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Old 08-13-2012, 05:30 PM
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What is a good starting pressure to start with for them ?. I am kinda new to these paint's..thank's all...
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I spray around 30 psi for lager areas, 20ish for medium shading, and down to 10psi for light shading.

Using a Talon, and reducing 50% with windex.
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Originally Posted by frankiecmgt
What is a good starting pressure to start with for them ?. I am kinda new to these paint's..thank's all...
Best to play around on a scrap bit of lexen....that's how i got the hang of it now i can choose by the sound when i im setting the regulator.. That way you can get it to suit your style...

The thing i find with Faskolor is every bottle is different one bottle of Teal might spray nice at 20psi then the same color different bottle you might have to go up or even down in PSI to get the same... Thinning will give you a more constant spray.... But being newish it can be daunting that's why i suggested to have a few test runs to get comfortable with the paint..

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Ive been hearing windex more and more lately, is there a specific kind you need to use, or does the normal blue windex work?
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Faze- use the regular windex and thats it...just give a squirt or 2 in the cup of the paint holder on your airbrush, thats all i use it and it seems to work for me after all these years,lol.
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Going to have to give that a try.. Ive actually never thinned down my Faskolor before, because when I do and try to spray it, it always splatters when it hits the body (think to much thin paint hitting the body, then the air moves the paint and causes a splatter look)... But when I did thin them it was with water, so that may have something to do with it?
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THANK'S ALL, WAITING FOR MY PAINT'S TO GET HERE FROM A-MAIN AND THEN I WILL START TRYING ALL THAT HAS BEEN SAID. KEEP THE COMMENT'S COMING .
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Going to have to give that a try.. Ive actually never thinned down my Faskolor before, because when I do and try to spray it, it always splatters when it hits the body (think to much thin paint hitting the body, then the air moves the paint and causes a splatter look)... But when I did thin them it was with water, so that may have something to do with it?
To high of a psi/ to much paint flow. Water makes it spray funny IMO.
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Awesome, well ill give the windex a try and post back my results.
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Please don't use Windex for thinning. Windex is a HOUSEHOLD CLEANER, not a paint reducer. Only use FasKolor FasReducer or AutoAir 4011 reducer. Windex will not compare. And I spray at 35-40 pounds for pretty much everything.
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I tried windex today on a practice shell... Worked well... no complaints.
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I spray at 30 for large areas and 10 to 20 for detail and shading. I mostly use 50 50 windex and water. I like the amonia free windex. I have tried 4011 but i like the windex better.
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I noticed the paint fumes smelled a little better to while spraying lol. Smelled like windex, rather than the nasty smell of auto air/faskolor.
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