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Prep'ing large clear parts with Klear: Dipping vs spraying

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  • Member since
    May 2009
Prep'ing large clear parts with Klear: Dipping vs spraying
Posted by Dr. Coffee on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:44 PM

Hi folks.

The advice 'dip clear parts in Pledge Klear' is virtually all over the place. And at long last, I've obtained some of this Mythical substance, Pledge Klear, from across the border. Precious stuff, in other words.

I'm currently working on a 1/24 car, that has all the compartment windows molded as one large clear part that measures some 2 cm x 6 cm x 8 cm. Now, I can pour half a bottle of Klear in a container and dip the part, but I don't want to risk contaminating all that Klear unless it's absolutely necessary.

Are there any reasons why one can't airbrush the part with Klear instead of dipping it?

Doc

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:20 PM

I don't see any reason why you couldn't airbrush it as long as it is layed down smooth.

I think dipping parts is more for convienanece than anything else.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
  • Member since
    August 2006
  • From: Neenah, WI
Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 3:26 PM

Airbrushing and brushing works but dipping ensures even and full coverage. Dip, blot dry to remove excess from the edges and allow to cure. Repeat the process once more.

Also when you airbrush the insides of a tightly curved canopy, the Future will pool up and run. Airbrushing also can leave the Future with an orange peel appearence.

 

Gerald "Hawkeye" Voigt

http://hawkeyes-squawkbox.com/

 

 

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

  • Member since
    October 2008
  • From: Fullerton, Calif.
Posted by Don Wheeler on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:14 PM

Future goes on very nice with a wide flat sable brush.  Have a look here.

I'd practice on an empty plastic bottle.  One nice thing; it can easily be removed if it doesn't come out right.

Don 

https://sites.google.com/site/donsairbrushtips/home

A collection of airbrush tips and reviews

Also an Amazon E-book and paperback of tips.

  • Member since
    May 2009
Posted by Dr. Coffee on Thursday, June 11, 2009 3:11 AM

Thanks for the tip.

Nice site you referred to, particularly the page about mixing paints. Where I am, botteled water is a big thing. The bottles come with a 'sports drink cap' so that one can sip water without having to remove the caps. The kind of thing that have been used in sport's bottles (particularly cycling) for decades.

Now, these caps come with a plastic seal that must be removed before drinking from the bottle. This seal is essentially a small plastic 'bowl', say, 0.5 ml large. It's a perfect mixing vessel for tiny amounts of paints. And it's both disposable and available in vast supply. Particularly after I asked the kids to give me the seals they otherwise would throw away.

Doc

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