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Posted by gobears01 on Saturday, March 5, 2011 12:21 AM

Micro-Mark uses Krylon Crystal Clear acrylic spray as a fixitive for their decal supplies. Works fine, I've used on several rolling stock and aircraft decals I made. Spray lightly, or it would probably stiffen the decal.

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Posted by wjbwjb29 on Friday, January 14, 2011 5:39 PM

FYI I mistaked that stuff for Micro Set once. It has the same bottle and blue lettering. I tryed to use it on brand new Microscale red stripes the were breaking apart after dipping in water and couldnt get it to work. Hobby lobby has the decal bonder that hawkeye refers to which I am going to try on some old Tamiya decals that I have bleaching in the window now.

 

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Posted by Scorpiomikey on Saturday, December 18, 2010 7:41 PM

microscale i can get. ill give it a go thanks guys.

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Posted by Phil_H on Saturday, December 18, 2010 7:17 PM

While it is a specific product, MicroScale's Liquid Decal Film works well.

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Posted by Scorpiomikey on Saturday, December 18, 2010 2:10 PM

cheers hawkeye, is there anything i can use as a substitute? (specific products are a pain to find here)

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Posted by HawkeyeHobbies on Saturday, December 18, 2010 9:01 AM

The bonder they refer to is not to seal the decal to the model but the ink use to print the decal to the paper. If you apply Future you will have zero flexibility which will not let the decal contour to the surface of the model. Bonder acts more like a fixative versus a sealer. It allows the decal to remain pliable and air to pass through the decal material...Future stops that completely.

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Decal Bonding
Posted by Scorpiomikey on Friday, December 17, 2010 8:36 PM

Just got some testors decal paper (clear) for inkjet printers and it refers to testors decal bonder to seal the decal.

Can i use future to seal the decals?

TIA

Mike

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