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                        Newbie Booboo, need help

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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Newbie Booboo, need help
                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 6, 2006 5:49 PM

                        Hi all,

                        I've handpainted my engine blocks flat black enamel.

                        I wanted to highlight grooves in engine blocks with an acrylic wash.

                        When I went to remove excess acrylic wash with Qtip and ammonia nothing came off.

                        I think I need a Future coat between enamel and acrylic.

                        True??

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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Monday, March 6, 2006 6:37 PM
                        Yes!

                        “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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                        PZL P.62
                        • Member since
                          December 2005
                        Posted by PZL P.62 on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 10:24 PM

                        Did you use acrylic model paint or artists acrylic for your wash? Anyway, try scrubbing off the excess wash with a pencil eraser.

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                        waikong
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: NYC, USA
                        Posted by waikong on Thursday, March 9, 2006 11:49 AM
                        The problem is the initial flat coat. A wash over flat coat is very difficult to get off since what makes the paint flat also give a lot of small pits for the wash to settle in. A gloss coat, whether paint or future has a very smooth surface, so its much easier to remove excess wash.

                        My website: http://waihobbies.wkhc.net

                         

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