Hi all.
I’m trying to find out what people use as tried and proven enamel or acrylic clear coats over enamel base colours, as well as what paints and thinners for filters and/or washes over these clear coats.
I understand you’re supposed to use the opposite type of clear to the base colours and then the opposite type of filter/wash to the clear coat, but I’ve been having bad luck with that theory and now need more details.
Cheers!
Like many modelers, I use Future for a gloss top coat & Polly Scale Flat for a flat top coat. Both are acrylics, but can be used safely over cured enamels or lacquers.
Regards, Rick
I have been using J.W etc Right Step for a while now. It’s a water based acrylic varnish, comes in matte, satin, or gloss, and can be brush painted or airbrushed. When airbrushing, I cut it about 50-50 with distiled water.
Dries rock hard and crystal clear.
http://www.jwetc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=33
Chris
I had never heard of the “opposite” theory. I doubt if enamel or lacquer will work over acrylics.
Anyway, over enamels I usually use Testors Glosscoat or Dullcoat. I have also used thinned polyurethane varnish for a glosscoat.
I must have at least 50 models where I used MM flat lacquer over cured Tamiya acrylic paint. The last one being my 1/72 HMCS Snowberry, a long and intricate build where I wouldn’t have chanced it if I thought there was any chance of disaster.
I use both Tamiya acrylic and MM enamel, and as long as both are fully cured I have never had a problem.