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It's been covered already in this thread, but it can most likely be fixed by spraying more gloss coat. If it doesn't work, oh well, you were going to strip it anyway, so you might as well try this first.

Thought I should post a follow up, either for the sake of anybody reading this with the same problem or for the curiosity of anybody who helped me out here.

So I did what seemed to be the popular opinion - I went out and got some Testors high gloss varnish and some Testors dullcote varnish.
Sprayed on a good coat of the high gloss, and finished off with the dullcote to take the shine out of it.

Well it helped, it wasn't a magic undo button, but it certainly helped.
In addition to the varnish, I also touched up some areas with regular acrylic paint, this is far less than ideal and did destroy some of the detail on the model, especially the little black lines in the creases of the armor.
This also ruined the highlighting on the figure, so now it doesn't have very much highlighting. I tried to put some of that back on, but quickly realized I was making it worse.

But - it all helped and it turned out ok.




One of them was unrecoverable, I may consider stripping it and starting again.
Here's a shot of the other one, it's not the greatest but it's passable.
Thanks everybody very much for all your help - saved a pretty nice model for me

The_Juggler wrote: Well I suppose it was fairly humid out, although I'm afraid the hot dry days are behind us this time of year. I hate to do this inside, sprayed black paint inside and got a fine mist of black all over things.

My solution for the humid/cold days is a big cardboard box in the garage. That gives me enough room to hold models in there if I need to, and certainly to stack a whole squad in there. Never had any spray paint end up anywhere outside the box. Not sure if I would try it inside the house, but so far it has worked great.

RE the issue with the varnish or clear coat when temp is low this will happen its known as blush in spray painting to stop this i use an old oil panel heater or hair dryer hope this will help you mate


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RE the issue with the varnish or clear coat when temp is low this will happen its known as blush in spray painting to stop this i use an old oil panel heater or hair dryer hope this will help you mate


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RE the problem of rescue of remaining figure use simple green all purpose cleaner to strip paint off and do it again i have used this on a few figures and no damage has occurred you may have to use tooth brush to get it back to the grey . As for different types of clear coats i have used gw purity spray but found it to be a little shiny for my liking so then i tried acrylic barniz varnish secado rapido mate ref/ 518 you have to thin it down and it is white to start with but will turn clear upon drying

d-usa wrote:My solution for the humid/cold days is a big cardboard box in the garage.

I did a similar setup in my laundry room, but because it was not well ventilated I got really messed up on paint fumes, had to go outside for a while. And there's really no better place for me to do this other than outside. I knew it wasn't a great idea, but didn't think the fumes would overcome me that quickly.
But I was pretty loopy for about an hour

AndyMcmahon wrote:RE the issue with the varnish or clear coat when temp is low this will happen its known as blush in spray painting to stop this i use an old oil panel heater or hair dryer hope this will help you mate

Yeah, I realize this now. In fact I've applied a varnish to my other models now with no problems, turned out pretty good.

Also, it bears mentioning that when you don't have ideal spray conditions (and even if you do) artists matte varnish is easy to apply with a brush, has much less fumes and is easy to control.

I grew up in Ohio (hellacious winters and HUMID summers) then moved to Orlando Florida (HUMID x2 summers).

Here is the solution for dealing with humidity and sprays, or cold and sprays.

Store all the models indoors along with your spray cans. Get everything ready to prime or varnish inside. Go outside, do your priming/varnishing and immediately bring them back indoors to dry.

I have used this in both of the above mentioned hell holes and have never once had a problem in 7 fully painted armies.