"It's too damn humid and hot" Topic

Move to Texas they said. Yes it's hot but it is a dry heat. Absolute bull hockey!!!! 90+ degrees with over 70% humidity making for a heat index of 100+ degrees. I can't prime or seal a damn thing. I suppose I will have to do brush on primer for now and the same with sealer until the we get the blast furnace of July and August. Ah well first world problems and all. This is really holding up my painting cue.

After years of shunning it I finally tried Army Painter's dip. Just brush on dull cote after it dries and voila, protected and finished.

But yeah I think you need to move to AZ or thereabouts for the so called dry heat.

First time I went to Arizona it was raining.

Amarillo, son. ; )

DM

"But yeah I think you need to move to AZ or thereabouts for the so called dry heat."

All too true. Supposed to be 120 degrees today. Dry as a bone. Couple more hikers died because they didn't pay attention to the severe heat warnings, sad really.

It was amazing when I first arrived in Dallas back in August of last year and I was able to get so much primed and sealed. Yes it was hot outside but the air was bone dry and everything went down on the figures perfectly.

I tried to seal a bunch of 15 mm WW II tanks just a few days ago and everything went on fine. A few minutes later and there was that cloudy sheen. I know all I have to do is wait until we have some low humidity days to hit the models again and it will clear but damn that was frustrating.

Don't think I will be heading out AZ way any time soon. I'm still new to my job and need to put in a bit more time before moving on.

@ Don, I might be heading up to Palo Duro and therefore Amarillo this coming week to do some site seeing.

Kallman, I'm sure when they told you move to Texas, they didn't mean the Gulf Coast.

Not quite as hot in Georgia but I was using Gesso to brush on my primer this morning. Great way to beat the heat.

Hey Glen, no I am in Dallas the Big D. So the terrain while flat is scrub and stubby trees, prickly pear cacti and the like. It is amazingly green for an area that is supposed to be semi-arid. Not as green as I am used to being from the North Carolina Piedmont, but not what I had expected either. The Gulf Coast is a good eight hour drive so I do not know when I might get around to seeing that part of the Lone Star state.

I'm afraid that the joke is on you, kallman. You moved to Texas in the second of two of the wettest years on record.

You'll see brown soon enough. Maybe YEARS of brown. Enjoy the green while it lasts.

When I visited Arizona in 2004 it rained. Then again when I visited Virginia a couple of years earlier a draught broke whilst I was there in August, and the same happened in New Mexico inn 2013. I'm beginning to see a common denominator here. By the way, currently sitting at home in England and yes, it is raining!

It's more obvious if you fly cross country, Kallman, but I-35 is a sort of dividing line: woodlands are the climax vegetation to the east and grasslands are the climax vegetation to the west. Come to Colorado's Front Range: when we spill water, we just ignore it and it evaporates in a couple minutes.

Wait, I guess this is another factor to take into consideration. I'm planning on retiring in three years, and moving back to where the family is from would put me in an area that can get really humid, too, and I'd have problems sealing figures.

Grelber

Well you could move to Lubbock if want the dry heat. But then you would be in Lubbock.

And I second that I35 is some kind of mystical dividing line.

I'm in San Antonio, and I was able to do some spray priming yesterday afternoon. Humidity was down to 45%. Fist dry weekend in months though.

Hey Gear Pilot at least you were not in Houston from what I understand with all the flooding. I will third that since coming to the Lone Star State that 1-35 does appear to be some strange mystical lea line or some such. Plus the lanes to merge onto said highway keep strangely shifting and changing every few weeks.

Not sure what is up with that.

I lived in Houston for five years. 98 was often the heat and humidity during the summer. My advice is use brush on sealer/primer/paint--in air conditioning. Skip aerosol cans of anything until November.