Varnishing Disaster! Help Urgently Needed Please? (Pic Heavy)

[Paul]

I'm pretty sure it will be a reactivation issue resulting in, effectively, a much thicker coat. I only singled out the Humbrol as I know that is a solvent based varnish and that others have had issues with it before when applying other things over the top. It is certainly quite possible that it is Pendraken stuff that has been reactivated by the Colourforge and then the mix could also have reactivated the Humbrol and created the perfect storm of catastophe

[Atheling_2006]

I'm pretty sure it will be a reactivation issue resulting in, effectively, a much thicker coat. I only singled out the Humbrol as I know that is a solvent based varnish and that others have had issues with it before when applying other things over the top. It is certainly quite possible that it is Pendraken stuff that has been reactivated by the Colourforge and then the mix could also have reactivated the Humbrol and created the perfect storm of catastophe

Yep. enough to make me possibly walk away from the hobby. It's not just that though. for health reasons I've had to spend 662 days in isolation and this is really the final straw. I'm not going to do anything silly but I really do think I've had it with the hobby.

[FreddBloggs]

If you are not enjoying it, it us not a hobby, it is work.

[Atheling_2006]

If you are not enjoying it, it us not a hobby, it is work.

I was enjoying the painting. I was not enjoying sub standard products,. described as Deluxe Matt Varnish and reassured by the seller that is was a very flat matt (which was not ture at all- it was at a minimum satin veering towards gloss!)! TBH, none of this would have happened if the varnish had been as described. I'm bloomin' furious about the whole thing.

I've been painting for decades and have never had anything like this happen to me. Much of that at high end professional.

[Peeler]

I might have missed it, what type of paint did you use on the horse?

This is almost certainly the last nail in the coffin for me. I'm walking away from the hobby.

Oh dear no, don't do that.

[Atheling_2006]

I might have missed it, what type of paint did you use on the horse?

This is almost certainly the last nail in the coffin for me. I'm walking away from the hobby.

Oh dear no, don't do that.

662 days ago I started shielding because I had to or I would almost certainly face death. That still holds true despite me taking advantage of all the vaccinations. It's been a year of hell and isolation- the only thing keeping me going was miniature painting.

I feel like I'm going to have to find a new hobby. This project has been two months at least of hell, very badly cast miniatures (thanks Footsore!) with most of the miniature pitted due to the moulds either being worn out or the metal being too hot- I have that from a caster who knows his stuff and every miniature I have received from him (and there are a lot) are like chalk and cheese by comparison. Then to be sold a lemon by someone who assured me that their Deluxe Varnish was very flat matt when in fact it was satin leaning towards gloss! You couldn't make this rubbish up!

I'm done.

[FreddBloggs]

I admit, these days I very much have a quality over quantity philosophy.

High tin metals will pit much easier, but they also give better detail, so you have to watch the balance.

[Jeremy]

The hobby should never be hell. Put it aside the minute it even vaguely starts to feel like that and do something else. Or take a break.

Hobbies are fun. They are not work.

[Atheling_2006]

I admit, these days I very much have a quality over quantity philosophy.

High tin metals will pit much easier, but they also give better detail, so you have to watch the balance.

They are not high tin at all. They are merely badly cast. Metal too hot or moulds too old. The whole £400 batch was like that. Compared to some companies like the beautiful castings I get from Aventine for instance, their castings are frankly crap.

[FreddBloggs]

On a 400 quid one, serious ouches, no wonder you are peeved.

I would be as well.