A-10 LOADER

Got the gloss coat on the wings and the fuselage tonight, hopefully tomorrow or Monday I can start the decals 🤞. Steve

It's all a matter of personal preference and, the way you spray on your finishes. You can gloss, decal, then flat coat. Some guys don't put a lot of flat coat down but, just enough to knock down the sheen so they apply the second gloss after decals to make sure they are sealed. Steve

Nice ! She came out looking really good. Steve

Yeah, no way I'd pay that much. When I heard the rumblings a few years ago that MM was going away I went thru my entire stash, @ 23 kits, and checked all the FS color call outs in the instructions. Then I went thru my paints and whatever color I thought I would need more of I order them by the 6 pack from SprueBros. At my age, 61 and the slow rate that I build at, I should have plenty of paint for the kits that I have and, I already know that I will not build all of them. Steve

What's your idea of a ridiculous price ? Steve

Oh most definitely. Steve

Smart man. Steve

I forgot to add this yesterday as a side note. This is one of two bottles I purchased to use on the prop disks for my AC-J, I figured I'd be doing the same thing for the EP-3. Has anyone else had this issue with the X-22 clear ?? This bottle hasn't even been opened yet. I hope my prop disks on the AC-J don't turn yellow and, needless to say I'll have to find something else to use on the EP-3 disks. Steve

Congrats to you and the Mrs. Dave. Steve

Ok, so the "great clearcoat experiment" is over and, the winner for me is the Alclad gloss and gloss light sheen. Spoons were all sprayed the same way, one light coat followed by a slightly heavier coat using my Paasche VL with a #5 needle except the Tamiya spoon which I sprayed using the rattle cans. Spoon A ( TAMIYA ), the gloss did not affect the MM enamel at all. I waited 24 hours and sprayed the semi-gloss and the second coat attacked only the gray paint ever so slightly, not the white ? It could have been too heavy of a coat or, I should have waited longer for the gloss to dry

Right there with ya bud. Everyone feels the need to re-invent the wheel. Steve

Nice work, good looking model. Steve

Ohhh, nice. They look good. Steve "TOMCATS FOREVER, BABY...!"

No seals on the bottles. The seal is built in to the underside of the lid. Steve

Well if this was my typical low-viz build, I'd be using my standards, Testor's "wet look" clear gloss and Testor's Dullcote for my final coat. I only use Model Master and the Testor's clears, it's what I've grown accustomed to, they work great and, no need to change. I find that when you stray from one complete system, that's when the problems arise, hence my "testing". The problem is the white. If I didn't think the "wet look" gloss would make her look toyish at this scale I'd go with it. Kinda wish Testors would have made a semi-gloss. We'll see which one of the semi-glosses gives me th