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Step by Step Procedures for Using Metalizer Finishes

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    November 2005
Step by Step Procedures for Using Metalizer Finishes
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:56 AM
Just about to try my first attempt at using buffing and non-buffing MM metalizers. How do you thin the stuff? (What ratio?) How long does it normally take to dry? Airbrush it over a unfinished or primed surface? Use of MM's metalizer sealer. Appreciate your comments and many thanks....Ivan
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    March 2003
  • From: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Posted by maddafinga on Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:34 AM
If it's the Model Master stuff, you shouldn't really need to thin it. Just spray it on in light coats. You can seal it with their sealer, but I usually use Future instead. They're laquer based and dry to the touch really quickly. I'd let them sit overnight anythough, just for good measure.
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    August 2004
  • From: Kennesaw, GA
Posted by jdavidb on Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:04 PM
You can airbrush them on over everything... bare plastic, acrylic, enamel.

The buffing metalizers rub off too easy, but you can use the Testors clear lacquers (in the jars, not spray cans) instead of Metalizer Sealer. I don't like the sealer.

The best I've seen from these paints is to use non-buffing metalizers with no sealer or anything over it. The non-buffing ones don't have that rub-off problem.
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    December 2002
  • From: NYC, USA
Posted by waikong on Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:03 PM
buffing needs the sealers, but unforutnately also dulls the shine. No thinnign needed
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  • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
Posted by Tankmaster7 on Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:08 PM
How do you buff them? and ivanho, mebbe it's just on my comp, but you'r font is huge...
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