The liquid concerned is often thought of as a floor polish but it is actually an acrylic varnish that is clear extremely hard wearing it is meant for floors and does not yellow with age.
Klear floor polish models.
It is an acrylic coating that dries hard and has the nice feature that it can be re desolved by a solution of ammonia.
Pascoe s long life self shining floor polish is now marketed under the brand name holdfast in new zealand.
Johnson product also comes in new packaging.
It has also retained both the clear colourless.
It is sometimes referred to as a wax.
Be careful not to hit too many of your raised areas or leading and trailing edges as this will take the paint of of them as well.
You can see its ingredients here.
During the 3rd quarter of 2008 the product klear was discontinued more on that in a moment.
We can t guarantee its identity internationally.
What i have learned over the past few months is to polish your paint job prior to starting your clear coats.
Johnsons klear acrylic floor polish has been popular with model makers of all disciplines for the past decade or so and many of us mourned the day that it was discontinued.
This is incorrect as there is no wax in it.
It is widely used by modelers as a gloss finish.
The ever useful for modeling purposes floor polish goes by a new moniker now.
None of which the old klear was causing.
The us rebranding of future floor finish to pledge with future shine apparently has been a genuine re branding only with no formula change and the renamed product performs exactly as the old named product did which was an identical product to klear.
In the united kingdom and new zealand it is known as klear krystal klear or johnson s one and all.
Part two of a series.
Up next polishing floor polish.
It has resurfaced in a number of other guises since however the re formulated versions have not been so user friendly or as crystal clear.
It is made by johnsons and is available in most parts of the world although it goes under different names future in the us klear in europe.
Here at the magazine we ll be using its full name upon first reference and pfg after.