Cheap, accessible FDE Paint found! Now how to protect it?

[Con Murder]

Back to the topic of clear coat, matte finish. I had an rc guy who bashes his stuff recomend shoe sealent to help hold it. How do you think that would work out? I saw his Tmax stock body he painted then 'sealed' and it looked fine, a mix of matte and high gloss so it remaines indifferent to the finish it seems. It couldn't hurt could it?

[Ronan]

Careful guys, FDE reacts very differently to different light conditions.

The FDE parts i have from various companies more or less match (some are a bit brown, the other a bit more green), but once i turn the light on, or take a flash picture, the colors go off the scales.

FDE is notorious to look more tan on photo's also, like this:

While in fact it looks more like this:


This can be easily fixed with a proper White Balance setting.

On the other hand for parts, stick to the same company, since each have a small variation in FDE (but each will react differently to different light source).

The worst you can do is buy diff FDE parts from diff companies and then take a non WB adjusted flash picture, YURK.

On CGN, a couple people had great success FDE duracoating certain parts with very good matching to Magpul FDE's.