Question

Hello all, I'm new here and new to modeling, but I love it and you guys make incredible looking models. Anyway I bought a cheap can of Duplicolor Clear top coat from walmart but I didnt realize it was an acrylic lacquer (what it says on the back anyway). I read somewhere you shouldnt put lacquer over acrulics, but I also thought i read in your faq that Tamiya is a synthetic lacquer. I used the tamiya spray paint, but can i spray the clear coat over it without ruining it? Thanks in advance.

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loLz.. same here..

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Your best bet would be to mist on about 5-6 *light* coats first before spraying on anything heavy. The idea of the mist is to make it light enough so that the solvent dries before it has much time to dissolve any paint lying underneath. Several mist coats would ensure a sufficient "barrier" so that succeeding wet coats would only come in contact with said barrier, not the actual paint itself. For the mist coats, I'd spray from 8-10 inches waiting 10-15 minutes between coats, and for the wet coats I'd spray from 6-8 inches and waiting 15 minutes between coats.

I will warn you now however that Duplicolor paints are *very* prone to orange peel so be ready to polish it out.

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Here is a logical solution, find a piece of scrap somewhere, even if it is the sprue the model parts came on, start by spraying some of the Tamiya lacquer on the sprue, when that is completely dry, spray some of the clear coat over it, if they react when they are sprayed on the scrap, don't use it on the model itself......
I don't think you will have a problem though.
Ray:)

Thank you everyone, I will try it after class :)

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