Astonish Flawless Wood Floor Polish

[Nomad]

Today wifey darling wanted to go to Nottingham to check out a few shops and apparently I was quite keen to go too, or so I was told!

Whilst obediently shambling round ‘Poundworld’ on the Lady Bay Retail Park I cast my eye over the shelf of cleaning products in the vain hope of finding a lost bottle of ‘Klear’, no such luck of course, however I did spot this product;

Which claims to do a similar job to Klear, and reading the instructions it rang a few bells;

Sound familiar? So for a quid I thought it has to be worth a punt.

Tonight I’ve brushed two coats onto a layer of well dried Humbrol matt paint and then given it a quick buff with kitchen roll. It’s come up to quite a pleasing semi-gloss and tomorrow I’ll try layering on another coat to see if I can improve the shine. I don’t know if this has genuine possibilities to be a replacement for the hollowed Klear, but for a quid a bottle?

Hopefully some-one with more experience of Klear will be willing to try it for themselves and feed-back an opinion.

Damon

[Jon Kunac-Tabinor]

HI Damon - looks interesting, As the orginal promoter of QuickShine on here, I'll see if I can find a bottle and do some tests.

Though - I'm not sure if the Astonish Dirt repelling wood floor cleaner ( as seen on the back of youer model) will be much use for anyone wanting a weathered finish!

cheers

Jonners

[robvulcan]

i havent used this one, but i have used astonish floor polish in a blue container and new formular klear, both are excelent at sealing models for washes, and for shineing models, it does get shiney the more coats you put on, and i recoment a very thin brush coat first , then build up layers after, it settles fine and does self level, it is good stuff,

but old klear is better for decals, i apply my decals onto a little puddle of old klear, position and the klear will suck the decal down into details and get rid of silvering and make decals look painted on and holds them strong,

the new brands do not do this and decals look like decals still which sucks, as for this particular version of the brand i dont know, id like to know what is was that was in old klear that made decals behave in the suck down to details manner,

[Nomad]

id like to know what is was that was in old klear that made decals behave in the suck down to details manner,

I read a bit on the interweb a while ago that made comment about the ammonia content of old Klear and how it had fallen foul of new European safety regs, don't know if this was an accurate commentary 'cos it was tangled up in a vitriolic rant about EU interference in British law, so may be nonsense, like the mythical 'straight banana' diktat. However a quick Google did reveal this policy document about the intention to reduce ammonia waste(among others). Maybe the caustic nature of ammonia has a softening effect on the decals?

Hmm, wonder if there's any mileage in trying to mix a spot of ammonia with new formula? Or is that just a recipe for self asphyxiation?

Any chemists available to comment?

Damon

[robvulcan]

I read a bit on the interweb a while ago that made comment about the ammonia content of old Klear and how it had fallen foul of new European safety regs, don't know if this was an accurate commentary 'cos it was tangled up in a vitriolic rant about EU interference in British law, so may be nonsense, like the mythical 'straight banana' diktat. However a quick Google did reveal this policy document about the intention to reduce ammonia waste(among others). Maybe the caustic nature of ammonia has a softening effect on the decals?

Hmm, wonder if there's any mileage in trying to mix a spot of ammonia with new formula? Or is that just a recipe for self asphyxiation?

Any chemists available to comment?

Damon

maybe mixing ammonia might work, anyone want to risk asphyxiation for us lovely chaps on BM. i heard something about white vinegar but not tried that. rob

[Peter W]

I've never used Astonish but Stoohoo on the forum has been using it for a few years with good success. I'm sure that he'll come along sometime and comment but his models always looked good when finished.

Pete