Weathering Made Easy.........And Quick Too
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Weathering Made Easy.........And Quick Too
outside of my aviation career I'm also a cabinet contractor and glazing cabinets has always been a very time consuming job as is weathering a plane. about two years ago i picked up a then new product that cut the time on a set of cabinets down from 3-4 days to 1/2 a day. i used it on several projects and in all honesty i wouldn't use any other form of distressing/glazing anymore.
i decided to give it a go on an old composite wing i had laying in my garage. normally you spray the glaze on cabinets, it hazes over about as quick as you spray it to keep it from burning into the finish to deeply and then you use a Scotch Brite to buff it off leaving all details behind. i wiped the wing down good with alcohol to clean it, used a stain rag to rub the glazing on and then after about 5 min of elbow grease with the Scotch Brite it looked pretty darn good.
it's designed to burn into the under lying finish to an extent but the more you rub the more you can take back off, when you get to your desired look you blow it off with an air hose and clear coat it. it's called [link=http://www.mlcampbell.com/pages/starpage.asp?star=AMG]Amazing Glaze[/link] and it's pretty amazing to work with.
if you spray it on, rather then using a wipe rag, it'll turn out more even without streaks, i really didn't want to clean the gun just for a test run
i decided to give it a go on an old composite wing i had laying in my garage. normally you spray the glaze on cabinets, it hazes over about as quick as you spray it to keep it from burning into the finish to deeply and then you use a Scotch Brite to buff it off leaving all details behind. i wiped the wing down good with alcohol to clean it, used a stain rag to rub the glazing on and then after about 5 min of elbow grease with the Scotch Brite it looked pretty darn good.
it's designed to burn into the under lying finish to an extent but the more you rub the more you can take back off, when you get to your desired look you blow it off with an air hose and clear coat it. it's called [link=http://www.mlcampbell.com/pages/starpage.asp?star=AMG]Amazing Glaze[/link] and it's pretty amazing to work with.
if you spray it on, rather then using a wipe rag, it'll turn out more even without streaks, i really didn't want to clean the gun just for a test run
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RE: Weathering Made Easy.........And Quick Too
it comes in allot of colors and they will even custom blend your color if needed. I'll dig out the paperwork our rep gave me on the stock colors, the above is 'Lamp Black'
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RE: Weathering Made Easy.........And Quick Too
I don't have a scanner handy so i had to use the cam but here are the stock colors:
I've got a rattle can of the Van Dyke Brown that they gave me but i can't find it to do a comparison
I've got a rattle can of the Van Dyke Brown that they gave me but i can't find it to do a comparison
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RE: Weathering Made Easy.........And Quick Too
ORIGINAL: KC36330
i decided to give it a go on an old composite wing i had laying in my garage. normally you spray the glaze on cabinets, it hazes over about as quick as you spray it to keep it from burning into the finish to deeply and then you use a Scotch Brite to buff it off leaving all details behind. i wiped the wing down good with alcohol to clean it, used a stain rag to rub the glazing on and then after about 5 min of elbow grease with the Scotch Brite it looked pretty darn good.
i decided to give it a go on an old composite wing i had laying in my garage. normally you spray the glaze on cabinets, it hazes over about as quick as you spray it to keep it from burning into the finish to deeply and then you use a Scotch Brite to buff it off leaving all details behind. i wiped the wing down good with alcohol to clean it, used a stain rag to rub the glazing on and then after about 5 min of elbow grease with the Scotch Brite it looked pretty darn good.
Old composite wing????? That looks like a spanking new Tam A-4 wing!!!
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RE: Weathering Made Easy.........And Quick Too
it's lacquer based and will hold up somewhat, but it's designed to 'rub off' and without the clear coat to seal it it will continue to be rubbed off when anything is rubbed over it aggressively.
Ian, that's the compliment wing to the one that buckled in flight so it's not hardly a new one
Ian, that's the compliment wing to the one that buckled in flight so it's not hardly a new one
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RE: Weathering Made Easy.........And Quick Too
ORIGINAL: extra 300
Any address for the product
Any address for the product
find your local distributor.
.............as well as scotch brite grade