Flat coat over gloss black

I haven't used Life Color clears, but unless you happen to have got some of a bad batch it's possible that the clear isn't the problem. A couple of things come to mind;

Mixing - some clears require quite a bit of mixing & without it the flatting agent in the clear will often produce a whiteish finish.

Distance / pressure - if your spraying distance or air pressure were excessive this would cause the clear to start to dry mid flight, when this happens the paint is too dry to level out & create a smooth finish.

It might be worth experimenting a little away from the subject to see if you can get better results, if you can, you may find that hitting your F-117 with another coat of clear will sole the white finish you have.

Thanks I will play around with it again today and do some more experiments

If it's simple hazing, this is very easily fixed. Apply a coat of clear gloss and the hazing should disappear.

If your flat coat went on clear and wet and dried to a hazy finish, I would be leaning towards insufficient mixing/stirring of the paint before reducing (thinning). At a stretch, humidity may cause similar problems.

My flat coat of choice is Gunze's Aqueous Clear Flat H-20 - luckily this is still widely available here in Australia.

Thanks for the help guys, today i mucked around and tested a few things out. whilst doing experiments i came across a Vallejo flat clear coat and gave that a try. after several tests with thinning the coat down i found the result i was after on a black surface. i then sprayed the plane and all is good :)

tomorrow i shall continue on with the last few things and then start work on the base. when the plane is finished I'll try to get some pix up!!

i had a similar problem with a black 1/24 scale sprint car, painted it, put decals on, weathered it, sprayed the clearcoat and turned almost everything white....my clearcoat was old, that was the problem with mine.