Hi everyone. I'm just getting into painting my ships and I've got some questions about painting cockpit windows. I'd like to add a bit of shine onto them so I'm wondering what product people use and what order to do things in. I typically use dullcote on the things I paint but I'm wondering if that will cause the cockpit to lose some of it's shine.

1. Paint ship
2. Wash ship
3. Add some gloss to the windows
4. Dullcote

OR

1. Paint ship
2. Wash ship
3. Dullcote
4. add gloss to windows
5. add gloss varnish to windows

What does everyone else typically do and what product do you use?

Thanks in advance for any replies!

23 minutes ago, imrandy85 said:

• Paint ship
• Wash ship
• Dullcote
• add gloss to windows

Do this... If you dullcote after you gloss the canopy, you'll find your canopy becomes dull again too.

19 hours ago, LagJanson said:

Do this... If you dullcote after you gloss the canopy, you'll find your canopy becomes dull again too.

I do the same.

-DD

I typically do this:

1. paint rest of ship
2. Paint metallic silver in cockpit glass area
3. Use light glaze in cockpit glass area
4. Use wash (same color) in cockpit glass area
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 about 5 times, or until the glass starts to look like glass. The idea is to get a deep coat of color (Red, green, or blue, sometimes purple) over metal flaky underside.
6. Touch up metal cage around cockpit
7. Dullcote whole ship
8. 'Ardcoat the cockpit glass and any other shiny parts

You can always work a highlight into between step 3 and 4, starting with the color of the cockpit glass and moving towards white (making it smaller each iteration).