Re: The Sorrows of Airbrushing

At 11:12 PM 4/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello All:
>
>	The tank got a bath.  
>
>	Everything was going just fine until I got to the masking part
of the
>model.  The olive drab coat covered nicely.  Then I masked off the
>stripes with masking tape.  OK so far.  Then I painted over the olive
>coat with the U.S. Green.  After waiting for it to dry, I peeled away
>the tape...
>
>	DISASTER!  I didn't pull off a piece of tape without striping
off some
>of the paint--primer and all--from the model.	Not only that, but in
>most cases the paint soaked through tape
>
>	What did I do wrong?  

You probably didn't wait at least 48+ hours for the previous coat to dry
*thoroughly* - assuming that you are using acrylics of course . . .

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