Shoulda stayed in bed

Whatever the problem was, it doesn't seem to show in the picture. It looks OK to me.

What was wrong with it?

Rich,

  The top picture is before I coated with clear.  I didn't stop to take a shot of what happened.  The bottom pic is what it looks like now, after stripping off the mess I made.

Bruce

Bruce,

If you did in fact ruin that awesome paint job in the top picture then yeah, it was a baaaaad day. Thanks for sharing it though. Nice to see that even the artists in the hobby make mistakes.

S

Had similar things happen. I have had the best results with Tamiya spray paints. It's a synthetic lacquer.

Steve

OMG that is horrible. I cannot imagine how you must feel after putting in what appears to be many hours of work and on such a beautiful locomotive. I pray that you will be able to redo her up and get pictures of her up in here soon.

I have made some rather dumb mistakes a time or two on model tanks and one U Boat in 1/72 scale, but I was fortunate to be able to strip down and redress them all and viola, they all are now in really great condition. The U-Boat......Is at the Naval Academies Ship museum. I donated it and it is on display as are a few other subs I built.

Anyway, I do hope you get her redone......

Pete

Well, look at the bright side...

As great as the first picture looks, now you can do it all over again, and do an even better paint job.

Bruce,

What exactly happened to ruin the paint job? It may help others in the future.

Lesson learned, the hard way. Sorry about this.

I wish you had taken a photo of the damage or mistake so that we could have seen it.

Was the lacquer gloss or satin?  I've made some bonehead applications myself.  I learned that some decals hate lacquer.  Solved it with decal setting solution and another brand after a full repaint.  LOL and 20 years ago I learned that if you don't spray in a well ventilated space, you can get a condition called chemical pneumonia.  THAT was not fun at all!  Mistakes happen.  It's how we learn.  

Please excuse the delay.  

I had custom mixed the Brunswick Green from spray cans of off the shelf hunter green and flat black, both of which I thought were lacquer based.  I wondered why I got a very slight wrinkle when I dusted on the gold stripe in lacquer.  The heavier coat of clear lacquer really bit hard and there was no going back. 

While coating with enamel over lacquer is a possibility, lacquer over enamel will almost always cause issues.  50 year old enamel will often take a lacquer spray job but don't trust it.  Best to play it safe, like I should have, by locking in decals and transfers and producing a uniform level of gloss with products meant for the job, such as those made by Testors.  These enamel based sealers will never affect whatever is underneath.

BTW, the shell is back to Brunswick Green again and well on it's way to being completed by this weekend.

Bruce