"Getting a good gloss black finish." Topic
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| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 13 Feb 2018 3:42 p.m. PST |
I'm looking to get a really good smooth gloss black finish on an alien spaceship and wondered if anyone had any techniques for this? The obvious one seems to just apply a gloss varnish over my usual black acrylic! |
robert piepenbrink  | 14 Feb 2018 4:38 a.m. PST |
Would it be cheating to paint them with a gloss black spray? |
 Dentatus  | 14 Feb 2018 2:00 p.m. PST |
How about an enamel gloss black paint instead of acrylic? |
| Rich Bliss | 14 Feb 2018 3:02 p.m. PST |
Glossieness is a matter of surface roughness. If you are really serious, sand your surface with progressively finer grits of sandpaper, finish with a buffing wheel and then use gloss paints. |
 Legion 4  | 16 Feb 2018 9:09 a.m. PST |
I use gloss black on aircraft canopies etc. … Of course as you posted you could always spray clear gloss on the finished model too. |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 21 Feb 2018 3:17 p.m. PST |
@Rich, that's probably the answer I'm in denial about…. |
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