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Aluminum finish and Future

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  • Member since
    February 2003
  • From: Between LA and OC, SoCal
Aluminum finish and Future
Posted by oortiz10 on Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:34 PM
I know that the surface beneath a “metal” finish has to be completely smooth. I usually polish the plastic and use Floquil silvers. I’ve never used Future before and I was wondering if I could use it beneath the silver? I’m not doing a NMF; the aircraft was actually painted with an aluminum lacquer. I’m wondering if I can paint my primer, do the panel lines, cover it all with Future, then shoot the Floquil? Will that be smooth enough?
Thanks in advance,
-Omar

-It's Omar, but they call me "O".

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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:08 PM
Should work, especially in a dustproof area and sprayed on in a couple of thin layers.
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  • From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State
Posted by rjkplasticmod on Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:54 PM
I've never tried your suggested method, but my guess is that it will look OK, but Future over primer won't come out as smooth as polished plastic. I usually use Floquil MRR primer, which is a bit grainy. I wet sand the primer with fine paper when all of the touch up filling is done. I have applied Floquil Old Silver and Alclad2 Aluminum over this with good results, but never tried the Future. I may experiment on a scrap piece and see how it works.

Rick
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