Hey guys, I come to you very desperate
I’ve been really struggling to paint me clear parts with a clear blue paint. My Meng Magach 6B has clear periscope parts, which I was instructed to paint with clear blue. So I got AK real colors clear blue lacquer (the only clear blue I could find), but, I’m struggling.
At first I tried to apply it via a very small thin brush, very little at first, but the paint simply didn’t stick, at all. It just swam around the rims, not sticking or absorbing into the clear plastic. I assume it’s because there was no primer (I can’t prime the clear parts after all, it won’t be clear anymore). So next I tried to use more paint, but, that was a stupid mistake, as the paint simply pooled on the part. I thought I should let it dry for a bot and just dump out the excess, but, it just came out looking horrible.
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So next I tried using my airbrush. I tried to apply the clear blue which I thinned on some unused scrap clear parts as a test run, but again, the color barely stuck, and it was also barely even visible. It was like I was spraying slightly blue water on my clear parts. So in desperation I simply put undiluted clear blue into my airbrush, but it just totally clogged my brush and almost ruined it.
So, that’s where I stand now. I’m completely lost. I have no idea how to paint my periscopes.
I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but I’m certainly doing something wrong.
Can anyone maybe point me in the right direction? I have a ton kits with clear part periscopes that I’m going to have to paint down the line, and that seems so daunting when I can’t get it right at all.