varnish fogging

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**shadowseercB**

I airbrushed varnish on my models and a 2 of them came out with a white haze. I stripped them and painted them again and I wanted to know is there a way I can remove the varnish without having to strip them? Like use turpinoid?

**tomcat31**

Try leaving it 24 hours, then applying another coat of varnish. If this doesn't work, localised fogging can be painted over.

**Desubot**

You could get away with air brushing over with a gloss coat and re trying. that's if i think whats happening is whats happening.

**oadie**

No need to strip, in most cases. As mentioned, a layer of gloss will cure all but the most egregious frosting, giving you a fresh surface on which to apply another coat of matte varnish (more carefully, this time

). Pretty much any solvent that can remove a varnish can also remove the underlying paint - much safer to add layers than try to remove them, since you have the option.

**essia**

before you stripe the mini, I had it happen once, if you don't mind a little detail loss, you could try just a quick brush(don't over do it) of solvent, this will melt the frosting a little and clear it up.

**Brother SRM**

This has happened to me a bunch of times. It usually happens from it being too humid, spraying too much matte varnish on the target model, or not shaking up the varnish enough. Whenever this happens, I just spray gloss varnish (Testors being the preferred brand) over the model, which eats away the fog and previous layer of varnish. I then just matte varnish it again. Two layers takes off the sheen and leaves a super protected model. If it fogs again, I'm probably just using a bad can of varnish.

**shadowseercB**

Well I took your guys advice except I used Matte varnish again. It dried and took away the fogging which is exactly what I asked for but now its shiny. Its incredibly shiny like i used gloss (which I did not use) on both of my units. I put on as thin a layer as I possibly could while using a brush this time of my Liquitex Matte Varnish.
I live in cali and the weather is pretty good for painting.

EDIT: it says to stir and I absolutely did that

**oadie**

Different brands of varnish differ in their particular formulations. One brand's matte is another brand's satin is another brand's ultra-flat. Liquitex Matte Varnish is particularly known for being less matte than most other brands - more of a satin, really. If you want a dead flat finish, use a different brand. Personally, I swear by Testors Dullcote (and have had nothing but trouble from Liquitex Matte). Glad the frosting has been taken care of, at least.

**shadowseercB**

I am going to use oil washes then put detail on my models so I'm hoping this will work out fine. I'll make the drive to pick up testors, is there gloss and satin's any good?

**oadie**

I'm quite happy with the finish from Testors Glosscote, although I rarely use it, since acrylic varnishes are cheaper and slightly less bothersome (stink, dry time, etc. is higher with lacquers, like Dullcote). I use Dullcote because I find it leaps and bounds better than than the matte acrylics I've tried - acrylic gloss, however, seems much less finicky (tried several, none were even remotely problematic).

Never used a satin varnish from them, so I can't comment. If I'm bothering to pay for Testors, I want their lacquers (only have acrylic/enamel semi-flats, according to their website).

**shadowseercB**

I just want to add, though I have no major complaints about liquitex matte or gloss...
The other models that I used a Liquitex satin darkened the colors of the other squad making the shadows that I put effort into coloring pointless because its the same color as the base. Either that bottle is part of a bad batch or its terrible.