S049 Clear Orange - (Gloss) Spray

Gunze Mr.Color Spray – Clear Orange (a clear lacquer aerosol, 40 ml)

A lacquer spray from the Mr.Color range by the Japanese brand Gunze. Watch out – this is a clear (transparent) orange with no covering power. It does not behave like an ordinary paint: it colors what is underneath translucently, like stained glass, so the resulting tone is set by what lies below. The package is a pressurized can of 40 ml, it sprays straight from the aerosol and you need neither an airbrush nor a compressor.

Use

• Coloring transparent parts: orange turn signals, beacons, warning lights and lenses gain realistically orange glass.
• The candy effect: laid over a gold, silver or metallic base it gives a brilliant, deep candy orange.
• Corrosion and heat effects: the tinting of rust, the suggestion of hot metal and of the transitions on exhausts and glowing parts.
• Spray thinly and in several coats from a distance of about 25 cm – what is underneath is meant to show through. Every further coat deepens the shade, a heavy coat makes blotches.
• It comes out best over a smooth, finely sanded and ideally metallic surface.

Who it is for

For modelers who need a clear tinting paint, not an opaque orange – for beacons and turn signals, candy finishes and the effects of rust or hot metal on cars, motorcycles, vehicles and sci-fi models. Under a candy orange a gold or silver metallic spray makes a brilliant base; the finished surface can be sealed with a clear coat.

Mr.Color is a lacquer – the solvent can attack bare plastic as well as some transparent parts, so test and spray in thin coats. Work only in a well-ventilated space or outdoors and use a respirator. Flammable, do not spray near open flame. In damp or cold conditions the surface may whiten (a haze).