testors dullcote

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Do I have to thin the dullcote before I spray it through my airbrush?

Thanks,
dekruif

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There’s nothing much to disassemble. There is a recessed allen head screw at the bottom of the bulb-like part on the bottom, it holds on the color mixing tip. The airbrush should have come with an allen wrench to do this. Unscrew the conical tip where the paint comes out and withdraw the head from being held by the screw. That’s about it. The color mixing part - the shroud around the tip unscrews after the tip has been removed, but there isn’t any real reason to remove it unless you are changing it for another part.

Hope this is clear, I haven’t used my H for some time now. I bought it probably 40 years ago.

Good luck!

Bob Boudreau

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Thanks,
I got it .

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I hope this helps also.

http://www.paascheairbrush.com/2005_parts/H_HS%20Airbrush%20Parts%20List.pdf

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I wouldn’t worry about thinning it. You can also buy dull coat in bottles.

Edit: I myself was airbrushing with paint retrieved from a rattle can today, and found that the #1 needle worked very well at about 15 lbs. I usually use a white sheet of paper to make sure that I have the spray that I want. I have found that paint used from rattle cans seem to “splatter” a little more, but are already pretty thin, so thinning won’t do the paint any good. If I remember right, the gloss and dull coats have a yellowi***int to them, so you should be able to see it on a sheet of paper alright.

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I don’t know if Testors has changed their formulation of bottle-dispensed Dullcote lately, but the Dullcote bottles I bought are pretty darn viscous, which settles into layers and you need to shake it up again before use.

With such a viscous liquid, you DEFINITELY need to thin it with lacquer thinner before you airbrush it.

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Oops!![:I] My mistake. I thought you were talkin’ about Dullcote from a rattle can.

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Let me tell you something there, dekruif, you sent me to my Walthers catalog; talk about missing the forest for the trees. This is no b.s.; until your post today I wasn’t even aware that dullcote came in anything other than spray cans; that is the only way I’ve ever used it.

Save money!!! You also sent me to my calculator and 1 3/4 ounces @ $2.39 computes to $4.10 for a 3 ounce supply which is the size of a spray can. And if I buy a bottle of dullcote then I also have to buy ($2.39) a 1 ounce bottle of something called Lacquer Brush Cleaner; that tells me that my airbrush is going to have to be cleaned up after use. I use bottled paint but anything that screams “CLEAN UP” to me deserves second thoughts. I think I’ll save myself a couple of bucks and stick with the spray can. I don’t know whether a bottle goes any farther than a spray can but it sure seems to be a heck of a lot easier to handle.

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There are a few advantages of using an airbrush, the biggest being able to control the flow of the dull coat. I am sure plenty of folks have had success using spray cans, but I have run into problems using spray cans of both gloss and dull coats (like splatter).

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I just sprayed it straight from the bottle with no problems.

Thanks,
dekruif

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Ahh, sweet success!!! Good on ya!![:)]

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[#ditto] here! Spray cans have too much splatter and have a tendency to leave a white cast on stuff from time to time. I’ve found the bottles of Dullcoat, thinned about 40% with laquer spray smoother, and thinner that cans.
Airbrush cleanup is easy. I paint either in my garage or back yard, with a Binks Wren hooked up to a very large compressor, regulated to about 25 psi. I keep ready to shoot paints in small resealable glass bottles that I can just remove from the gun and cap. I clean the gun with an areosol can of 2+2 Carb cleaner, just a quick shot up the pickup tube and through the gun, and presto,it’s clean!

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I haven’t used the spray cans of Dullcote in quite a few years, but if I remember correctly if the humidity is the least bit high, it will dry cloudy or foggy.