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Offline Hammers

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Dull coating with white glue
« on: March 26, 2012, 05:23:29 AM »
I recently read something about this, it was mentioned in passing in a hobby magazine. Has anyone tried this and would like to expand...?

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Re: Dull coating with white glue
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2012, 07:49:10 AM »
In the past I did brush dilute PVA over decals to matt them down and that worked alright (in the old days before I varnished everything!) but I'd be reluctant to use it on an entire model, especially when varnish does the job more effectively.

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Re: Dull coating with white glue
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2012, 11:40:10 AM »
i miagine eventually one day over a surface of a whole model pva would start to peel, it think varnish would be the way to go on a mini.

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Re: Dull coating with white glue
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2012, 12:07:34 PM »
I think it would depend on which PVA as a lot of them have different formulas.

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Re: Dull coating with white glue
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2012, 01:02:54 PM »
I've used to use it after stripping out asbestos but not on a model, it dries shiny on a boiler house.  :D
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Re: Dull coating with white glue
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2012, 08:36:48 PM »
apparently PVA glue is especially a good way to primer plastic toys/1/72 soft plastic figures. I didn't know it could be used as a varnish.

Personaly, I varnish my "masterpieces" with liquid arts acrylic medium (dull or gloss, depanding my needs). For the other ones > Pebéo Arts acrylic picture varnish spray can.

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Re: Dull coating with white glue
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2012, 08:47:12 PM »
I am no expert but have a mate who is and he always bleats on about how the finish achieved by a varnish is more about how it reflects/refracts the surrounding light in much the same way we see colour.  As a glue is designed solely to stick things I think this is therefore just tosh ;D

My guess is some may dry pretty flat but most I have seen dry shiny and I would not touch the idea with your pole let alone my own.
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Offline warrenpeace

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Re: Dull coating with white glue
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2012, 12:08:15 AM »
As sundayhero says, PVA gets used as an outer coat for soft 1/72 scale plastics. The reason for this is flexibility. It also gets used as an undercoat in lieu of primer, for the same reason. I've seen painters describe using these techniques on the yahoo group DBLCHM, which is dedicated to 1/72 scale plastic. Nowdays there is Rustoleum plastic primer, and many of the 1/72 scale plastic painters seem to be using some kind of floor wax as an outer coat. But PVA is a viable option.

No need to use PVA (or floor wax) on a metal or hard rigid plastic figure. Varnish is fine for them.
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Re: Dull coating with white glue
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2012, 01:33:21 AM »
I have actually done this! But it was for a very specific reason: I added a very thin watered-down coat of PVA over a very glossy wash to try and give some hair a real "hair" semi-gloss texture. It sort-of worked.


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