Out with the Old and In with the New

It has been more than a decade.  It is realistic to expect the quality of the product (consumable at that) to have degraded over the years.  However, being the optimist (or cheapskate) that I am, I was determined to give the spray cans a go.

Unfortunately, it didn't turn out all too well.  The paint particles simply didn't travel far enough nor were they spread out consistently enough.  I could tell when I pressed the button. 

In the end I had to spray closer and much longer and this ends up clogging the details on the models.
Not a good sign.

Fast forward sometime later, I took a "un-used" spray can and test it as well.  The result is a little similar.  The jet of paint particle / air was stronger but it still gave very little coverage.  To make matters worse, the paint is now leaking out from the nozzle.

That is a lot of spray cans gone to waste :(

  I guess it is pretty much a done deal with these cans. Which is a pity as I have quite a lot of them and most are likely not going to work.

For the varnish, I'm not keen to test them out on a model that I have.  If it turns out to be a bad can, it might just completely ruin the work I put into the model.  Perhaps, I can use them to varnish terrain pieces.....

Now then...there is the paints...