I need to seal my 1/35 huey with a clear coat so I can add decals and weather it. I usually just use testors gloss cote because it comes in a can, but I also read about people using future for this purpose. I have a bottle, but since I don’t own an airbrush, can I just paint it on with a brush? If any one can give me advice or techniques on this, I would appreciate it since a can of gloss cote is expensive and is good for like one model. I’m afraid that just slathering on future would result in an uneven mess. Does anyone have experience with this, or should I stick to the gloss cote?
Use a new brush, and keep that brush seperate for future use. A brush that has been used for painting “normal” paint will be disappointing. Wide and soft bristles is the idea, not a round brush. Brush with slow, even and deliberate strokes. Future self levels nicely.
Ditto the above, I just did that for my P51D. Wide soft brush, set aside ONLY for Future, clean with some windex and plenty of water afterwards. Important to let the Future CURE for at least 24h before you start applying anything else. Also clean the model before you Future, it WILL show any lint or dust accumulated in your model. I have a can of compressed air I use for that, and have a box (with a lid where I keep the kit after Future exposure. A tupperwarre will also works. Hope this helps, Jim
What the guys said about having brushes used only for applying Future, and for them to be as wide and flat as possible. Another thing is, make sure you use clean cleaning water. Adding Windex is good, but I tend to just add a few drops of liquid soap, and that works fine, too.
One point is to make sure that the coats are very thin. Although you should leave at least 24 hours before applying anything over Future, and at least 3 days before masking it, and then only with Tamiya tape, you can safely add extra coats of Future after an hour.
As a result of ignoring my own advice, somewhere in the Hornby ofices in Margate, Kent, is an Airfix/ Heller 1/72 Dragon Rapide in Automobile Association markings that I built for Airfix for their display for the London Toy Fair in 2006. If you look very carefully, you can see tiny little black flecks all over the yellow of the model’s yellow-and-black finish…[#oops]
where I keep the kit after Future exposure. A tupperwarre will also works. Hope this helps, Jim