Polar Lights Batmobile

Hi John I use and have always used halfords grey primer then the enamel top coat never had a problem before I wonder if Polar Lights uses a different plastic and I tried scotchbrite this time but didn't work

This has happened to me before and it was when I sprayed it with too thick of coats. I always have a hard time with black. Also maybe this kit still had chemicals from the plant. I've seen some pretty greasy looking PL kits.

So the primer AND black is air brushed....HMMMM I bet the paint is attacking the plastic then....The only other issue I can say is maybe the mix of air brushed paint, as well as some chemical from the PL plant might be all "mixing" in a bad way here. Ice may have a GREAT point! Sadly, IF thats the issue, the only way to "stop" it is to stripe the whole lot, then clean off the stripper with good ol' kitchen sink dish detergent and then "LIGHTLY" primer it, AFTER its dry from washing of course and then hit it with another LIGHT coat of black, see what happens, and if all goes well, hit with a medium "wet" coat of black.....Leave set, and go from that point, what PSI you running your compressor on to spray this? might want to drop a couple PSI too.....to get a finer spray this time....

Ice is right black for whatever reason (I think its the pigment in black thats fine) and allows it to spray HEAVY at times or until the nozzle slows down flow from build up.....Holding to close, and moving the Air Brush to slow will allow the paint to build up quickly and you add all these factors together and bad things happen!

Ok all I know its been a long time since I updated this but its not been forgotten I have tried mr muscle, modelstrip and even nitromors
and this is what ive got.









I've spent half the cost of the model on stuff to get the paint off. It doesn't show on the pics but there seem to be little holes in the paint that go right into the plastic, I think the paint has bonded with the plastic and actually soaked into it, which is why it wont come off so I think my only option is to sand it and try spraying it again I will just have to live with whatever the results are. its a shame as I was really looking forward to this one.

KP,
So you say the paint has little "holes" in it that it looks as tho it mixed with the plastic? WELL thats a dead giveaway! The paint you used did in fact attack the plastic.....I would wet sand it with some to the tune of 800 or more grit sand paper, LIGHTLY just to smooth it, and then give it a GOOD primer cover and see. if the paint did NOT come off with a good paint remover for such, that means it did actually get into the plastic, and this "attack" isn't reversible that I know, you can only work with it and smooth the car out enough to paint, IF you have Future it would be a GREAT "Barrier" BEFORE ANY paint is added now....As it too can be buffed flat to except a good coat of any paint there after....

You also have to remember how much are you willing to get into on it as well.....As you at this point have a lot tied up in it already!

What did you use to try to remove the paint???

Polar Lights sound as tho they use a really crappy styrene mix in their kits, (I have NEVER built a Polar Lights kit so....) But this might be a determining factor as well as the one I was looking at came with "stick on stickers, and not true water slide decals.....

The thing as it seems is, you needed to "seal" the plastic from the paint, meaning that the plastic Polar Lights used was a lesser strength plastic (AKA, solvents can get to it, and attack it) And once you get that seal made....ALLOW the paint to not only "dry" but "CURE" this will make a permanent seal and then ANY paint can be put on top of it...BUT do not do "heavy" coats of solvent based paint as that too can re-soften the good seal you made!

You may have it licked man! A trial and error on your part, I'm sorry, but a valuable lesson to the rest of us that may have gotten into building a Polar Lights kit! (A teaching tool so-to-speak)

Looks great so far!

Hi guys well checked tonight and that's another coat that seems to be eating into the plastic again (and it was a light coat) so I think I will spray it with acrylic leave that for a couple of days then try the enamel again, it's not anywhere near as bad as it was so don't want to risk another coat of enamel yet.

I don't get onwith acrylics and all my paints are enamel not going to change for one dodgy kit

Hi all giving up on this paint job its reacted again, so I'm going to do something different with it.
Batman is forgotten all his wonderful gizmos and gadgets have fallen into disrepair, including his trusty old batmobile.
That's going to be the back story on this model now.
So will start tomorrow with a renewed enthusiasm for this build

Hi all well this is going back in the box and being buried at the very bottom of my stash.
as I was warned the decals are awful and do break up but they also dont stick.





it must be a draught that moved the decal as I hadnt touched the model when I took these pics.
so I have had it with this kit. I was going to do a dio of it on a dereclect street all rusty with weeds growing out of it but with no decals to show what it once was it would be a pointless dio, could be any car with no decals.