Paint booth

Donny Abston
Not sure why the picture are sideways not on my phone.

Spanjaard
curious to know if it works well 🙂

Rui
Looks pretty good to me...even sideways 🙂

I recently got into the hobby again and put together a workspace. I built an interim cardboard spray booth with no frills other than a clip-on LED. The whole thing is a little pathetic, but I'm just starting out and need to learn the ropes. I have not considered a fan or ventilation and now I am starting to get concerned; I see a lot of people have them. I'm only working with acrylic and not often either because I like brushes, so I figured ventilation isn't a big deal. My workspace is in a large open basement area with a return air and fresh air intake so build up of fumes isn't a concern either and I wear a mask. Is there anything I have over looked that would suggest I should go the fan route?

Cheers!

Spanjaard
if you only use acrylics, with brush, and have good ventilation, i think you are totally fun
when you use things like Alclad, with airbrush... so better get at least a good mask (a real one, no the kind you wil use with Covid). that is why i am thinking on getting a paint booth

Donny Abston
you should be good .

Donny Abston
And thanks @Rui Da silva i just wish I would have had thinner plywood in my stock than using my 3/4 for it

Donny Abston
@spanjaard ill post a video if I can once I get the wall cap and duct work done ..it stuck the model top box up and hold it till its turned off

Alec K
Just my 5 cents: Having an exhaust booth is a must for anyone spraying model paint indoors IMHO, regardless of what kind of paint you spray. There is NO safe paint, acrylic or otherwise. Wearing a mask is always a very sensible idea, but I wonder what happens to all that overspray in a closed room.

Donny Abston
Yep.i agree but not if just brushing imho

Donny Abston
finally got to paint in the new booth lol waiting on my lights to get in

Rui
Since my comment last March I have purchased a small spray booth and a Honeywell mask with organic vapour filters. I feel a Lorre safer now spraying various substances. The booth is portable so I can bring to upstairs to a window but I plan to keep it in the basement and build a proper filtration unit for it with activated carbon and filters so I don't have to bring it upstairs. If it works well I Amy build a larger spray booth because the portable one is pretty small and cramped. I'm hoping for more space to do larger scale kits and yes…thinker plywood would be better ?

Donny Abston
Good deal.. rui good luck with it and keep up good work hope it all works out for ya yeah I have mine exhausting out of the building ill post more pics in morning show you how it's set up

Donny Abston
@Rui Da Silvia ...check out the new pics of how I have it exhausted out

Bill Newcomer
With enough exhaust you can probably forgo the mask. The key is if you ask your wife if she can smell paint in a nearby room.

Rui
@Donny Abston...thanks for the pic. Looks pretty good. My problem is that my workspace is in the mechanical room of a basement. No windows but over 75m2 (~800 sq ft) of space and it's where the fresh air intake is located. So I have no problem getting good air in; it's getting bad air out that's the issue. I thought of going through the floor but there is the wife factor to worry about. So, I'm going to try building a filter (starshipmodeler.com/tech/pa_booth.htm). I'm not very handy, so we will see how it goes. @Bill Newcomer thanks for the pointer; I will use the wife sniff test to see if the filter I build works.

Donny Abston
Man if you look thats kinda what I built myselfv

Rui
Ya your booth does sort of look like [img1]

I'm hoping the indoor filter will work. Looks easy enough for me to build [img1]

Bill Newcomer
I think what you have is quite a good start. Here is the one I overbuilt that is still "portable" with plenty of light, variable speed and no air restriction.
Paint booth | Album by musclecarfan (1:25)

Donny Abston
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Jv
I built myself a cheap home made sprayboth
Uesing a rangehood whed a 2 speed fan
And got some 16mm melamine from the hardware
Uesing geo fabric as a filter
Just to use a sprayboth I find is not all
I will be building a dying cabinet plumed in to my existing
Rangehood sprayboth
Whed a sealed door
On both
Paint releases fumes for days
And so will the overspray in the both

Jv
You can see it on my wall in the mustang build