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is that the same as rubbing alcohol ? isopropyl ? or is denatured alcohol special stuff ?

It IS dried :? I have some windshield washer fluid that says protects to minus 20 degrees, it says de icer on it, anything in that washer fluid that could harm anything ? the ingredients are, water, & methyl alchohol. OR would windex be better ? how long does a soak in this stuff take usually ? ...

my apollo LEM adaptor section interior was hand brushed with model master acrylic yellow zinc chromate and it has streaks and uneven areas. I primed it with tamiya fine white primer but it looks terrible and i want to remove that acrylic paint and spray it with something else. trying to hand brush s...

there are clear areas in the walls and the soffit on top looks like you can add a ring of lights down through them if you make small holes.

I bought some LED lights that come 50 to a string & are battery powered. got them in clear but they have colored ones also. saved a lot after christmas sale. the lights that the guys sell aftermarket are very nice & are made custom for the models, however, i understand where you are at becau...

The yellowing info was from fine scale modelers book i picked up. I am glad i saw that before i had that done to my white CM. Tamiya gloss white over the tamiya white primer, then some brushed on clear or future on top of the decal and i think it will be solved.

I have a bottle of clear and also a bottle of future. i thought about brushing a small area and then when dry brushing on a protective coat over the decals. i think that would leave a shiney spot on the flat finished surface. so i bought a can of tamiya gloss white and i will put on 2 coats of that ...

I have an apollo command module that is primed with tamiya fine white primer, I need to add 2 decals and i might want to gloss coat the entire thing. I have testors high gloss clear coat ENAMEL in the rattle can. My understanding is that spraying a gloss coat on top of white will cause the white to ...

thanks Mike, for the paint chart link.

maybe interntl orange.

i returned it for a refund

The shop should have had it with the airbrush paints and not mixed with the regular enamel brush paints. the bottle says nothing about it being transparent.

:) :)I am trying to find the right colors to make the orange color shown in the picture of the command module top where the parachutes are stored. i have tried yello with orange, red with you name it. i just cannot find the right color combination, anyone that can help me find the right colors to mi...

I dont own an airbrush sadly, but this stuff just ran and puddled in corners. they need to say this on the bottle. i am going to try for a refund.

well that explains that. This paint was with the regular enamel paints and it says nothing on the bottle about being an airbrush paint, it just says enamel paint OR is that what the word Anthricite means ?

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It has a black cap and says enamel

I bought some model master Anthricite metallic gray enamel in the bottle. What is wrong with this paint ? it is very watery & runs off both primed & unprimed white surfaces. It looks almost like it is see thru and no matter how much you try to brush on, it just wont cover the white. Is this ...

I have an apollo command module that i want to leave flat white. I used tamiya fine white primer on it & it looks great. What will spraying a flat white testors enamel on top of that look like ? will there be any difference & is there ANY benifit of spraying it with flat white enamel or will...

They could be just surface bubbles that happen when you lift something out of a liquid, their may be some tiny air bubbles on the surface of the liquid and it attracts to your piece like a magnet. shine a light on the surface of the liquid and look sideways along the top of it & see if there are...

maybe you can poke them with the tip of a needle. How many bubbles ? Is it a few or a cluster ?

Are you tilting the windows so that the future wicks off to 1 corner & then touching it to a piece of tissue paper to absorb the drip ? maybe a very slow dip & then an even slower retrieval.

Thanks. I have plenty of metallic silver so i don't need any more of something that looks close to that. the way testors packages the cans, someone is going to be disappointed when they see the color of the paint is nowhere close to what they show on the caps.

i haven't seen the chrome silver in the bottles. i take it that it looks no different than their silver spray paints then ?

I've tried every "chrome" paint that comes in a retail spray can (from discount stores and auto parts shops), both silver and gold, and every one has always just looked like regular silver or gold paint, despite the shiny, mirrored cap they come topped with. The best effect I've ever seen...

Testors Chrome spray paint has a new look to its can. The 1 can has a black top with a bright chrome circle sticker on the top that indicates color However, the other can that has a gray/silver cap that looks nothing like the chrome silver circle on the other can & both cans have the exact same ...

thanks guys great advice.

Will dullcote harm future ? I have never used future to protect a decal & have never tried spraying dullcote over it. I wonder if a clear gloss enamel out of the bottle would be better.

I was thinking of brushing a couple of light coats of future over the small decal sheet and waiting a couple of days to let it dry. will that make them stiff ? The command modules are normally bright mirror silver however, the early ones were white as were the skylab & apollo soyuz command modul...