What's On My Workbench?

Finally sat down and started putting some paint on this today.

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I got a few colors on and then I notice some paint flaking off. I scraped my fingernail on it and the paint came off in chunks.

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I don't know what happened...I used acetone just like Scott suggested. It must have been the primer...I don't know. The collar has an area where the resin was coming off in layers, but that can be fixed with Apoxie.

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Soooooo...the question now, is how do I remove all this paint/primer? Steel brush? Any suggestions would be great because I'm kinda bummed right now.
 
Why did you use acetone ?

I had a similar problem when painting my dullam head i used a marker to paint the pattern on the forehead and it came out crap so i tryed to spray over it but no matter what i did the pattern
after the marker poped right back i even used automotive primer but to no succes

I then took the head and tossed in the bathtub i used hot water and some of those spunges with a green hard side on them and started to rub it down.
it were hard work but all the paint came of.

what kind of primer did you put on it ?
 
I used acetone because the resin was kinda slippery so I wanted to remove all the mold release. I don't know which primer I used but that has to be it. I've got some great automotive primer now, but dag nab it its gonna be a bitch getting the paint off. I can put it in the tub and scrub away, but its foam filled and if I get too much water in there, I don't know how it ever dry out.
 
Just to clarify

i didnt fill the tub and toss it in i just laid it there and used hot water from the shower and rubed away :) i also had it fully foam filled with construction foam the stuff that dryes very hard

It always sucks when these things happens the positive side it that its resin and its almost always possible to repair it

good luck my friend i hope you get the stuff of
 
Well you did get most of it cleaned off. Time to start over then. The times I've seen resin slippery, the resin itself had gone bad and paint would not stick to it no matter what I did to try and clean it.
 
Onto beer #4 now...

Ya the head has lots of small scratches from the steel brush so there ain't no more stickiness to the head! Gonna go crack anuther beer...
 
ouch! The steel brush was a bad idea. I would have suggested a scuff pad. I wash all my resin parts with dish soap and water.
 
The small scratches might be filled in when you paint it. If you use one of those "gap filling" automotive primers, that will go on a little thicker to fill them in as well.
 
I'm not worried about the small scratches...they make it easier for paint to adhere to the resin and you can't tell by looking at it unless youare less than 4 inches away. Even then, it blends with the look of the skin so its all good...

And yes this head was washed once with soap and water and then again with acetone. I will conquer this sumbitch...
 
Jason... Acetone will melt plastics.. Just use soap and water .. You can remove extra with 99% alcohol
 
I recived my resin elder today and yeahh it does need a real washdown

its stunningly beutifull the neckring is a bit compressed in the back though but looking of pictures of yours it looks quite the same
 
Time to get back to working on some Pred stuff! It was -24 outside and as you can tell my garage isn't insulated but I chose to get my P1 stunt cleaned up. I dressed in layers and got busy.

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Unfortunately the goggles got fogged up and I had to take them off and ended up getting bits of resin in my eyes. I can still feel the grit on my contacts.

I planned on also doing the P1 head that Juan sent me, but after 2 hours on my second P1 Stunt both of my rechargeable batteries were dead and well...I was frozen! More to come after I drink some hot chocolate and get some heat back into my body...
 
Jason, I can barely see you in that first pic with the camo hoody. You blend in so well with the car :D Love the look. You should do to the grocery like that...

I was running into the fogging issue, as well. Think I may be ordering some 500 PSI Mask Defog for my work goggles and my bio lens...

So, where are the actual progress shots on the P1?! You're killing me here, you tease! Ok, back to work on mine...
 
Wow. Working in an unheated garage at -24 degrees takes a lot of dedication. How come you can't work inside? I can see being kicked out of the house if you're spray-painting with Rustoleum Brain Cell Destroyer Primer, but just using a Dremel tool can't be all that bad.

I think rechargeable batteries don't last as long in cold temperatures. Then again, neither would I if I were trying to work in the cold.
 
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