Gloss coat for decals

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This stuff SSG?

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No, that’s floor CLEANER. You don’t want to use the cleaner. You’ll want the polish aka gloss.

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I’m probably going to get ran out of the chat with pitchforks and torches, but I went to hobby lobby and got a gloss and flat clear spray paint style cans that are opposite of my weathering items. Most of my weathering items I think are acrylic so my clears of enamels I know it’s kind of cheating but it works for me.

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Nope. Ain’t gonna happen
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What Wade said.

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When we take a Shine to our models …

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So much here…You do not need a hi gloss surface to decal. a semi gloss will work. Now as to what’s next, there are many paths. Robin suggests working in a wet paint environment. I am sure he has his technique down pat and I have done that before but it gives me anxiety, sort of like which wire on the bomb do I cut?
The floor polish is forgiving and levels very well, that is the property Robin is counting on.
If airbrush less (darn it) get a 1/2 inch, high quality flat brush for acrylic paint. Use the floor polish and brush it thinly on your kit. cover panel to panel so no paint line will be seen in the middle of a surface. Me, I let dry over night. Decal as you normally would using micro sol/set as needed. Do not touch the decal if it crinkles. I will magically heal itself as it dries. the next day spray a matt/flat clear from a rattle can and all should be good. Some swear by Teaters dullcoat.

If you are using gloss clear on a car, paint on your gloss color coat, wet sand with a very fine sand paper. Spray a gloss clear coat. Decal the car, after drying spray a second gloss coat.
When dry, lightly wet sand the car and decals. Don’t sand through the gloss coat, you are just smoothing the surface. Spray a second gloss coat. If the finish looks good and you don’t see where the edge of the decal is, you are good. if not repeat the wet sand and gloss coat one more time. I would be using about a 2000 grit paper.

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Its probably just me,but I find that the Hobby Lobby rattlecan clears spray kind of heavy,couldnt get good control on them.

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I use Tamiya gloss clear of future.

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I checked today $4.90 something on base.

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