@J Cummings posted:I several follow on questions about homemade oven/bulbs/heat and baking time. My homemade oven is 24L x 12W x 20H' lined with 3/4 inch foil backed styrene insulation and using two 75 W bulbs. From cold start to 10 minutes heat is 155 degrees; 10 to 20 minutes heat rises to 225 degrees; 20 to 30 minutes gets to 240 and then 30 to 40 minutes to 250 degrees. I allow oven 10 minutes preheat time ( about 10 minutes). I spray a piece and hang in the oven. I spray additional pieces and hang as well. I bake everything for 40 minutes; unplug oven and allow pieces to cool. Enamel paint (using Hennings train enamel) is baked hard, BUT lacks the luster of the other pieces I see on this thread. Am I baking to long? To hot?
It might just be the humidity and temperature during spraying and not the baking process. The warmer it is, the faster the paint dries which reduced the sheen. Same thing happens when it's humid outside. Another thing is the primer, how smooth is it? Did you sand it before top coating? If not, that might reduce the sheen as well.
