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A happy-ish accident

Pugsley

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Due to a varnish malfunction, what used to look like this:

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Now looks like this:

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And what used to look like this:

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Now looks like this:

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The moral of this story is, if you're using a varnish for the first time, don't use it on anything important. On the plus side, I now get to try the filter technique on the TTA, and set myself a huge challenge in replicating this:

http://www.flickr.co...57603195747980/

 

I wanted to do it before, but wasn't sure how I was going to do it. Now, these oils seem to be perfect for this kind of thing, so I'm going to give it a go.

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Chris Nevard

Spot on!

 

I remember something like this happened when I was doing a Vi-Trains class 37 (my airbrush went splat). 3 minutes of panic with tissue and white spirit revealed something that was much better than I ever achieved before.

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Jon020

Well, that's a nice challenge you've set yourself there. Just for our sake... which varnish were you using and how when it all went err,,, how do we say this er... t#ts up?

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James Hilton

Oh arse! I presume a number of expletives were muttered (or shouted) when all that work went down the toilet. Good luck - you're a more patient man then me - they'd have been put to the back of the modelling pile if it was me!

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I remember when I was varnishing my DJH Standard Class 4 2-6-4T - I was using an acrylic varnish for the first time, via the airbrush, and it went all splodgy. Some quick work with a paint brush ensued, and the finish ended up looking like it had been sprayed anyway!

 

That was back in 1998. I still haven't weathered it...

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Pugsley

I believe the technical phrase is 'Oh bug*er!'...

Yes, that was one of the many expletives that were uttered once I realised what had happened!

 

It was the experimental varnish that caused the problem, I must have picked up too much matting agent when I took it out of the bottle, as they went all white and speckly. Still, a bit of deft work with some wet and dry and a respray in the case of the TTA has sorted things out.

 

James - It's not so much patience, as refusing to be beaten! :lol:

 

Chris - It's always nice when something good comes out of a near disaster!

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