Hi guys, I wanted to ask your help on how to properly protect the color on the minis. I usually apply a thin layer of mat varnish, but in-spite being thinned down it still has a glow. Most importantly though i've seen many cases where I gad applied varnish but chips of paint were nevertheless lost. So I'd appreciate it if you gave me some advice on how to protect the paint. It's a same spending days for a model only to see it slowly lose paint.

Thanks in advance

Offhand, I'd say you're putting the varnish on too thin. I use the spray cans, so that generally gets me a pretty even coat while making it quick and easy to get enough of the stuff on.
What brand of clear-coat are you using?

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If by clear- coat you mean varnish, then I use the GW ones.

One of the best ways is to actually put on a coat of gloss varnish first. It will dry with a hard outer surface, follow that with any number of matte coats to get rid of the gloss. That should protect your mini pretty well.
I view my min's in two ways. It is either a tool or a jewel. The "tool" mini's tend to be the plastic mini's that are stand infantry, while the jewels are the metal ones. This is not always the case but it generally holds true. Tools get put into storage any which way, jewels are carefully placed standing up, or if they are too tall they are placed on foam or paper towel.
Another thing to help paint stay on, get a good even layer of primer, not too think and not too thin. Make sure it is a primer for metal if you are using generic primer form a non-game store.

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Just for the record, I do not use varnish, not to disparage it, but it seems pointless to use on the plastic miniatures as the paint rarely, if ever, chips.

I do see the use on metals, as the paint does chip rather frequently, but I have resigned myself to simply re-touching the model. Though I usually make sure that the final highlight is a standard (non-mixed) color, thus simplifying life.

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do see the use on metals, as the paint does chip rather frequently, but I have resigned myself to simply re-touching the model. Though I usually make sure that the final highlight is a standard (non-mixed) color, thus simplifying life.

I know but when paint gets chipped off from a part of the mini that's needs detail, ex. face, it can be a bumper.