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I've used nail polish on several cars. I like it. It's inexpensive with some nice colors and Rimmell clear nail polish is my favorite gloss clear of all the paints I've tried. I use lacquer thinner with nail polish. I really like Mr Color because it's a fairly mild thinner and will allow you to shoot your final coats pretty wet without crazing or lifting. I wouldn't mix any other paints with it other than the same brand. I don't know that it wouldn't work but you may just end up with a congealed mess. You can usually find a white, black or primary color within a brand to mix if you need to. And pick up a couple bottles of the color you plan on using, sometimes it takes several coats to build up the color.
Tony
I have seen some beautiful car models done with nail polish. It is a glossy lacquer, so it is compatible with other lacquers and materials used with lacquers, not with acrylics or enamels.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
It works fine. Thin it and clean up with lacquer thinner. The one time I tried it the polish was rather thick (Revlon) and required significant thinning.
No, I would not recommend that!
Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...
dmcox1 Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has ever tried using fingernail polish as a paint?
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has ever tried using fingernail polish as a paint?
Yes. (Wasn't that easy?)
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I've got an unusual model that I'm having difficulty finding the proper color for. Somebody suggested I try fingernail polish, and I did find a color that was very close to what I need. (It is called Spanish Moss - a kind of light, gray-green)
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has ever tried using fingernail polish as a paint? Do you know if it can be mixed with other paints? (I still need to lighten the color a bit to make it match the real thing. The subject is a motorcycle, and instead of paint, the color is applied by decals or is molded in color, so no bottles of touch-up paint are available. [View:http://www.motorcycle.com/classifieds/honda/2000-honda-gl1500-se-MC1218200EBE3.html#:600:0]
Thanks for any ideas or advice,
Dave
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