what is the best color undercoat before putting on the aluminum plate?
i heard someone say gloss or semi-gloss white was good.all help is appreciated.
p.s.-my first nationals! it was great!!!
As one who has used buffing metalizer before, I can tell you truthfully you don’t really need any undercoat. But it is highly recommended to polish your plastic before applying the metalizer. I just rub down the plastic surfaces with a clean patch of old cotton t-shirt, that is usually all it takes to make it super-smooth.
don’t use anything under the metalizers,i did a beautiful buff job on a dc-3 ,i primed a p-47 and tried to do the same and it messed up bad,i think there was something where Testors tells you not to paint the surface first
I agree, no under coating necessary.
lone…need some help on painting a DC-3,have just started Revell’s DC-3 and am having a hard time trying to figure out how to cover the windows so that they won’t get paint on them since the fuse will be together and the seam has to be worked on before you paint. Hope I’m making sense,I am beginning to worry about myself,but I’m lucky since they have a place for people like me here where I live.
CPO aka Pat…[banghead]
I have not used metalizer in a long while. I’m learning to use Alclad in my last few projects. But I do wonder, does metalizer need to be sealed? How does that change the sheen? Is it safe to decale over unsealed metalizer? Do you trust unsealed or sealed metalizer with masking? Overall, why would someone use metalizer, say, over another aluminum-like product??
The moment you put anything over MM metalizer, it’ll change the sheen. Yes it is safe to decal over but you take a severe risk at damaging the finish if you are not real careful.
I constantly will use one shade over another to tint the base color effect. Try Alum Plate with a very light mist of either steel or Titanium. Just because there are straight metalizer colors does not mean that they are the end all. Metal and Aluminum plates oxidize and or shine at different rates due to varying environmental factors, stress and internal heat.