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                        How much Gloss?

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                        Ant
                        • Member since
                          July 2007
                        How much Gloss?
                        Posted by Ant on Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:00 PM
                        HI to all. i have started to use glosscote for my decaling and im not sure as to just how glossy i should make it? i have been only glossing where the decals go. my problem is that it seems to take a lot of coats to get a real gloss, so do i do it that way or just a coulpe of light coats to seal the flat?
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                        Wulf
                        • Member since
                          February 2006
                        • From: Southeast Louisiana
                        Posted by Wulf on Friday, September 14, 2007 11:49 AM

                        The more gloss, the better. Especially if you are using a acryl clear coat. I have to do several (3-5) layers of it to get a gloss suitable for decals. Hope this helps...

                        Andy

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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Friday, September 14, 2007 9:00 PM

                        All you need is a surface with more gloss than flat to get the decals to not "silver" and that is it.

                         

                        “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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                        cml
                        • Member since
                          March 2007
                        • From: Brisbane, Australia
                        Posted by cml on Monday, September 17, 2007 10:44 PM

                        Hello All,

                        While we're on the subject of gloss coats...

                        I'm using Gunze Sangyo Clear Gloss, how much to i need to thin it before airbrushing?  Is it like a normal gloss of about 60/40 or can it go straight on out of the bottle?

                         

                        thanks

                        Chris

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