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No gloss from glosscote?

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  • Member since
    January 2007
Posted by the doog on Friday, August 3, 2007 8:10 AM

Always use light coats with any kind of laquer coat--if not, you'll wind up running the risk of "crazing" or "fogging" the paint---bleaching the pigments out of it. It looks like a white or fogy sheen over the model. Gloss needs a few coats to fill in microscopic surface irregularities (which fracture light waves into "dullness") and properly reflect light, ie, to "shine".

You may be thinning it too much?...try a slightly thicker ratio.

Ant
  • Member since
    July 2007
No gloss from glosscote?
Posted by Ant on Monday, July 30, 2007 1:43 AM

im using testors glosscote and i just cant seem to get the gloss to come up? this is my first time using it so can some one tell me what the thinning ratio should be and what pressure's to spary at?

also do i use light coats or med-heavy?

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