So what do you do? Buy the Krylon spray, empty the propellant, cut open the spray can and use the liquid in a siphon gun?

Are you kidding? Is that obvious? Have you actually tried this?

I was very pleased with my final results too....

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I emptied a spray can of krylon black webbing into a jar, mixed it with lacquer thinner, then sprayed with siphon spray gun. Played with the pressures and paint flow adjustment for a minute or two on paper for practice, then shot the entire cabinet and head box in about 1 minute.

I'm not sure why your paint failed. Not sure what Montana is. Not sure what mineral spirits would do to the mix. I've never heard of trying that. I'm jonesing for a new project, preferably an older EM.

I don't think you will have any problems with the oil based paints, either as a base coat or top coat. Generally, you can paint oil based paints over lacquer, but can't paint lacquer over oil based paints. But you will be applying a very small amount of paint (the webs) thinned with a very small amount of lacquer thinner. In order to do one machine (cabinet and head), you will not even use 1/4 of a can of the Krylon Marbellizing paint. I think I thinned my paint with about equal parts of thinner....won't hurt to thin less, but may not siphon out of the gun if too thick. Not sure about using a HVLP gun. I didn't try that. Crank up the pressure to about 40-60 psi and practice on some scrap. Really it's easy. Play with the mixture flow adjustment and practice moving the gun fast enough to spread out the "wisps" of paint.

Those Montana webs are interesting. I opted for the smaller, more subtle webs, hence the thinning with lacquer thinner. And I agree, keeps moving the gun like karate chops!

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I might add that I brushed a coat of water based satin polycyclic over the entire cabinet and head after the webs dried to prevent them from lifting when I did the stenciled top coats. Any clear should do, I just happened to have some of that clear satin from another project I did.