I refuse to believe that the "Alclad II Lacquer - Chrome" can only be applied with an airbrush.
So I bought a bottle from STORM domain @ Shaw Towers @ $14.
I allowed the paint to settle overnight because the contents in the bottle was approximately 80% thinner and 20% paint.
Then I used a dropper, dip it to the bottom of the bottle, suck up the essence of the paint and transfered it to another clean bottle for storage.
I read from the official Alclad website that chrome is to be applied over a primed surface.
The surface should be primed with gloss enamel black.
"Chrome and only chrome should be used over gloss black model enamel paint."
Well, what I have is FLAT black enamel and mr. color black gloss.
So I took an empty tree, painted a part of it with enamel and another part with mr. color.
Then I hand painted the fairly concentrated Alclad chrome on the primed surfaces as well as on an unprimed surface.
Here are the visuals:
From the pictures, everything looks shiny.
But in actual fact the flat black enamel primed surface produced better results.
The chorme appears shinier and the paint spreads out more evenly and easily.
As for the mr. color surface, the outcome is rather dull and there wasn't enough sheen.
The unprimed surface gave similar results like that of the mr. color surface.
posted by Laurens @ 12:31 PM
2 Comments:
still think u paid too much arthur
a desperate man goes to desperate measures.
no choice lah......cannot find in sg liao
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