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  • Member since
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  • From: Vancouver, the "wet coast"
Dot filter question
Posted by castelnuovo on Sunday, October 9, 2011 4:59 PM

Can I use the dot filter metod using acrilic paints on a surface painted with acrilic paint? I am building Tamiya's Krupp Protze and it is all painted in German Gray and it looks too monochromatic, kind boring. I am trying to avoid buying oil paints...financial stuff...

Thanks...

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Sunday, October 9, 2011 5:04 PM

I think you could,but the surface would need an enamel sealer,because you cant use acrylic thinner or alcohol on the acrylic surface,it would damage it.

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  • From: Piscataway, NJ!
Posted by wing_nut on Sunday, October 9, 2011 5:55 PM

I would err on the side of...

 

 

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If the thinner gets under it, it will start to peel it off.  And the acrylics will dry way too fast to get the effect that a dot filter is supposed to achieve.  I am not saying it is impossible... because I am sure someone out there has made it work... but I think you will be better off with oils or enamels for the dots over the acrylic base.

Marc  

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    April 2004
  • From: Georgia
Posted by Screaminhelo on Friday, October 14, 2011 2:30 AM

If you have a paint mule, try it on that first.  I have an old B-26 that I really screwed up that is now used for painting experiments.  I have learned a lot and avoided many disasters by trying ideas on that one first.

 

Mac

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