make flat paint from gloss?

It's been along time, but I believe it is talc powder.

You really can't find that color in flat somewhere?

No, just being cheap and lazy. I tried painting some small squares of different glossy colors and lightly sanding them. The appearance becomes somewhat flat, certainly no longer gloss.

Why not buy a can of Testors Dullcote or any of the other flat overcoats and spray over it when you are done with the kit?  It would probably work better and provide a nice uniform effect.

Ditto!

You're probably adding decals so a gloss paint is a good thing to start with since you save the step of putting a gloss coat over the flat paint to eliminate silvering. Hitting the final decalled model with Dullcote or other flat finish (NOT Tamiya's #%$#%) will blend everything together.

RotorRob60 wrote:

Is it possible to mix gloss enamel paint with something to make it a flat enamel?

There are various forms of microsilica that can be used to do this. Cab-o-sil is one brand I recall. Don't know where you would find it in small quantities, but it's probably available. (40 pound bags, I believe.)

Be aware that this is respirable silica, and therefore dangerous.

Mixing a dry flatting agent into your paint will also change the pigment load, and may affect performance of the binder. It will also reduce the viscosity.

As other have suggested, a coat of clear flat is more efficient, and probably more economical.

I'll try the Dullcote, thanks.

yea.........that Red Green sign off............I miss that show.......

Talcum powder does indeed work.  We used to use that a lot before  flat model paints became available.  I even remember using it in dope with flying models.  None of us had airbrushes back then, so I don't know if it would work in airbrushes.

 

Another decades old thread revived.....