"Rustoleum Camouflage Spray" Topic

I've had wonderful success with the dark brown on resin and plastic. I tried the desert tan color on metal figs and it doesn't seem to stick at all. It come off like a greasy powder – I can almost shake it right off the miniature. Light handling reveals the metal underneath even after a days time to set.

I didn't do anything different to my normal routine that I've been doing for decades, but just wanted to lay that out there.

Bad can. I have used it a lot with zero problems. Take it back.

Thanks.

Agreed, bad can.

I'm a Krylon user myself, but I have no complaints about the Rustoleum camo paints (I've used two of their colors). Sounds like a bad can.

I haven't used Rustoleum camouflage on anything but terrain (canvas mainly), but I've used their primers, flat black, silver, and chrome on metal and plastic miniatures for years with excellent results. So I think it's a bad can.

So you can get camouflage spray paint now, can you ? Where can I get one from. and do they do tartan ?

@Dagwood
Check out Halfords in the UK for their own camouflage colours spray paint.

I have had the same problem with this particular Rustoleum color. I thought that I have a bad can, so I bought another one a year later and had the same result. I now only use this can for my bases, which I cover in flocking afterward. That said, the olive green color from Rustoleum, in my opinion, is the best on the market.

Can you guys provide some more specific examples where you used Krylon or Rustoleum camo colors successfully?

I have two cans of the Rustoleum tan and green camo, and it does say on the can that it bonds to plastic.

I tried the tan on GW plastic, recent plastic 40k ruins. It did not seem to cure or dry, it was staying gummy and sticky. The can is less than a year old. I also tested the same can on some old garden tool plastic, and it adhered and cured to that surface perfectly. So I know the can itself isn't bad.

I'm wondering if there's something to the idea of degreasing plastics. I've never once had to wash model plastics the way you would wash and metal metal minis. But I thought of this because I stripped those GW ruins with super clean. I noticed that after stripping the plastic surface was "drier" and looked "flatter" in finish. Some of thr sheen was taken away.

Could it be that because that gray GW plastic has that shiny sheen that it might help some sprays to soak the plastic in some kind of degreasing agent first?

As I've said, I've never had to wash plastics when using like GW spray or Testors model spray, it's always performed perfectly. For that matter I never saw any official instructions on any plastic kit to wash it before painting.

Just a thought!

Yeah, it may be the figs needed to be cleaned first. I have gone through probably 30 cans of camo spray primer. Not had a single problem. Not sure what else it might be.

Thanks.

John

no issues here and been using most of their colours on plastic, resin and metal figure/vehicles for years.