As I progress my skills and tools into my new hobby of model building I came up to what seems to me a pretty important part of modeling. Clear Coat! I am nearing completion of my Trumpeter Queen Elizabeth 1943 and I didnt use primer or anyting. While waiting on a couple of paints to finish her up I decided to work a little on my next project, the Tamiya KGV in 1/350 scale.
This time I started a little different. I sanded down everything that needed sanded on the hull, and drilled out all of the portholes. I bought some Tamiya spray primer and am going to primer the hull before painting in hopes of a better end result in the look and lay of the paint. I will actually be priming every part before building and painting this kit.
While on the subject of prepaint and assembly, I started thinking to myself about adding a clear coat once the model is done to give it a good finish. I have in my tamiya paint arsenal their xf-86 flat clear. But it is in a regular paint bottle and I feel like brush painting on a clear coat will end in a result that I dont want, which would be uneven and having the possibility of brush strokes visible, and cloudiness.
I feel a spray can of clear would be much easier to get a even coat of clear on it and achieve the look I am after.
So what spray on clear coats work best over acrylic paint? And what methods have you found work best?