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Gloss Coat & Dull Coat - what do you use?

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Gloss Coat & Dull Coat - what do you use?
Posted by BorisBaddenov on Saturday, January 30, 2021 5:38 PM

I need some advice on which Gloss Coat and Dull coat work well with Tamiya and Vallejo acrylic paints.  I will be airbrushing, so if thinning is required please mention that as well.  What do you guys use for Gloss and Dull coat over these paints?

 

Thanks!

Boris

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    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Saturday, January 30, 2021 5:39 PM

I use Alclads over everything.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Saturday, January 30, 2021 7:48 PM

Alclad and sometimes Vallejo

Alclad's Matte is Lacquer

They make an acrylic Aqua Gloss as well as a Lacquer Gloss

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Saturday, January 30, 2021 10:21 PM

Future for gloss, Vallejo matt acrylic varnish for flat.

(Over Tamiya acrylics, which I use almost exclusively. No thinner needed for the Future; the Vallejo thins nicely with Tamiya X-20A.)

Greg

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Posted by Faux fisherman on Sunday, January 31, 2021 6:27 AM

Liquatex acrylic varnish straight from the bottle into the airbrush.

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    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Sunday, January 31, 2021 8:41 AM

I have used Testors lacqeur Glosscoat and Dullcoat for about four decades now.  They are still my gotos.  I find I can use them over both enamels and acrylics.  They dry fast, and decals go down very nicely on Glosscoat.

I have also used Polyurethane, but it has a long dry time.  The only use I have for it is that they have a clear satin. A satin/semi-matt is the one thing lacking in Testors clearcoats.

 

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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    May 2013
  • From: Indiana, USA
Posted by Greg on Sunday, January 31, 2021 8:51 AM

Bish

I use Alclads over everything.

 

So do I.

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