Tag: clear coatings

• Aichi Seiran – Part Three – The Dance Of the Spray Booth

  

  I have numbered the photos today for the new members of the club who wonder how to spray paint things without injury. It is not possible – expect to lose a lung at some stage of the game. In the meantime, No.1 is the Seiran in grey undercoat – in this case Mr. Surfacer 1200.…

  Dick Stein

  May 29, 2023

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Colour Schemes, Japanese aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting

  clear coatings, Painting, sequences

• Science To The Rescue – Part Two

  

  How many ships have foundered in the Succitan Sea? There is no better way to find out if an old bomb is a dud than hitting the fuse with a hammer. Or, in the case of home-made decals, soaking them and trying them out. The 7 candidates were soaked, applied over Mr. Mark Setter, and…

  Dick Stein

  April 10, 2023

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Decals, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, research, Uncategorized

  clear coatings, experiment, Science

• Science To The Rescue – Part One

  

  Having recently made a batch of bad decals, I determined to investigate the problem before printing the next sheet. The surface of the previous ones was cracked and broken – and I reasoned that it was the brittle nature of the Tamiya Gloss Lacquer spray that did it. I looked out all the bottles of…

  Dick Stein

  April 10, 2023

  1:72 scale, Decals, design, frugality, research

  clear coatings, Decals, experiments