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[Tim Marlow]

Hi Fernando
I’ve also got one of those, but still think you need a mask, especially if using lacquer or humbrol thinners. The booths are good for catching overspray, but not good at filtering solvents and microparticles. There is also some blowback into the room when you use them....
Cheers
Tim

[Fernando N]

Hi Fernando
I’ve also got one of those, but still think you need a mask, especially if using lacquer or humbrol thinners. The booths are good for catching overspray, but not good at filtering solvents and microparticles. There is also some blowback into the room when you use them....
Cheers
Tim

Oh yes Tim you're correct on the deficiencies of the booth, only for small acrylic work I tend to use them as indoor.
For longer sessions or lacquer work I find it best to hang the exhaust hose out of the window.
In the end a proper mask or one of these is the best option:upside::
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Fernando
(ps. sorry for the hijack Monica)

[monica]

I sprayed the 1:1 in my avatar with cellulose, using a Martindale mask - like a piece of aluminium with elastic straps, with a layer of something like medical lint for a filter. If I sneezed my hankie looked like I'd had a nosebleed. By the time I'd finished it I was getting breathless, and had to use an asthma inhaler, for several years afterwards.
can be very nasty ,at times,and thats what had happened to me,then last year in winter just being do cold ,made it all go south ,
and thats what it is,will try to take more care and get things sorted,


Pete

Hi Monica,
That's a fine T34 and converting the figure will make it unique
Jim

Hi Monica, nice clean paintwork and the altered figure will set it apart.:thumb2:
ta so glad that your liking it,the figure may not ,be the greatest,but will do for this,to show what ,I wont,

Not want to be the next safety elf but a simple paint booth is more effective than a mask IMHO...
Have you looked at one of these? http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/airbrush-spray-booth
yes have seen them,need to find one over hear,which is a fair prise,
seems some think gets the word hobby added then x2 the cost,

I have a similar one for two years now, works great to keep the paint dust and vapours from the bench/room and one’s lungs when using the AB.:hugging-face:
Also easy to stow away when not needed.
Fernando

there a great idea and would help a lot as the paint vapours ,do stay about for a long time,I,find

[monica]

all good advice guys,just need to look into ,things and find them at a nice price ,:smiling:

[Tim Marlow]

Hi Monica
There is a 3M 7502 respirator on EBay for about 11 quid that’ll do you....much cheaper probably won’t work. Don’t get the paper disposable tyres they are not great and are false economy...
Cheers
Tim
PS, I’ll shut up after this and let you get back to modelling, I feel like I hijacked this a bit, which is very rude and not my intention at all....

[monica]

Hi Monica
There is a 3M 7502 respirator on EBay for about 11 quid that’ll do you....much cheaper probably won’t work. Don’t get the paper disposable tyres they are not great and are false economy...
Cheers
Tim
PS, I’ll shut up after this and let you get back to modelling, I feel like I hijacked this a bit, which is very rude and not my intention at all....

hi,Tim,all good and helpful,will have a look on evilday later on,and I need to go to,Bunning some time today as well,:thumb2:

[Guest]

Hi Monica please buy a good respirator, you've only got one set of lungs please keep them a new set is £40,000 It's something I know a bit about, I'm on oxygen 4-6 hour's a day.
Pete

[monica]

Hi Monica please buy a good respirator, you've only got one set of lungs please keep them a new set is £40,000 It's something I know a bit about, I'm on oxygen 4-6 hour's a day.
Pete

hi,Peter oh so sorry to hear,do hope your doing ok,under the condition,I will,been looking at the on evilbay ,as I,m typing this,as we always think it will be,
right wont happen to me,
you do take care and look after yourself as well,wishing you the best

[rtfoe]

Hi Monica,
Noticed you alter your figures. I do that too to get the pose that I want. Lately Miniart and Masterbox do some interesting poses but when you're set on a composition there is never a pose that fits. So the knife comes out and I'm Dr Frankenstein for a brief moment. Usually if it's done right it really comes alive...the pose that is...although I do a little "...it's alive!!!" The cat or family look at me strangely sometimes when this happens. :smiling4:

Your build is looking good and the guys have a point on safety first. I basically have a fan behind me blowing the fumes out the window in front when spraying.

Cheers,
Richard

[monica]

Hi Monica,
Noticed you alter your figures. I do that too to get the pose that I want. Lately Miniart and Masterbox do some interesting poses but when you're set on a composition there is never a pose that fits. So the knife comes out and I'm Dr Frankenstein for a brief moment. Usually if it's done right it really comes alive...the pose that is...although I do a little "...it's alive!!!" The cat or family look at me strangely sometimes when this happens. :smiling4:

Your build is looking good and the guys have a point on safety first. I basically have a fan behind me blowing the fumes out the window in front when spraying.

Cheers,
Richard

Hi,Richard ,
glad you do like my Dr Frankenstein,work,its just a matter of getting the cuts in the right places,I,find,
and some people will make a very simply mistake of a straight cut and ,not an angle one across the join,:smiling4:
there are a lot of good figures about,and getting better ,with pose,s ,but never wont you wont,I find,
theres a chap hear as well,Jim who dose some great ,Frankenstein,work on his figures as well,
I do have the window,open as well,and I find if ,I,m going to AB,I have the fan on,to keep it cool,so it dose work that way as well.
will more and make a little spray booth,close to the window as well,that will help and get a some what better mask,:relieved:

[rtfoe]

Hi Monica,
You're right about getting the cuts in the right places. Currently I have a few on the operating table...here they are...

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I've confirmed the poses...now just to beef them up.

Cheers,
Richard

[monica]

nice work,Frank,oopps,Richard ,:smiling:
there looking very good,like what your doing ,as see ,we do need to make :sick: