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dubster72
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Well I guess that's fine for you Barry, but people on here & other forums have often reported difficulties with decalling & washes, hence my reasoning for applying the gloss coats.\ said:I rarely apply more than 1 coat of varnish over Vallejo Model Air before decalling. A second sealing coat goes on after decalling before I do a wash.
I never bothers me at all whether the base coat is gloss, has a slight sheen or is matt. The Tiffy main camo (see in the 2015 24 scale 'Super SIG) has a sheen sufficient to take a wash or decals (AKI acrylics) while the invasion stripes are matt, very matt in the case of the black (Vallejo Model Air). I will be painting in the roundels and these will have different finishes but at the end before I decal it will all get a coat of gloss varnish.
And as I said, in my experience, one coat of any gloss coat isn't sufficient over matt paint. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong!