wisco8 Posted April 10, 2014 Author Posted April 10, 2014 Why don't you want to use Future? I use that over decals and then any lacquer can be applied over it. Did this on an ALA Kart kit years ago. The Future and all clear lacquer were airbrushed. The model looks great in spite of the decal/ CC disaster. I did not know you could spray lacquer over future. That is great news. Is there a process to it? or just wait till the future dries and apply lacquer over it?
Mike Kucaba Posted April 10, 2014 Posted April 10, 2014 All my experience with future has been to thin it with denatured alcohol and airbrush it. I think that a few days drying time would be prudent. The clear I sprayed over it was ppg clear and that was airbrushed. BTW that blue looked flat. What Testors was it? Acrylic or enamel?
wisco8 Posted April 10, 2014 Author Posted April 10, 2014 All my experience with future has been to thin it with denatured alcohol and airbrush it. I think that a few days drying time would be prudent. The clear I sprayed over it was ppg clear and that was airbrushed. BTW that blue looked flat. What Testors was it? Acrylic or enamel? Hi Mike, thank you for the help. I used Testors Model Master enamel cobalt blue, it does dry flat.
wisco8 Posted April 14, 2014 Author Posted April 14, 2014 Restored to a very nice high gloss finish. Thanks to SCOTT'S MODEL WORKSHOP saved the day for providing excellent decals for this car. I also found out that by using a larger nozzle when airbrushing future you get more of a consistant spray and avoid the orange peel effect altogether. I used a badger 200 airbrush set up with a medium nozzel and adjusted the needle to a fine mist using future floor shine straight out of the bottle, nothing added. With my copressor set at 15-20 lbs psi. After I got the car covered I then sprayed heavier coats on top to really gloss it out. I then added windex and went back to the fine mist setting and made the future wet only a few light mist coats was all it took.
jbwelda Posted April 15, 2014 Posted April 15, 2014 so basically you laid on a few coats of future, not really caring if it orange peeled a bit, then flowed it all out by using windex over it and letting it settle? did you use straight windex or mix with future? im curious because I want to try some future in my airbrush. thanks for the tip on the, well, tip...stands to reason you want to flood it on a bit and also future is thicker than typical paint. the body is looking great and those decals are really super! jb
wisco8 Posted April 15, 2014 Author Posted April 15, 2014 so basically you laid on a few coats of future, not really caring if it orange peeled a bit, then flowed it all out by using windex over it and letting it settle? did you use straight windex or mix with future? im curious because I want to try some future in my airbrush. thanks for the tip on the, well, tip...stands to reason you want to flood it on a bit and also future is thicker than typical paint. the body is looking great and those decals are really super! jb Hi J.B., I just mist coated the windex over the future in a few light passes, just to get a wet look. I did not add any windex to the future. I just added the future to my color cup then sprayed a few light mist coats so the intial applications would have something to bite to, then sprayed heavier coats, then finished up with a few light passes of windex. The real secret to getting a nice gloss finish is to use a larger nozzle when spraying the future. A smaller nozzle will only produce a pebble like finish.
wisco8 Posted April 16, 2014 Author Posted April 16, 2014 (edited) Oh yeah! Thank you Bradley, Ive been waiting for this finish for almost 8 years!! Praise God!! by "larger nozzle", what would you recommend? jb Hi William, I used the Badger 200 with the medium nozzle head and needle marked IL. I was using the Iwata SBS side feed with a 0.35 head and it just didnt atomize correctly for the spray I wanted produce, Im sure any medium head and needle combo will work. The secret is to spray a few light mist coats first then follow up with heavier coats, when your finished load up the airbrush with windex and spray as you did at first with a few light mists to really gloss it out, only a few though, too much will ruin it. Edited April 16, 2014 by wisco8
wisco8 Posted April 16, 2014 Author Posted April 16, 2014 Last thing to do is to add the glass. I just dipped all the glass in future and waiting for it to dry. Here are a few more pics before its finished.
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