Morris Mini Cooper 1275s Mk.1 build

Peter Jenssen
Started this one about 5-6 years ago as Mr Bean's car.
Had a major issue with paint clumping.
Was put back in the box for quite a while now.
Started sanding a bit, see if it can be salvaged..

Steve Wilson
Hi Peter...
Did you airbrush or hand paint it??? It sounds like you hand painted it using acryllic paint.
Trouble with acryllic is, it starts drying/curing as you paint, now that's ok! for airbrush though...
But if you hand paint it it's, best to use enamel such as Humbrol, the drawback is it takes a long time to cure.
You also leave fingerprints if you handle it, even years later🤔🙁

Peter Jenssen
Airbrush with bad paint and possibly wrong thinner..
Formed big clumps and strings of goop..
Best paintjob I have is an enamel hand painted Aston Martin I did as a teenager.
New brush and new can of paint. Don't know how I did it, but you can't see a single brush stroke... 🙂

Steve Wilson
Sounds very definetly like the wrong thinner...
I hate it when that happens, especially when it's the last tin/bottle I have in that colour.
If enamel is thinned to the correct consistency...
The finish you can get with a brush is awesome, a new unopened can should be perfect, but it can (not always) depend on how long it sat on the shops shelf. I say not always, as I bought a job lot of thousands of tinlets of paint about 5 years ago from a Model shop that went out of business, some of them were donkeys years old and still as good as new, yet some and some newer ones, had set rock hard in the tins... luckily only a few about six tinlets I've had to chuck out.