Sealing Oils Weathering?

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DeltaVee
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Sealing Oils Weathering?

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If your paint with acrylics and weather with oils, what kind of clear coat can you seal it all with?
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I would say that once you given the oils P L E N T Y of time to dry (to me, like a week) I would just lightly spray them to seal them and you should be fine. That is how I had done it.
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Post by eeun »

I've used Testor's Dullcoat for years over oil/acrylic combinations.
Some are 20+ years old, still holding up fine.

For nearly as long my process has been:

Acrylics -> Future Floor Acrylic -> Oils and other weathering -> Dullcoat
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I have used Testor's acrylic flat coat, JW & Etc's matte varnish, and (my favorite) Alclad II's Klear Kote Flat.

I usually put dabs of the oils onto cardboard to help wick away some of the oil to help them cure faster.
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Post by nkuzmik »

eeun wrote:I've used Testor's Dullcoat for years over oil/acrylic combinations.
Some are 20+ years old, still holding up fine.

For nearly as long my process has been:

Acrylics -> Future Floor Acrylic -> Oils and other weathering -> Dullcoat
And the Future will hold up to the q-tip+thinner to clean off extra dabs of oil from the wash coat? Not doubting, just making sure I understand the order of operations.
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Post by Rogue Leader »

I airbrush Tamiya's XF-86 flat clear acrylic over oil washes without any troubles. I give the wash at least 3 days to dry before clear coating. Hopefully my latest build video gives you an idea of the "flatness" of the finish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-dK3rc1Izk
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Post by Lt. Z0mBe »

nkuzmik wrote:
eeun wrote:I've used Testor's Dullcoat for years over oil/acrylic combinations.
Some are 20+ years old, still holding up fine.

For nearly as long my process has been:

Acrylics -> Future Floor Acrylic -> Oils and other weathering -> Dullcoat
And the Future will hold up to the q-tip+thinner to clean off extra dabs of oil from the wash coat? Not doubting, just making sure I understand the order of operations.
If by "thinner" you mean turpentine for oil paints or mineral spirits for oils and enamels, then yes you are fine. However if you mean lacquer thinner, then that's a big "NO!" ;)

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