Gloss & Flat Coats for Decaling

I am another enamel user.  I use Testors glosscoat. If I am clearcoating the whole model (lots of decals) I just use the rattle can. If just a few decal areas I apply it from bottle, either by airbrushing or hand brushing.  I have also used polyurethane varnish, thinned quite a bit.

For the longest time, I used Testors Dullcote in the rattle can. Recently though, I bought a bottle of it and tried airbrushing it, with a little lacquer thinner to cut it. I've found this works much  better and is much more controllable. The lacquer means it dries quickly too.

Thank you, Don and Dirk.  It looks like I'll have to give Testors a try.  

Do both the gloss and dullcote thin well with lacquer thinner?

Have not tried lacquer thinner. I thinned mine with mineral spirits. I think Testors might possibly make two versions of the bottle stuff- one a lacquer and one more like an enamel.

While it's been twenty years since I bought either one, the Testors DullCote and GlossCote that I used were both lacquer products; one whiff with the cap off would confirm that and both were thinned with paint-store lacquer thinner with nary a problem in that respect.  ymmv.

Gary

I just went by what the bottles said. Both the gloss and the flat in the bottles that I bought are labeled "Gloss Lacquer" and "Flat Lacquer". I just assumed lacquer thinner would be the way to go. My .02.

 Chris

Thanks again, Don, Gary, Chris.  I have both lacquer thinner and mineral spirits, so I'll see how they work with both.