Saving money with HOK
If your in it for the long run you have to stay with one system. There are enough colors and thier systems to kill a wallet quick. I tried Createx and Autoair, I think Autoair is made by Createx, they took forever to dry. Then I saw where you have to heat set each color. They were 3 times the thickness of HOK to achieve full color. With 20 colors on a helmet, it's easy to do, would you rather step back and slug down some suds for 15 minutes or stand there with a heat gun. It's been 85 to 95 degrees here.
Not to mislead people but I ran out of laquer thinner that I could paint with so I used PPG's 870 reducer with HD's laquer paint on a test panel and 1 hour later no reactions. This is not recommended by any means. But it worked.
My point is that you buy PPG for one job, Dupount for another I had stuff left over from other jobs and what are you gonna do with them. I'm new to airbrushing and have spent $1500. on custom paint, airbrushes and airbrush paints. Since I went with HOK, I don't even get to down a half beer and HOK airbrush colors are dry. I can lay a half dozen colors in an evening now. Most of my time is masking, unmasking and cleaning out my brush. The lifting problem with other airbrush paints are gone.
I'll still use the Createx and Autoair but I'm know we're gonna need mo suds. later...