Post by PeterW on Apr 15, 2006 18:08:20 GMT -5
Hi all,
While I was in my local model shop getting some Pacer Canopy Glue I had a look round the paints to see if I could find a good touch-up paint for the black edgings you get on a lot of cameras and which always seem to be chipped.
I bought a couple of small 10ml pots of Tamiya's acrylic paint. X1 which is gloss black and X18 which is semi-gloss black.
As this Easter weekend's been horribly wet so far I tried them out yesterday on a couple of badly chipped cameras and so far I'm very pleased. I sanded the edges of the chips very lightly with very fine rubbing paper and touched in with the paint using a fairly full small brush. It stood out rather when I first did it, but when it dried the paint shrunk down to a very thin coat. This evening I blended it in with a few very light rubs with Brasso metal polish wadding, polished it and then gave the whole edge a light coat of wax. The touching-in is almost invisible.
I haven't tried it on something like the top plate of a black SLR that's rubbed down to brass, but that will be the next stage. I think I'd have to take the top plate off and paint the whole thing, and that will have to wait till I get my airbrush back in commission. I got a new needle for it, so it's working OK, but then I found I'd bin and gorn and lorst the adapter from the airline to my baby compressor, and my local shop hasn't got a suitable one, so it will have to wait till I find one. I don't feel like shelling out for cans of compressed air when I've got a compressor, and in any case you can't regulate the pressure with a can, it's squirt or bust!
Peter
While I was in my local model shop getting some Pacer Canopy Glue I had a look round the paints to see if I could find a good touch-up paint for the black edgings you get on a lot of cameras and which always seem to be chipped.
I bought a couple of small 10ml pots of Tamiya's acrylic paint. X1 which is gloss black and X18 which is semi-gloss black.
As this Easter weekend's been horribly wet so far I tried them out yesterday on a couple of badly chipped cameras and so far I'm very pleased. I sanded the edges of the chips very lightly with very fine rubbing paper and touched in with the paint using a fairly full small brush. It stood out rather when I first did it, but when it dried the paint shrunk down to a very thin coat. This evening I blended it in with a few very light rubs with Brasso metal polish wadding, polished it and then gave the whole edge a light coat of wax. The touching-in is almost invisible.
I haven't tried it on something like the top plate of a black SLR that's rubbed down to brass, but that will be the next stage. I think I'd have to take the top plate off and paint the whole thing, and that will have to wait till I get my airbrush back in commission. I got a new needle for it, so it's working OK, but then I found I'd bin and gorn and lorst the adapter from the airline to my baby compressor, and my local shop hasn't got a suitable one, so it will have to wait till I find one. I don't feel like shelling out for cans of compressed air when I've got a compressor, and in any case you can't regulate the pressure with a can, it's squirt or bust!
Peter