dullcote, drying

[JaPizzy]

I have a quick question for the experts out there. I was thinking of taking up the practice of dusting the figure between sections with testors dullcote, and I was wondering if you can speed up the drying time with a hair dryer?

 

[EricJ]

in theory I would say you probably could, but I wouldn\'t risk it personally, it doesn\'t take that long to dry, only a few minutes at most, I say just let it be and wait it out

 

[Ritual]

You can generally touch the mini without problems after 10-15 min. So, get yourself a cup of coffee in the mean time instead of pulling out the hairdryer!

 

[JaPizzy]

Really, I didn\'t know that. I always heard that it took like 8 hours to dry before you could paint over it or handle it.

Learn something new every day I guess Thanks for the info guys.

 

[Ritual]

It probably takes longer than 10-15 minutes before the coat is entirely dry, but you can touch it without getting any marks on it after 10-15 minutes. If you only dust it lightly I don\'t think anything bad will happen if you continue to paint it. But try it out and see what happens... it\'s the best way to find out!

 

[supervike]

Sometimes I do spray my minis with dullcoat after certain sections. 15 minutes seems to be about the right time....I also put them directly under my \'desklamp\' though so that probably helps.

 

[hakoMike]

I\'d be cautious about the Testor\'s dullcote after a painting session. I\'ve used Vallejo glaze medium in a paint session, then finished with Testor\'s dullcote, and it left blobbly little snots on my figures. Make sure the the paint/glaze/etc. on the figure is dry before applying the dullcote. I\'ve found that dullcote itself dries very quickly.