Just used alclad II aluminum on my trumpeter 1/32 mig 19. I used alclad gray primer as the undercoat. Despite this, the aluminum paint seemed to craze the surface (the surface was rough and extremely non metallic, at any rate). Black undercoat with polished aluminum shade worked better but not great. A disaster in other words (and the model was perfect). The gray primer undercoat seems like it would work well for any other finish, however.
Best primer for Alclad is Krylon Gloss Black. It’s lacquer based and has never failed me.
Great looking B29, swanny
What shade(s) of Alclad did you use?
excelent swanny
Swanny, those are both beautiful aircraft
alclad is supposed to be sprayed over primer prefferably acrylic. then the primer ought to be polished with fine (2000grit ) or micromesh, and then alclad.
theoreticallty it is ossible to spray directly over plastic if you spray from distance and fine atomization, (well i managed the fuselage and left wing but then disaster stiked and a heavy alclad sprout melted through everything at the right wing converting plastic to pulp giving a rough orange peel effect.
I used a primer. In fact, I used ALCLAD’s proprietary primer, and still got surface damage. By the way, which krylon -regular gloss black or the special “adheres to plastic” variety do you recommend?
Hmm… I have read elsewhere here that people have used the Testors Enamal gloss black successfully with Alclad-- will this kind of thing happen with this??
I used enamel primer disaster, acrylic perfect…
I have used Dio-sol Barrier and/or thin coats of an automotive lacquer based primer/sealer to protect plastic from being eaten by lacquer paints. Lacquer based Dio-sol is getting harder to find, but if you can find it their primer works very well as a protective coating. Aply it in thin coats. It sands nicely.
The best results I have gotten with Alclad has been with a gloss black acrylic as a base coat. I used it to put a chrome finish on a set of car bumpers and got great results. I’m going to practice and experiment with it a little longer before I try it on an airplane.
That B-29 looks great. rangerj
Hmm… bought some Krylon and sprayed it on…now that it’s dry, the Mustang seems sort of rough as lplanch has said…not what I would normally imagine…it looks almost as if dust had fallen all over the wet paint (which it hadn’t as I covered it up right after spraying the paint. Any ideas before I proceed with the Alclad II??