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No, not the future, just Future.
Future is a product developed by Johnson in the US, the UK equivalent being Johnson's Klear, although there has long been speculation as to whether the formulation is the same or not.
Future/Klear is a hard clear acrylic covering for floors, but modellers have been finding uses for it for years. It comes in a bottle of about 1/2 a litre, which will last the average modeller a long time and cost less than £3 the last time I bought some.
It can be used as a gloss coating before and after decalling. Acrylic paint such as Tamiya can be added to it to form translucent colours, or Tamiya Flat Base added to make it matt or satin depending on the amount. Some modellers even use it instead of Micro Sol and similar products, when applying decals. One of its more interesting uses is for clear parts such as cockpit canopies; drop a canopy into Future/Klear, take it aout and leave it to dry and it looks much better. Small blemishes are rendered invisible.
Caution: Johnson's Klear disappeared from the UK about a year ago. Its replacement, "Pledge Multi Surface Floor Wax," is NOT the same thing. It is a pale brown colour instead of clear and is much thinner. It is early days yet so opinions differ as to how different it is; some experimentation might be necessary before committing it to an important project!
For more on this fascinating product, Swanny's Models has a whole page of info:
http://www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.htm...
Future is a product developed by Johnson in the US, the UK equivalent being Johnson's Klear, although there has long been speculation as to whether the formulation is the same or not.
Future/Klear is a hard clear acrylic covering for floors, but modellers have been finding uses for it for years. It comes in a bottle of about 1/2 a litre, which will last the average modeller a long time and cost less than £3 the last time I bought some.
It can be used as a gloss coating before and after decalling. Acrylic paint such as Tamiya can be added to it to form translucent colours, or Tamiya Flat Base added to make it matt or satin depending on the amount. Some modellers even use it instead of Micro Sol and similar products, when applying decals. One of its more interesting uses is for clear parts such as cockpit canopies; drop a canopy into Future/Klear, take it aout and leave it to dry and it looks much better. Small blemishes are rendered invisible.
Caution: Johnson's Klear disappeared from the UK about a year ago. Its replacement, "Pledge Multi Surface Floor Wax," is NOT the same thing. It is a pale brown colour instead of clear and is much thinner. It is early days yet so opinions differ as to how different it is; some experimentation might be necessary before committing it to an important project!
For more on this fascinating product, Swanny's Models has a whole page of info:
http://www.swannysmodels.com/TheCompleteFuture.htm...
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