After a recent episode of spraying ModelMaster Enamel paints and having russian armor green clouds lurking in my basement for an hour or so I have decided that it is time to construct a paint booth.
I am in the information gathering stage right now. I have searched the site and web and have gotten a few ideas and plans. If anyone has any adviceplanspicssuggestions, they would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Brian

Hi Brian,

I don't have any plan to give to you but I can give you some tips that I heard over time.

- Some people take a big plastic box and put computer fan for the exhaust. In my opinion this is for little works.

- Then most people, I think, build their own with plywood or compressed wood, then they add a squirrel cage fan. Many people say that squirrel cage fan type are the best because the electrical motor as away from the airflow, so you avoid fire risks with thinner and all chemical stuff.

For your fun, mine is basiclly a cube. It's all plywood, except the front where I putted a movable (Up, down) Plexiglass plate, and the top is also a plexiglass plate to allow lighting. The fan is screwed on the back panel, covered with an aluminum pipe that makes a 90 degree turn, than plogued on a drying machine soft pipe that goes out by the window.

It's important that your exhaust pipe is wide enough for your fan, otherwise you'll get problems. Also the shorter is your pipe, the best it is because the airflow moves out more easilly.

For the dimensions and shape of the box....all depends on your needs. Mine is 2ft wide, 2ft deep and 18 in of height. Of course I don't need that much room to paint a 1/72 tank, even not a 1/35, but because I'm also in airplanes and love big ones, I made it big.

What you can do to get ideas is search for "spraybooth" on Armorama.com with the search bar on the top of the page. There are many people showing their own.

Good luck.

Philippe

Hi Brian

If you can get your hands on the September issue of Model Military International Magazine, there is a good article in there on building a spray booth for relatively cheap using particle board and a bathroom fan.
I am planning on building one similar to that, but upgrading to a more powerful squirrel cage blower type fan (good but $$$) and modifying the body of the booth to support a filter.

This site seems to be very helpful when trying to design your own booth:
http://www.briansmodelcars.com/tutorials/tutorial.asp?TutorialID=23&CurPage=1

As Philippe said, there are articles here on Armorama as well on how to build varieties using rubbermaid totes. it can be as simple or complicated as you want tto make it.

Jamie