I’ve nearly finished remodelling a Hornby mark 4. I’ve painted it, given it a coat of gloss lacquer, applied the transfers and now I need to apply a final coat of matt lacquer to take the shine off. Does anyone have any tips before I spray this stuff all over my beloved model?
I've got no experience of using Halfords matt lacquer but make sure you shake the can incredibly well to ensure that the matting agent is well mixed in with the lacquer. Also spray several thin coats in a warmish room, allowing each to dry rather than one thick coat as anyway the lacquer pools will end up taking a white tinge - Halfords rattle cans don't take long to go touch dry so you could possibly be able to respray every few minutes or so.
While I now have an airbrush, I used to use Games Workshop Purity Seal with great effect on my models. Again shake well and spray several thin coats in a warmish room. The one advantage of Purity Seal is that it really can be put on quite thinly.
Probably the best tip of all is to paint and apply transfers etc to a scrap piece of similar material and test on that so one does not mess up a decent model if it does not work.
