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2 pack isocyanate is deadly with out a air fed mask or at the very least a proper professional paint mask,also a proper extractor booth and screens .I use it on model car bodys and its great and very shiny and hard though a bit thick on smaller items ,I dont spray it for more than a few minutes at a time ..There is also the new water based auto paints ,also sometimes called 2 pack which uses a water based paint and a clear coat .The clear coat can be something like Halfords /Hycote car spray or 2 pack Iso .Great paint for modelling but delicate until its clear coated which acts as a bonding catalyst .You could clear coat it ,then apply any lining ,then satin coat it or whatever . www.hiroboy.com sells water based paint in the UK in small quantities but mainly racing car colours ., For GWR green for instance you would be on your own . I often used Scalecoat 1 which is a resin based paint .Uses Xylene as its thinner .I used to bake it on US brass and it came out a rich strong gloss which was fine for decaling .Basically it seems to me ,the smellier and more deadly it is ,the better it stays on .Enamel is probably best and safest unless you have the equipment,premises, and skills to use the others properly .

 

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QUOTE (Richard Johnson @ 24 Oct 2008, 14:33) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>*** I really like Scalecoat paint - it has a superbly fine pigment and gives a superb finish - but I really dislike using xylene as I find it too hot a thinners in general. I always very successfully thin it with white spirit as the "cooler" nature of the white spirit as thinners gives exceptional flow - I do the same with floquil.

I have to agree 100% with your comment re the smellier they are, the better they stick - I find exactly the same!

Richard
I didnt realize you could use white spirit with Scalecoat 1 ,I will have to give it a try .
some possible cross reference on paint names .Cellulose in UK =Nitro in USA.
2 K isocyanante =Urethane=poly
enamel = lacquer
clear coat lacquer= ??????
emulsion =latex?
2 pack can mean several different paints ,such as 2 pack spray cans which are a dull base coat and a clear lacquer,usually on mettallics
2 pack waterbased car paints =base coat and clear coat, which can also be 2 pack in itself !! .The US also use poly as a name for some other paints but not sure what .Acrylic also has several meanings ,acrylic waterbased paint like Liquitex,Cryla and poly S (I think),and acrylic car paints like Halfords which are also Cellulose thinners compatable .It seems a real mine field out there and its important to get it right as often one lot can strip the other but not vice versa .
Enamel will go over cellulose but not the other way round .cellulose will attack plastic but if sprayed fairly dry may not .

Anyone care to give a concise list ???? Please feel free to contradict what I have written ,its not set in stone .I may well be wrong about some of it ..