The sad reality is *I know better*. I know better than to trust any paint name that starts with the letter "K". A friend I trust (who is quite the artist when it comes to paint on a rocket) mentioned that, being tired of how long Rusto 2x can take to dry, tried Krylon Fusion gloss white. I decided to try it out and got VERY good results... almost like the old Krylon 5-ball paint. It only tended to run when I over-did an area and it dries to the touch in an hour and is handle-able in two. A decent finish. So I used said paint on my estes leviathan clone... I then used Rusto (NOT 2x!) metallic dark bronze for the forward section (in a semi-traditional look... could not find metallic charcoal like the instructions said) and was VERY pleased by the outcome. Emboldened by this, I gave my Estes Sahara (which was dark flat gray for the longest time) a sanding treatment after some repairs and worked it over with the same Krylon Fusion gloss white. I then layed out a masking pattern on the forward section and got a can of *Krylon Fusion Metallic black*.... SAME brand, SAME type - what could go wrong?. It went on just as easily... no runs... more than 7 days after the coat of white! I have seen the results (curdling!) of not waiting long enough between coats.... lacquer on top of enamel... etc. I've NEVER seen it go like this:
What this looks like is similar to the worst case of poison ivy I ever had in my life. The entire surface (that isn't masked!) is covered in thousands of tiny blisters! When I've seen paint compatibility issues before it's generally this bizarre curdling effect... And while it is a bit warm today, there is literally zero wind outside.... (it also bears a similarity with the effect you get when you spray on a windy day!)
Now I have a bit of sanding to do... sigh.
Friends don't let friends use Krylon... I'm going back to rusto because I'm too cheap to use duplicolor (2x the price of rusto 2x here where I live) or tamiya.
What this looks like is similar to the worst case of poison ivy I ever had in my life. The entire surface (that isn't masked!) is covered in thousands of tiny blisters! When I've seen paint compatibility issues before it's generally this bizarre curdling effect... And while it is a bit warm today, there is literally zero wind outside.... (it also bears a similarity with the effect you get when you spray on a windy day!)
Now I have a bit of sanding to do... sigh.
Friends don't let friends use Krylon... I'm going back to rusto because I'm too cheap to use duplicolor (2x the price of rusto 2x here where I live) or tamiya.