I need someone to paint for me

[lo51merc]

Yup, I'm finally admitting it. I'll list the reasons for my statement, and you guys can decide for yourselves if they're good enough for me to have made it.

I returned to car modeling just over two years ago. I spray paint from a spray can, in my yard. It seems that there is always a breeze just when I go out to paint, so that's strike one. Strike two is a biggie. My wife constantly complains of the smells associated with my modeling, especially when I'm spray painting. This was the main reason I stopped building models around fifteen years ago.

I could spray paint in the garage to stay out of the wind, but you just read strike two so that isn't an option for me. Strike three really is out because of strike two, and that would be if I could paint with my airbrush. I've had it for many years, and I bought a nice little compressor a couple years ago. But, I've never used it, and I usually spend so much time on each model that I'm scared as hell that I could ruin all that work with bad paint.

So there's my dilemma, plain and up front. If anybody would volunteer to paint my (model car) bodies for me, I would pay fairly for your time, supplies, shipping, and whatever else you'd need to do the job.

I hope there's someone out there that can help me out. Gary

[moparmarc68]

Gary, I might have an idea for ya. Both Greg and i have made cheap paint booths for painting indoors. Here is a link to the thread with both of them:

drasticplastics.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=help&action=display&thread=1444

This takes care of the outside wind problem and if once you paint your models using the paint booth just leave it running for a while and place your parts either in the booth or close to it and it will continue to draw the fumes out of the house while its gassing out. Couldn't hurt to give one of them a try.

[lo51merc]

That's a nice paint booth Marc but I couldn't ever paint inside the house (wife). My problem right now is painting the "Tiny T". Getting spray from a rattle can into the firewall and inside the nose is the biggie. Plus the fact that I can't get the color I want in a spray can. Gary

[moparmarc68]

That can be frustrating. Have you tried going to an auto parts store that supplies paint to body shops? They can mix any color you want and even slap it in a spray can for ya, not cheap but always an option. As for the wife, I just wait for mine to go to bed for the night, fire up the booth and do my painting and by morning there is no evidence I did anything LOL. Of course I also use lacquer paints most of the time so they are gassed out in a couple of hours.