Post by deeno on Sept 5, 2006 22:40:58 GMT -8
Here's what I've been working on to kill the time before HB06
I wasn't real happy with the paint on my mini-focker as the ultra flat paint had a bad tendency to absorb moisture and then get damaged. I heard about using a Satin Clear coat to create a dust-like ano finish and said what the heck why not.
This time I skipped primering as primer is very porous and tends to absorb moisture through scratches. The finish of the Satin Clear is amazingly durable. I was kind of shocked. I can seriously use my fingernail on this sucker and not have any worries. It's some sort of clearish coating like plasti-coat or duplicolor rather than just a traditional acrylic clear and just like duplicolor, this stuff is THICK. It almost doesn't want to come out of the spray can at odd angles and one can covers much less surface area than a traditional rattle can. The clear darkened the colors slightly which isn't bad, but it is borderline reflective. At least for my tastes, but it's not so bad that I'll strip it or scuff it anytime soon. It's slightly dissappointing about being semi-reflective, but I looked at the bottle and noticed that SEM makes 3 types of this clear. Gloss, satin, and "Low luster". Going to try that low luster out later and then I think that will be v1.0 Deeno camo. I might actually spend the effort to make some digi stencils (probably not, I'm lazy lol)
I've also spent quite a bit of time working with the Qloader as it's my first time setting one up. Now that I've gone through it once and have all of the kinks worked it, it's really feeding like a champ. I learned a ton of tricks working through it (ie not all of the pod springs are equal. Some need more winds than others for the same tension, etc). All of the pods feed all of the balls with consistant pressure right up to the last ball and after running about half a case of paint through without any jams or snags (pulled the detents out and let the balls just feed right back into a pod), I think it's ready for the field. I might go over it all one more time ;D
I'll have some final pictures tomorrow. This one is still only partially assembled as there was a bit of minor soldering to be done to the board to fix a busted switch and improve reliability (the 9v battery connector actually had a broken wire internally out at Hoskings)
I wasn't real happy with the paint on my mini-focker as the ultra flat paint had a bad tendency to absorb moisture and then get damaged. I heard about using a Satin Clear coat to create a dust-like ano finish and said what the heck why not.
This time I skipped primering as primer is very porous and tends to absorb moisture through scratches. The finish of the Satin Clear is amazingly durable. I was kind of shocked. I can seriously use my fingernail on this sucker and not have any worries. It's some sort of clearish coating like plasti-coat or duplicolor rather than just a traditional acrylic clear and just like duplicolor, this stuff is THICK. It almost doesn't want to come out of the spray can at odd angles and one can covers much less surface area than a traditional rattle can. The clear darkened the colors slightly which isn't bad, but it is borderline reflective. At least for my tastes, but it's not so bad that I'll strip it or scuff it anytime soon. It's slightly dissappointing about being semi-reflective, but I looked at the bottle and noticed that SEM makes 3 types of this clear. Gloss, satin, and "Low luster". Going to try that low luster out later and then I think that will be v1.0 Deeno camo. I might actually spend the effort to make some digi stencils (probably not, I'm lazy lol)
I've also spent quite a bit of time working with the Qloader as it's my first time setting one up. Now that I've gone through it once and have all of the kinks worked it, it's really feeding like a champ. I learned a ton of tricks working through it (ie not all of the pod springs are equal. Some need more winds than others for the same tension, etc). All of the pods feed all of the balls with consistant pressure right up to the last ball and after running about half a case of paint through without any jams or snags (pulled the detents out and let the balls just feed right back into a pod), I think it's ready for the field. I might go over it all one more time ;D
I'll have some final pictures tomorrow. This one is still only partially assembled as there was a bit of minor soldering to be done to the board to fix a busted switch and improve reliability (the 9v battery connector actually had a broken wire internally out at Hoskings)