This is true!pzl66 wrote:Nothing wrong with having more Schmitts!
I'm pretty much there now, I've just a couple of small bits to fix up and some clear coating & weathering to do.
I had a bit of a breakthrough with this one. I managed to get the paint done with pretty much no brush marks, and then had a terrible time with the pre-decal gloss coats on the wings. I hate clear coats – I’ve tried about 8 different ones – and try as I might I just can’t get a brush mark free coat, and this one was terrible.
It really annoys me, because this has happened to me time and again. What’s the point of working on a good mark free paint finish if it gets ruined by clears?
Anyway, I sat back and thought about it for a good few hours. I hadn’t gloss coated the fuselage yet and I wondered about just putting the decals on over the paint. The trouble is, I know that these old Matchbox decals can get a bit messy and I knew it would damage the paint.
And then it hit me. I’ve found through a lot of testing that the best way to get a mark free finish with paint is to avoid Gloss and Satin – which is why I don’t paint with either. So why the hell should clears be any different? So I matt coated the fuselage and nacelles with Vallejo matt (with has a nice slight sheen to it), and then put the decals over that. Okay there is a bit of silvering, which is probably down to the poor decals – but more importantly there are hardly any brush marks. This is something I’m going to be working on over the next few builds as bloody clear coats are the bane of my life.