DynaSoar
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Good: Rustoleum "American Accents" Satin White. Highly preferable to their glossy. Nearly glossy itself, better adhesion to later coats, and you can pile this stuff on far more before it runs. I had a very bad balsa nose with many pits still after 3 double coats of lacquer sanding sealer and 2 double coats of primer. 2 coats of this stuff and it came out glassy.
Bad: Rustoleum "American Accents" matte finish clear coat. Turned glossy black into black with uneven a mounts of light colored dust. I believe it also made decals get very brittle and flake (though they might have been bad decals, they can get this way if they get hot). A very nice Black Brandt is now not very nice at all.
Ugly: Same stuff turned the aluminum coat on a Kappa 9M to battleship grey. This, however, is fixable. Luckily I'd only got to the stainless steel details, not the fluourescent red, so masking will only be a minor pain.
Also ugly: Rustoleum stainless steel paint if you use too much. The finish is remarkably smooth and shiny, but if you use too much, the shine which is building up under the fluid surface "cracks" so that the base grey in the paint shows through. Luckily this touches up easily with a a few small squirts, and they bland right in. The bad news is this stuff takes 2 days to dry.
Bad: Rustoleum "American Accents" matte finish clear coat. Turned glossy black into black with uneven a mounts of light colored dust. I believe it also made decals get very brittle and flake (though they might have been bad decals, they can get this way if they get hot). A very nice Black Brandt is now not very nice at all.
Ugly: Same stuff turned the aluminum coat on a Kappa 9M to battleship grey. This, however, is fixable. Luckily I'd only got to the stainless steel details, not the fluourescent red, so masking will only be a minor pain.
Also ugly: Rustoleum stainless steel paint if you use too much. The finish is remarkably smooth and shiny, but if you use too much, the shine which is building up under the fluid surface "cracks" so that the base grey in the paint shows through. Luckily this touches up easily with a a few small squirts, and they bland right in. The bad news is this stuff takes 2 days to dry.