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                        Taking the shine off of NMF

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                        HawkeyeHobbies
                        • Member since
                          August 2006
                        • From: Neenah, WI
                        Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:35 AM

                        Easy as pie, just mist on more SnJ Spray Metal...it will take the shine back down. If you want to keep it to a specific panel, mask first then spray.

                        Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

                        http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

                         

                         

                        "Its not the workbench that makes the model, it is the modeler at the workbench."

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                        echolmberg
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Green Bay, WI USA
                        Posted by echolmberg on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:15 PM

                        Thank you Vance and Doogs!  I especially never knew that Alclad makes a "light sheen" clear coat!!!  There's a model train store on my route home from work that actually carries an impressive line of Alclad products.  Me thinks I'll be stopping in to see if they have that top coat.

                        Thank you for some great tips!

                        Eric

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                        DoogsATX
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                          June 2010
                        • From: Austin, TX
                        Posted by DoogsATX on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 9:25 AM

                        Well, the obvious option is a clear coat. Alclad makes clear coats that they say are specially designed to go over NMF. I've used them with pretty decent success. If you go that way, try "Light Sheen".

                        On the Bench: 1/32 Trumpeter P-47 | 1/32 Hasegawa Bf 109G | 1/144 Eduard MiG-21MF x2

                        On Deck:  1/350 HMS Dreadnought

                        Blog/Completed Builds: doogsmodels.com

                         

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                        VanceCrozier
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                          February 2003
                        • From: Rothesay, NB Canada
                        Posted by VanceCrozier on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:38 AM

                        Would a super-thin overspray of "silver paint of choice" help it out any or would it ruin the NMF effect? (I'm just guessing here as I've never used SNJ...)

                        On the bench: Airfix 1/72 Wildcat; Airfix 1/72 Vampire T11; Airfix 1/72 Fouga Magister

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                        echolmberg
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Green Bay, WI USA
                        Taking the shine off of NMF
                        Posted by echolmberg on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 8:15 AM

                        Hi guys!

                        I'm working on a Tamiya 1/48 P-51D Mustang.  I enjoy working with SnJ metal powders which is how I finished this plane.  However, I think I might have overdone the polishing just a tad and the plane looks like it's polished for the Reno air races.  So is there a way to cut down on the shine to give it a more "used" look?  Several years ago I used the same stuff on a B-36 I worked on.  It was a bad time to decide to experiment but I tried using Testors Dullcote on it and it turned my shiny B-36 into a pretty much GREY B-36  Bang Head  I'd like to try to avoid that!

                        Any suggestions?  HELP!!!!!!

                        Eric

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