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PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:47 am 
Elven Elder
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I don't know why, but i noticed on my two last figures that my varnish leaves white spots on them (Probably my white basecoat - so that means paintloss :shock: ).
I have no idea what has gone wrong. I waited long enough for the paint to dry...
Could it be that my brush rubs it of???
I only did one coat;

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:01 am 
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What varnish are you using, I have heard this can happen but never experienced it myself, I tend to use Testors Dullcote when I do varnish and so far have had no problems at all with it.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:11 am 
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i use revelll , matt varnish
but the thing is that i never had problems with this B4 , and i already varnished over 20 figures with it

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Could be the way that it dried, making it look frosty which I've heard sometimes happens with dullcote and other varnishes. Is that right?

If so, I dug up this link: http://nicemannersforathief.blogspot.co ... -from.html which another member posted on here.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:29 am 
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Well i think it just paint loss i had. I thin the varnish with water. Sometimes if i mixed it badly the varnish leeps down in deeper parts. But that's just my own mistake for a bit. I just wondered about that paintloss. Don't get why i have it now and never b4.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:47 am 
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Here's what I do:

http://scottswargaming.blogspot.com/2009/05/varnishing.html

I have not had any problems with varnish since adopting this approach

hope this helps
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