So I am in final stages of what was turning out to be one of my best models to date. The Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire. I primed w/ air brushed (ab) acrylic primer then ab painted with Tamiya XF. Fine all good. My best paint job ever. Then I ab’d AK glossy acrylic varnish. All still good. I applied decal and they were nealy perfect, crisp colors, no visible staining from the microsol. At each stage I waited a min 24 hours, after painting I actually let it cure for a week or more. Today I decided to try for 1st time AK intermediate gauzy agent to coat before weathering. I had read on forums it was great to ab right out of bottle. It went on great but I noticed the first coat suddenly slightly showed the microsol trails and faded the decals. I waited a few hours and sprayed 2nd coat. Each time I followed advice and did light passes, never had pooling, was at around 17 psi with a .5 nozzle. Now that second coat is dry to touch and the microsol stains are very apparent, the decals look like crap. I have never had a great model go so wrong at almost the very end. I don’t know what went wrong or what to do other than just weather it and spray it with matte and call it done. Should I try a different gloss acrylic varnish over it or is it never going to look right? I do not want to try any removal of the gauzy agent as it will destroy the decals and paint I am sure.
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Worst case, Tamiya USA will probably have the decals available if you have to remove the paint.
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