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Old 01-14-2016 | 09:55 PM
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One more very important tip.

Whenever you do shading like I did on the fuselage, wings and stabs which went from white to yellow to orange, we always want to shoot intercoat clear over them. Intercoat clear is just carrier without pigment. What it does is protect the shaded areas. Even with the best masking jobs, you will get some overspay leaking under the tape and of course always landing on the worse spots to fix. The bottom line is if you don't use intercoat clear to protect these areas, you can't sand off the overspay or use any type of cleaner or it will cut through and you will have a mess on your hands.

With intercoat clear I just use the same cleaner/ grease remover I use to clean the edge of the masking tape to wipe off the overspray.

HOK Intercoat clear that I use is: SG100

Last edited by Portlandflyer; 01-15-2016 at 08:52 AM.