Dulling glossy paint

[tstage]

I could use some help. I just bought some paint that turned out to be glossier than I wanted it to be. What's the best way to dull a glossy painted finish AFTER it has already been applied? Manually using a 3M scrubby pad seemed to work okay. Are there other chemical alternatives? Thanks!

Tom

[tomwatkins]

Testor's Dullcote is an excellent flat finish. It's available both in spray cans and in bottles if you'd prefer to airbrush it. It needs to be thinned for airbrushing. It provides a very flat finish with no sheen at all. Floquil's Clear Flat is another excellent product, also available in spray cans and bottles. It's not totally flat but rather has a slight sheen to it.
Hope this helps,
Tom Watkins

[der5997]

That high gloss isn't all bad either. When you get around to decals, you'll need the smoothness of the high gloss for the decal to rest against. Then a little Solvaset softens the decal down into the paint. When it's all dry, the Dullcoat makes the decal indistinguishable from the paint (as far as texture goes.)
These dulling sprays are way more effective than the scub pad appraoch, and less likely to knock delicate parts from your models. If you use the spray can dulling products, be careful to have good ventilation.
Good luck with htis.

[Allen Jenkins]

All equipment comes from the builder's paint shop glossy. No railroad dulcoats anything. The only flat finish found in any industry is military ordinance. They wish for no kind of glare to give-away presence. The one thing that turns me off is to see a painstaking decent locomotive, on the cover of a modelers magazine, totally dulcoated! Most railroads spec acrylic paint, which can shed dirt in a rainstorm, and resists fading. The carbody is repainted on the million mile rebuild, and enamel is used on the trucks, underframe, fueltanks, and pilots. What your looking for is a way around the practice of weathering, for any condition, even if you want "old", top to tracks. Duncecoat cannot replace soot, rust, splash of railgrime from spinning wheels on the ends of equipment, paint color fade, grease, fuel, graffty, chalk marks, or chewing tobbacco spit out the window! Weather It! ACJ.