Airbrushing Model Master/Testors Glosscote lacquer

For awhile Testors was offering rattlecans of both enamel and lacquer gloss overcoats.  The enamel variety did take a long time to dry.  Recent cans seem to be the old lacquer and dry quite quickly.

You know, Don, I rattle-canned a coat of glosscoat on my BF-109 WIP, and it turned out pretty good. I was happy with it, except it seemed to take a long time to dry. I usually use Future for my clearcoats, but of course you can't if you're going to be doing an acrylic wash and scrubbing that off with windex. Maybe the longer dry time for the rattle can is the tradeoff for the better durability over Future.

I generally go for heavier coats, but that is because I usually am going for a heavier gloss.  I have used thinner coats when I wanted a semi-gloss or eggshell.  It seems to work well either way.  I have even brushed (manual) on a thin coat to create the eggshell look in a small area.  My bottle is pretty old too, since I usually use the rattle can.