Klear disaster!

[Guest]

I've spent the last few weeks building the revell 1/72 Lancaster.

I'd painted with Humbrol enamel and coated the whole thing with klear before adding the decals.

Tonight I Sprayed another coating of klear to seal the decals in and The whole thing has reacted to something. To say I am gutted is a massive understatement. Sorry some of the pics are a little blurry, but you get the idea.

Some of the dacals have peeled off. I have tried cleaning the klear off with windowlene and it doesn't seem to have done anything. In the process I have broken several small parts off:emo10:

Can any of you suggest what may have caused it?

I used micro sol/set to set the decals, and I wondered if it was that. Although I had no such problem when I did my mustang, recently.

Great start to the weekend eh! I thought It would be weathered and finished by Sunday. Oh how wrong I was.

[Guest]

Hi Rob,

Judging by your pics, the cause of the whitening effect is due to water or moisture somewhere either on the model, in the spray gun or in the air where the model has been left to dry. (Possible water residue on the decals from the Microsol..??)

Speak to any guy in the forces who have used this stuff on their shoes or boots to get that bulled shine and they will all tell you, it looks great till it gets water on it and then it turns white - just as your pics show.

Klear is normally removed with ammonia solution as the label on the bottle will tell you, I certainly would not recommend that on your model though.

It can be sorted easily though, a very light rub down (Just enough to roughen the existing Klear but not the paint) and then re-apply another coat of Klear but make sure there is no moisture on the model and put it somewhere warm and dry till the Klear is dry itself, you should be ok then. The dried white effect should disappear once the new coat is applied.

Ps. make sure any decals you put on are fully dried out before doing the Klear again otherwise you will be back to square one !!

Regards.........Mark

[Guest]

Thanks Mark,

It may have been spraying it in the garage has made condensation form on it?

Are you saying that I only need to key the existing whitened klear or do I have to remove the white bits before I re coat?

The decals are knackered so will have to be removed anyway.

[jspitza]

I've spent the last few weeks building the revell 1/72 Lancaster.I'd painted with Humbrol enamel and coated the whole thing with klear before adding the decals.

Tonight I Sprayed another coating of klear to seal the decals in and The whole thing has reacted to something. To say I am gutted is a massive understatement. Sorry some of the pics are a little blurry, but you get the idea.

Some of the dacals have peeled off. I have tried cleaning the klear off with windowlene and it doesn't seem to have done anything. In the process I have broken several small parts off:emo10:

Can any of you suggest what may have caused it?

I used micro sol/set to set the decals, and I wondered if it was that. Although I had no such problem when I did my mustang, recently.

Great start to the weekend eh! I thought It would be weathered and finished by Sunday. Oh how wrong I was.

WHOA!

Windoline contains ammonia which totally removes Klear. This is how one would remove and excess buildup when its used on floors. Its(klear) very strange stuff-I recently washed one of my models off due to dust and its now clouded. My big mistake but it showed me that klear or future ain't total protection even when its dry. I've switched to tamiya clear or microgloss-testors gloss for laquer. I've very sorry for your loss. You could always try applying klear again in the hopes of it soaking into the mared coat.

[Guest]

My thought is to remove the klear and start again. Though to be honest by the thought of stripping it all, cleaning it up, redecaling and refixing the broken bits (those that I can) isn't filling me with joy.

I don't want the same thing to happen again. Its obviously something to do with water that has caused it.

[Guest]

It turns out that the micro set reacts with the Klear and turns it milky.

I sanded the rough bits away with some wire wool. Touched up the paint. Reapplied the decals. The micro set started reacting again, which is why I know what caused it, so I continued without using it.

I finished it. It's not perfect but gives the bomber a sort of beaten up appearance!

pics are here:

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/aircraft-pictures/6444-fw190-v-s-lancaster.html#post43727