resin/varnish coating q
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- colin_s
so i have a series of collages i put a resin/varnish on to hold everything together. there's a pretty blatant reflective sheen now (think new mac laptops).
i wanted to kill it and was recommended sandpaper but that made everything kind of muddy. am i doing something wrong or was this a bad recommendation? i don't mind having additional texture, it's the whole "making the varnish foggy" that is pissing me off because it's losing the details in the collage.
thanks
- version30
you can wet sand the cloudiness out with 1000+ grit paper
- colin_s0
i looked up wet sanding but it looks like you have to buff out the wet sanding process afterwards, which would just retain the glossy coating.
- version30
then buff it out to your liking
- miesvan0
Read here:
http://www.ukphilately.org.uk/co…
- blaw0
Try using a 3M Scotch Brite pad. It's a synthetic pad that works like steel wool without the metal debris. Light gray is equivalent to #0000 steel wool.
Here's a comparison chart in .PDF:
http://academic.evergreen.edu/pr…