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I apologise for starting a varnish thread. I've been varnishing plastic 1/72s, using the old Humbrol gloss varnish. It's nice & thick, does the job, but sadly turns the valejo uniform green bases into quite a deep dark green. Which is ok for them, but not what I want on my Spencer Smiths, which I want to get going with.
So, having bored you with that, could you recommend a nice tin of varnish, which covers nicely & shiney and doesn't turn a mid green base into a dark green base. I'm thinking big tins. Oh, and Gloss. Not matt. Or Satin. Or spray cans. Thanks.

Light green paint? It'll turn midgreen when glossed.

This is actually what I do. I use german camo bright green (vallejo) on all my bases.

Don't gloss the bases.

Use a lighter green.

I suspect acrylic varnish will have less of a colour change effect than a humbrol poly one. You could try one of the smaller vallejo ones first and if that works go big ?

Or as Tim suggests a lighter green. I use GW war boss green for my shiny bases,

On the other hand, you could paint them a totally different colour like Pink or yellow and then when you varnish them they won't look dark green

I'm with Bro on that one (clever bloke).

He’s the bright one in the family

goat major wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:12 am He’s the bright one in the family

Git

valleyboy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:19 am On the other hand, you could paint them a totally different colour like Pink or yellow and then when you varnish them they won't look dark green

He paints the figures pink already.