BRera80s Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Hello, For some reason I can only post in the new members area. Perhaps thats because I've never posted a topic before. I've just has an absolute disaster after weathering five locomotives. I wanted to seal the weathering so I purchased some Humbrol Acrylic Varnish is a spray can. Unfortunately in my haste I neglected to try it out first and sprayed the five locomotives with a liberal coating of this stuff. Twenty minutes later I went to check on them and to my horror the varnish has dried creating a milky white layer and seems to have reacted with some of the paint on the original models (Lima, Hornby, Mainline/Bachmann) I've tried scrubbing it off with a toothbrush and water but its not made any difference. Before I try anything else I thought it would be sensible to ask anyone if they have any advice on what to do to avoid a total respray. Any advice welcome, Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corax67 Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Hi Peter - first thing to try is place the loco's in a warm dry place (airing cupboard) and leave for a couple of days. Milky varnish finishes are often associated with spraying when there is a high moisture content in the air - may not be so in your case but the airing cupboard may help & certainly won't make things worse. Toothbrush/water isn't really an option far more likely that chemical stripping of some description may be required. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRera80s Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Thanks Karl, I'll stop panicking and stick them in the airing cupboard as you suggest. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRera80s Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 A quick update, I did a bit of reading last night and many military modellers use a 50/50 solution of Dettol and soak their models overnight then scrub with an old toothbrush. I chose to steep two of them overnight and gave then a good scub this morning. The milky varnish has come off leaving most of the paint below intact. Some of the transfers have come off, but that's easily remedied. I was all set for a trip to Harburn Hobbies to buy railmatch paints and begin the laborious task of respraying all five. It now looks like this may actually work and with a bit of luck all that will be damaged will be my pride. Regards, Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
corax67 Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 A good result - hope the second try is more successful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRera80s Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 Thanks Karl, I've got away with some of them but I've had to partly respray a couple of the rail blue locos and I'm about to do a bit of railfreight grey on one class 37. Well that's one lesson well and truly learned. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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