Our Latest Acquisitions 2017-2025

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This Jan/Feb 2025 edition of FSM…

Which would’ve prevented this… Oh well, better late than never…

Acrylic weathering disaster over Lacquer Gloss over Acrylic Basecoats

Hi Folks, I’ve recently returned to the hobby, and am going about “ruining” some cheaper 1:72 kits before tackling something more detailed. I hobby in a common area of the house, so am trying to keep the smells of solvents of my hobby to a minimum. To this end, I’ve used Tamiya acrylics for my basecoats, and attempted to protect them with a TS-13 spray lacquer so that I can then wash/weather with acrylics (the plan was to move onto airbrushed lacquer or enamel clear coat after the rattle-can w…