I don’t remember where but I read about products called Flotrol and Gesso being used in scale models.
What are they used for?
Gesso is a product that is used to prime canvases or wood panels for fine art, and I have no idea why someone would use it on styrene, unless for dioramas using non-styrene products? Gesso, in rare instances, can also be used for sculpting, though there are much better products available specifically for that use.
Flotrol is a bladder control supplement, so keeps the modeling area sanitary? [^o)]
Thank you, I’ll be here all week. Try the veal. [:D]
flotrol is also product is in reducing paint for spraying. available at home depot, scuse me gotta go now.
True, but not nearly as funny!
I use gesso or acylic medium to model sea surface when doing waterline ship models. Because of the stiffness and thickness, one can form it up into “waves” and ripples. Also does a bow wave and stern waves very nicely.
WAY back in the day, (when I was painting condo’s for a living) I used to use Floetrol for latex paints that were too ‘draggy’ i.e. didn’t lay down off the brush smoothly. You can do the same thing with Linseed oil and Oil based paints.
Might they have been talking about using it as an acrylic retarder?
Wagner makes a product called Paint Easy which must be similar to Floetrol. I read on one of the airbrush forums that some folks have found that it works pretty well as an acrylic retarder. So I suspect you are right.
Don