like normal.
I thought it was a paint/thinner ratio issue, I tried 1:1 then 2:1 paint to thinner, both produced the same results. I'm using Humbrol acrylics with humbrol acrylic thinner. I'll try and upload a video to show better what I'm talking about, since googling the problem didn't yield anything useful.
It was spraying just fine with Tamiya paints and since I just dropped about $50 on all these humbrol acrylics I'm really hoping its not the paints themselves. I should also note, when the paint stops spraying, if I release the trigger a little bit, more paint seems to pop out like normal.
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