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Hello and thanks to those who have answered this post. Could one spray something like krylon from Walmart as a dull coat or should I go with testors clear coat? Not trying to save money or be cheap, just a bit of a drive to the nearest hobby shop like michaels or hobby lobby. Thanks in advance for the advice y’all.

Hello again all, My son and I have completed his SBD Dauntless and I slid the decals over the model. It has been sitting for 24 hours already and I was wondering if I’d be able to clear over them or have a messed that up by doing that? If I spray a testors enamel dull coat on it, will it make the decals fold up? Should I use a water based, acrylic based or enamel based clear coat to seal in the decals? The model was sprayed with testors spray paint, the top of it was given a water based citadel blue wash and the decals were set normally (nothing was added to ensure the decals set o

Thank you all for the input. I went ahead and did the blue wash and it came out ok. Way better than I thought. Was scared for a minute after all my sons hard work. Didn’t want to ruin it. I would upload photos of it however my iPhone does not allow for such small format photos. I’ll take pictures of the finished product after it’s all done and reformat the photos to a smaller size. Again thank you all for this help. Y’all have been great.

Thank you for the reply. I have yet to put decals on to be honest but I have glued the prop and the top glass and there are little people in there. Nothing to where I couldn’t put some silly putty and masking tape over but I was just curious if putting a wash would give it that blue tinge. I’m not looking to make sure only panel lines get washed. I was wanting to give a tinge of blue to a gray surface. I’m just want to make sure that if I do that, it won’t look awful after application. Please advise. Thank y’all

To all who may be able to help, Hello all. I am fairly new to aircraft modeling but have done scale auto for quite some time. My 7 year old wanted to do a model of an SBD Dauntless and we bought all the paints and primers. Well, once I sprayed the “dark gray” on the top side, it looked way too light. Him (my 7 yr old) being a military aircraft enthusiast goes “it looks kinda like a Japanese zero”. I can’t say he’s off by much, so my thoughts were to apply a blue wash to one: bring out the panel lines and two: to make give the gray a little bit more of a blue tinge. I used testors d