- Member since
July 2004
- From: Texas
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Posted by wbill76
on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:40 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by jessiahkinnamon
WBill I did apply a glosscoat before like always but as soon as I sprayed the mud on I got that silvering effect I am going to try to stencil the IFOR , the decals must have been pretty cheap because I applied two coats of gloss, oh well Ill fix her up thanks for the comments everyone. MJohnson this is the Tamiya Iraqi freedom Abrams w/ Dragon decals which I will never use again because of the silvering that occured Ive got three more abrams kits to build this was a practice shot to see if I could paint the NATO paint scheme, Im pretty satisfied and feel like I can take on my Leopard 2A5 now
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Jessiah,
Wow, that's pretty unusual for Dragon decals in my experience. What did you use for the mud? For Dragon decals I will usually apply the second gloss by brush after the decal has set for about 10 minutes...it seals it in against the 1st coat and also helps snug it down. This sets overnight and then I apply the dullcoat. Have to be careful with it though as sometimes older decals disintegrate. Maybe you just had a bad set of decals?
Either way, if this was a testbed for painting camo, it served it's purpose very well!
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