Where do you spray your models?

[maxHiLux]

Maybe a strange question but certainly now the days are becoming shorter and there's no light outside anymore when you finally having time to get to your hobby (ie after the kids are in bed) I was wondering how and where can I do my paint jobs. The wife will kill me if I go for it in the living room, but our study/hobby room is to small (because of all the Tamiya & Faller models :-) ) to do a serious spray job. So how do you all do this?

Max

[steviedee]

i'm pretty lucky i reckon as i live above a large supermarket, i got lot of rooms and i use on ein particular for spraying my models in, just make sure you open the windows [xx(]

the rooms a technicolour masterpiece from the over spray []

[gozone]

We have a shed, in conjunction with our house, which i have turned into a "hobby-workshop". Our oil furnish (spelling?), is out there, and if i still need more heat, i have got an electrical heater oven i just switch on. I have made a sort of "spray-cabin", made with a thin kind of tarp-like material, which i can roll down from the ceiling, kinda like a curtain, to stop the spary dust from filling the entire room. Furthermore, i only have the cars otu there which are current projects, or runners, so the restored, old ones are stored in closets on the 1 st floor of our house. I can go out there all by myself, and stay "hidden" for hours, without either wife or son to "intrude".. When i am in the workshop, disturbing is not allowed, LOL...

Cheers.

Michael

[mr_pushrod]

I'm in halls at university so I just go into the corridor and hope that there isn't too much overspray! usually works out ok apart from when security were informed there was an odd smell coming from my flat, lol.

[Shodog]

at work we had a building that was empty so I had several offices I could use that were pretty much dust free. No i have my garage which you have ot be carefule about the dust in. my thought is I wanted to get a refrigertor box to make into a spray booth.

Jim

[Stefan(2)]

In the kitchen, in between plastics "everything for a good sprayjob! lol

Mmm, but not to bothered about the floor anyway, considering it is going to be

replaced all soon.

First i used the shed, but way to mutch dust (the sandblaster makes a mess!) , so i went back

inside.

Stefan

[larbut]

I use the old bath room !

Turn on the ventilation fan on max, cover the floor, and as much as possible of everyting else (old bedsheets will do), and turn up the heat :-)

There will be a considerable cleaning job afterwords, but because it is the bathroom, it is esaily done. (simple wash)

Lars

[jozza]

You can buy or construct small spray booths for painting models, with a fan and extractor tube (I think that Tamiya themselves might make one). Then you could paint almost anywhere. Nowadays I do all my Lexan painting with Faskolor, being water based it doesn't smell much at all. The only problem I get is with overspray, it seems to get everywhere!

[scoobs]

Inside.

If I spray on the outside the paint just comes off when I remove the plastic...

[jesterdude]

Ive conerted a tiny 6ft by 4 ft into a hobby workshop. I just hang up an old sheet to seperate my tools and bits and bobs so they dont get covered in overspray then spray away. Got power in there so light and heat is no probs.

[addict again]

well, I am spoiled!! I have a downdraft paintbooth. I am a journeyman painter (1:1's) by trade so I get to spray my models in there. They come out very clean and I can even turn the oven on and bake them at 140 deg. F. [] [/img]http://www.tamiyaclub.com/getuserimage.asp?t=n&id=img2700_02042005025149_2.jpg

But when I am home I spray in the garage with a box fan running.

[DimmaDan]

I have a bench with a roof and sides made of cardboard in mt garage.

Got my compressor out there along with a 1.5m strip light i got from work.

Saves getting paint all over the house.

[DJTheo]

I used to spray inside in my old appartment but now spray outside on my terrace (water the floor first before) because overspray seems to get anywhere, also discovered that sometimes in a room you have more dust then outside, also for me a good daylight is more important to watch coverage then few little dustle particles, but thats just my compromise, anything other then a real paint booth is one... [V] Of course I try to paint only when its relatively warm and dry outside, only when a project is extremly urgent I paint it also in winter, but then warm paints and body inside the house before and after each layer.

Cheers