Re: KPack's 1954 Panama

Posted by kevinpackard On 2020/10/6 12:29:13

Don - the lacquer thinner left a slight hazing on the plastic. I figured it would, but other materials (like paint thinner) wasn't doing anything at all. I kept the lacquer thinner to a minimum by dampening a q-tip with it and cleaning off the old paint that way.

I've stripped plastic objects (models) in the past by leaving them in an isopropyl alcohol bath overnight. While it does get the paint off without melting the plastic, it does tend to leave a bit of a haze sometimes, and that wouldn't work with what I was trying to do.

What I should have done is made a mold of the front and back of the emblem, then made my own with acrylic to test out different techniques to paint and restore.

And thankfully I was wearing gloves for the painting. I masked the helmet with my thumb when shooting the red, hence the red thumb.

-Kevin