Canopy dipping

[Cap'n Wannabe]

With the disappearance of One-Go from the supermarket shelves, it seemed that the replacement product was a floor polish called Wood Magic.
DON'T USE IT!!
It doesn't stick to canopies as One-Go does, and leaves an oily residue behind when wiped off. Hopefully a good wash in soapy water will clean the part so I can start over..

[oz rb fan]

ive used the new airfix acrylic clear gloss of canopies...it works just like one go.

[Adam the Akrodude]

I have a bottle of water soluble new 125 ml Humbrol Clear gloss varnish. I've been assured by Darryl at Hearns that it's good stuff. I've not tried it on a canopy yet, but will do so soon and report findings.

[hrtpaul]

Shit. I knew I forgot something. Gonna have to find a supplier of future I found in Oz again

[tor lives]

Yeah....come on Paul, get ya shit together buddy
TOR

[Knotty]

Polish up stockist , I think it was called big fella .

[hrtpaul]

Polish up stockist , I think it was called big fella .

That's it Knotty. Well done sir

[Nicolas_Fantich]

With the disappearance of One-Go from the supermarket shelves, it seemed that the replacement product was a floor polish called Wood Magic.
DON'T USE IT!!
It doesn't stick to canopies as One-Go does, and leaves an oily residue behind when wiped off. Hopefully a good wash in soapy water will clean the part so I can start over..

Apologies Cap'n - I just had to PMSL when I read your post. You clearly didn't read the label which tells the user to add a couple of capfuls of the stuff to about 5 litres of water. Really .
WTF were you thinking Cap'n ?

By coincidence, I've actually been using Pledge 'Wood Magic' for its intended purpose of late in prepping some old varnished wooden floors in a house I am renovating ATM. Highly recommended (for this purpose).

With two capfuls in a bucket of water, you can dunk the whole bl**dy completed model in it NOT !

Anyways, the original Future is completely and utterly over rated IMHO.

The Humbrol Clear gloss varnish is much more readily available and serves the same/similar purpose. I've used some of this myself on canopies and as a gloss coat prior to decalling and it performs well as you'd expect. I think Humbrol plan to conquer the 'former-Future' market among modellers, just like they are enlivening the older modellers amongst us who find their new tooled Airfix kits the 'cat's pajamas' (with apologies to The Church)

Here's the Humbrol product:
http://www.airfix.com/us-en/humbrol-glo ... ottle.html

This is a useful instructional video for those interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByMhacC5vAE

[Tony P]

The Alclad aqua clear is a good dipper too.

[hrtpaul]

I've been using One Go/Future for ages. And after being shown how to use it correctly by Antoney on AMI, I haven't looked back. I haven't used the Humbrol stuff but at $127/litre compared to about $25/litre for Future, I know which one I'm sticking with