Help with paint mix

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F-16fun

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After mixing the paint with the water and aplly the paint on the figure the paint join the paint in bubbles, like it have elasticity and not cover the surface.
Can anyonehelp me ?

Tks
 
Have you washed the figure prior to painting? If there's any oil on the figure this can cause the paint to clump/pool and not stick.
Carl.
 
Antonio,
sounds like the figure may still have chemicals on it, that stop paint adhering to it.

These chemicals are called 'mould release agents', and are designed to help the figure release cleanly from the mould.

wash with warm soapy water, let dry, and prime your figures; should be a good start.

Prime your figures means to apply a 'primer' coat, usually from a spray can.

light coats of spray, several times, not heavy coats.

Then when the primer coats are dry, you can start painting.


All the above means that you have a clean figure, and you get to enjoy your painting more.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
 
The figure was cleaned and washed and then applied primary...even in the paint palette has this reaction.
 
Did you throughly shake the bottle to mix up the paint before hand as when using either Andrea or Vallejo a thorough,thorough shake up is required ?

I didnt ask which paint you were using sorry

Ive made the mistake of not doing it and I got semi unmixed paint coming out and the results were the same as yours and the paints bubbled and did not spread evenly across the model but sort of pooled.

Sounds like the paint was too thin to start with

My 2 pence/cents
 
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