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  • Member since
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Just a mess
Posted by nsclcctl on Monday, October 20, 2003 9:00 AM
I tried something, and it is not working. There was a cool post about 2-3 weeks ago and do not get me wrong. It probably does work nicely but not with all paints. I am working on a Japanese zero, 1:48 from Tamiya. I wanted to do the beat up chipped look. The reference said to apply a silver primer, apply future, apply your top color, wait one hr and use tape to pick off paint. Turns out, I would guess not all paints lay well on future. In this case, I painted the bottom the light grey and that was actually fine, two coats laid on well. I then airbrushed a 1:1 mix of the Modelmaster enamel japanese jungle green. It ran like crazy, even getting under masking I had applied. Now granted, 1:1 may have been too thin but that is what I usually do. My guess is, the nature of this color just is not amenable to being laid on future, it probably needs the flat primers that I usually do. Anyway, I have a grenn glob mess and now am trying to figure a way to clean it up. I will say this, I have never seen panel lines so accentuated. The paint ran right off them. Panels are somewhat green after 2 coats and the lines are silver.

Anyway, it was an experiment and now I have to try and clean this up to make it respectable. No harm, just didn't work in this instance.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 20, 2003 3:08 PM
I would venture to guess that your paint was way to thin. I have sprayedTestors paint over Future with no problems but I have never done it within less than four or five hours.

Good luck and happy modeling Fred Amos
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  • From: West Grove, PA
Posted by wildwilliam on Monday, October 20, 2003 3:11 PM
how long did you wait between applying the future and piutting on the green?
i usually wait 24 hours (or 20-22 hours if i want to get SOMETHING done the next day).

ed.
  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Winsted CT
Posted by jimz66 on Monday, October 20, 2003 5:24 PM
Try that method from FSM a few months back with the Helldiver, where he used a steel wool pad, that is the direction I am going in. I think it might be worthwhile. It might be something to think about. I don't know what issue it is in, but it is in the same issue as the Tomcat weathering article from Darren Roberts I think is the last name.
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    January 2003
  • From: Washington State
Posted by leemitcheltree on Monday, October 20, 2003 9:37 PM
I've never had that problem before..........I always allow Future to dry at least 24 hours before overcoating.
You're probably right - your top coat was probably too thin. I'd use modelmaster thinner to scrub off the green - the Future will protect the plastic, then try again.
Good luck
Cheers
LeeTree

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 21, 2003 9:55 PM
The Helldiver article appears in the February 2003 FSM.
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