New Future name ?
Believe it’s currently “Pledge Revive-It Floor Gloss --Original–”…unless they’ve changed the name again.
Was formerly known as Pledge FloorCare Multi-Surface Finish, originally known as Future,
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My input on the question is that I’m pretty much in the same camp as people who say “Future is for floors”. Much better alternatives available these days.
I am not sure what you are planning to do with Future (whatever it’s current name is), but I advise caution.
A number of years ago I used it as a clear coat. The Future micro-cracked after it cured. I think that the red paint was not fully cured when I applied the Future.
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If I may offer a clarification, that’s a caution to make sure whatever paint is on the model’s surface has cured, before applying Future-or any clear coat medium, for that matter. It’s not an issue with Future itself. As far as I can tell, from using Future as a gloss coat since the mid-90s, Future is inert and doesn’t react with paint underneath it. I use it regularly over water- and alcohol-based acrylics, over enamels, and sometimes over lacquers, too.
I tried using the new Future (Pledge Floor Care, I think) a few years ago when I was just starting my recently completed F-16CJ build. I airbrushed it onto the parts of the main gear well that I had airbrushed with Tamiya X-2. Due to issues with spare time at that point, that Tamiya X-2 had a little over 3 weeks to cure before I put the Future on it…and a week or two later, I could see under bright light that the coat of Future had developed a nasty spider web of cracks in it. It may be due to the “newer” formulation of Future, but it cracks, even on fully-cured paint. The newer formulation has also proven to react badly with Bob Dively’s Liquid Mask on canopies. I ended up having to use Novus to polish all of the crazed Future off of my nicely-painted canopy, and ended up finding out that nothing looks better than a canopy that has been polished with Novus.
Now that Pledge Floor Gloss (nee Future) has been discontinued, what are the " much better alternatives "?
Robert Carr
Pretty much every maker of paints and other products for scale modeling makes a gloss coat product (and a matte coat product). Off the top of my head, I think of Tamiya’s X-22:
https://www.tamiyausa.com/shop/acrylic-paint-23ml/acrylic-x-22-clear/
and Vallejo (don’t have a link handy). I don’t use either one, so I can’t speak to their quality. I’m sure others will have their own suggestions.
Personally, I’m a big fan of all 4 of the different clearcoats made by MRP. In cases of clear-coating NMF such as Alclad, AK Interactive makes Gauzy Agent Shine Enhancer. It doesn’t react badly with Alclad like many other clearcoats do. For canopies, I don’t believe in dipping them in acrylic like many do. To me, it looks like crap. I prefer to use Novus and polish my canopies for optical clarity. The Pledge Floor Care I have left does have its uses though. It makes the best adhesive for photo etch parts that aren’t being edge-mounted, and also makes the best adhesive for small, clear parts such as HUD glass. I know people swear by PVA glues for that kind of thing, but theres no comparison when it comes to being completely invisible. I imagine the Gauzy Agent Shine Enhancer I mentioned would also make a great adhesive for those applications.
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