Theuns,
SWEET! Like the plane jumped of the box art!
Don,
Kicker seems to affect ANY paint it comes in contact with.
Okay, last question, my Alcad II base black gloss is still tacky even after a few weeks.
Can I use Tamiya Gloss Black acrylic?
If so, they drying time before I can polish it with 6000 grit?
Don, I wonder why the alclad black has not cure yet, what is the weather like there?
I have used it in the winter (granted it is not northern colds) but still it dries very fast…within a few minutes.
Either try sand it, I do think it might be difficult if it is tacky and clogg your micr mesh or just see what can remove it back to plastic maybe?
Theuns
FWIW, I don’t like Alclad black base because it never seemed to dry fully for me. Even after a week.
I build the model, prime with Gunze Mr. Surfacer 1500, then spray Tamiya X-1 gloss black on it. I thin it with the lacquer thinner. On my recent F-86, I let it sit for two days on the initial coat, but I actually came back and redid the black. I layed the black down on an evening, then came back the next day at lunch and sprayed Alclad Airframe Aluminum.
My go-to clear for Alclad is their Aqua Gloss, which is an acrylic and must be cleaned with water (or it will harden in your airbrush and be a HUGE mess. According to the bottle, you can spray it 6 hours after a metal coat is layed down. I shot mine in about 4.5 hours, but I also bring my builds inside and let them dry in a pretty non-humid, 72-degree house.
Once the Aqua Gloss is dry, I add decals, and then do another coat of Aqua Gloss before my panel line washes.
I have not gotten cracked paint when flipping between Tamiya, Alclad Lacquer and Aqua Gloss. I HAVE gotten problems when I used Alclad Duraluminum directly over Airframe Aluminum on another project. It had been about 36 hours since the airframe went down, and the solvent in the Duraluminum attacked it.
I hope that helps a little. It has worked for me on two builds so far.
A note on clears: I LOVE Alclad’s Gloss Klear Kote on everything but Alclad. As it’s a lacquer, it uses the same solvent as their paints, and I have found that it changes the colors. If you lay decals down on the metal without clearing it first, then clear it, it’s basically like decal carrier film hi-liter.
Anyway, here is the F-86 I mentioned:
-BD-