Sealing Pastels

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Hey,

i have just finished applying pastels to my Cromwell, and was just wondering how to seal the pastels onto the model. If i use a flat mat coat, will it alter the colour of the pastel ? (such as making it darker, or lighter)

thanks for your help

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Yep. Sure will. Most people don’t seal over pastels at all as the effect isusually destroyed by applying a top coat.

Just don’t touch the kit, or let dust settle on it.

3

Nothing looks more like dust than dust … some people do seal it, but it will loose some of the effect.

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ok thanks, might have to invest in one of those perspex boxes some people display thier models in,

thanks again

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I tried a lil’ somptin somptin, I did the pastels over one of my kits ( my jagdpanzer IV )
and went over it with a dull coat and once it dried it did darken the pastels but I went over it with dry pastels again. I wanted the base pastels that got coatd over to be like a base color if any was wiped off in like a move for say or even a kid?

It looks pretty cool.

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hmmm, i might try that another time, this was my first time with pastels, so i think i’ll take it a step at a time,

thanks for the suggestion tho, i’ll keep it in mind

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If you do go ahead and seal the pastels, and you are using an air-brush, then I’ve read you should back off 2-3 feet and mist the flat-coat on. That way the force of the spray from your air-brush will not blow all your pastels off your model. Let the flat-coat settle onto the model that way any ‘pastel dust’ should remain on the model.

Glenn