Gloss Varnish.

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Buff Orpington wrote: Thu Jul 02, 2020 8:37 am I think that you should paint your bases with that nice shade of pureed frozen lettuce that EB used on his shiny games table.
'Urban Lettuce'.
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Peeler wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 6:05 pm I made my choice for my preferred one....
And it was the one what I'd already been using. I'm happy again. 🙄
And since then, I've had a sleep and a cheese sandwich. And thought, nah, I'm not actually happy with that. It's too dark and sucks the soul out of the glossy figures. So off I trotted to Boyes and bought another half dozen green variants and more gloss varnish.
Tried them, compared them, and finally, eventually, after much discussion with myself and others, decided on vallejo 82 olive green. Quite deep but light enough to show off my decidedly average and shiney chaps. So there we are. I'm happy again.
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And it’s a top choice. Looking forward to those shiny fellas lining up in front of my machine guns in October
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A good coat of thick gloss varnish acts like a shield to those poncey machine gun bullets.
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The glare means you can’t spot the gliders though
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Until they land on a cliff face and disgorge a dozen elite MG teams from each door.
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Christ - is this thread still active?
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Its polyurethane, it takes a while to dry.
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People just keep glossing over the subject Ken. Frankly it’s all getting a bit tacky.
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It’s kill or cure
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