discussion Vallejo Satin Varnish?

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Brushing Belco. I remember it well Gregg. Little tin pots.

Smelly. Most paints were compared to know. Virtually dried as the brush left the pot.

Painted my BSA Bantam with it top to tail. But it was an awful paint at least for me. Remember my father looking at the bike and saying to me "you have made a right mess of that". Jolly unfair I had spent hours and many pots of Belco.

Tried I suppose it must have been a cheap airbrush and that worked a little better.

The great paint in those days, as emulsion paint was just working its very expensive way onto the market, was distemper. You had to be a good painter to get a good coverage. I remember my father putting coat upon coat until satisfied. After years of putting the stuff on it started to peel and in cases just fall off. Then it was a matter of scraping the whole ceiling to the bare plaster. Then some of that came away with the distemper. What a mess.

Laurie

 

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The polyurethanes I was familiar with thirty years ago were not water soluble but I've been doing a bit of googling and it seems that water soluble ones have been developed. I don't know how recently this was, the first article I read about it was in a scientific journal (the imaginatively entitled 'Journal of Applied Polymer Science') published in 2004. Amazingly I still understood nearly all of it Another article, dated 1992, in the even more imaginatively named 'European Polymer Journal' confirmed which polyurethanes are water soluble and went into a load of maths relating to solubility which I didn't understand and probably wouldn't have thirty years ago.

After this I was losing the will to live and decided to end my new found scientific career and get back to spraying my Corsair.....with oil based enamels!

Cheers

Steve

Bet you wish you still had that Corsair, not many left now and worth a mint.

Remember well rebuilding the bottom end of one of these in the early 70's.

Gregg

 

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Brushing Belco. I remember it well Gregg. Little tin pots.Smelly. Most paints were compared to know. Virtually dried as the brush left the pot.

Painted my BSA Bantam with it top to tail. But it was an awful paint at least for me. Remember my father looking at the bike and saying to me "you have made a right mess of that". Jolly unfair I had spent hours and many pots of Belco.

Tried I suppose it must have been a cheap airbrush and that worked a little better.

The great paint in those days, as emulsion paint was just working its very expensive way onto the market, was distemper. You had to be a good painter to get a good coverage. I remember my father putting coat upon coat until satisfied. After years of putting the stuff on it started to peel and in cases just fall off. Then it was a matter of scraping the whole ceiling to the bare plaster. Then some of that came away with the distemper. What a mess.

Laurie

Another that some may be old enough to remember 'SNOWCEM' A self sacrificial water based white (distemper type) paint.

It shed its outer coating to (supposedly) keep its clean appearance.

Under no circumstance lean against it, unless you like the looking like the ghost look!

Gregg