How To Use Pledge Floor Gloss To Clear Coat Your Model Kits - It's Easy For Great Results !! 

Wow!!! This is amazing! I can't wait to try it out on soooo much stuff

I love The fact you're so passionate about your hobby, you know a lot about airbrushing and from what I can see you are great at it as well, thank you for the Wealth of knowledge that you have share it with us. Have a great day!

Quick Shine multi surface floor finish is a great substitute for the Pledge stuff . Available at Wal Mart for a lot less than people are charging for the discontinued Pledge .

This is the go to channel for airbrush painting!

Wow. Just yesterday I walked to the hardware store and bought my first bottle of Pledge/Future to try as a gloss coat. Then this morning this video is in my notifications. Thank you so much!

Thank you for making these videos, I have recently gotten several chrome paints and not been sure how to airbrush them on or how to protect them, been binging your videos the past couple of days

I've been building for about 45 years and I admit, when I started seeing this trick, I was extremely skeptical, but Im willing to at least try it. After scouring every store in three counties and coming up empty handed, I wound up ordering it off of Amazon. It arrived today while I was at work. I first did a test shot on a panel I use to test paint colors. After seeing no I'll effects after three coats, I set it up to cure, then I hit it with a used dryer sheet. After being satisfied it wouldn't hurt my paint, I proceeded to shoot it on a truck I'm building (AMT KENWORTH W925) The results are absolutely incredible!!! A nice, deep, uniform shine on all surfaces. Thank you for the great video and for sharing this. I'll be telling all my friends who build.

I just wanted to point out how much I appreciate being welcomed back to the bench in all the videos.

Just tested this on a warhammer mini, if it works well after it's dried I'll definitely clear my whole army with this. Thanks man!

I'm about to start placing bets as to what Rex is going to run through his brushes next lol. But awesome reviews, awesome tips. Wish more people would explain things as well as you man.

I’ve been using this future floor wax with acrylics to break the surface tension for a long time. It’s a great and cheap product.

If you mix the Pledge revive it with Tamiya X-21 Flat Base, you can adjust it from being a gloss to a satin, or even a flat. For example a ratio of 5:1 will produce a flat coat, where 10:1 will be somewhere between a flat and a satin, and 15:1 will give a satin finish.

I've used this for my clear parts for a while now. Great results!

For anyone watching this in 2023...just like so many other great products used in a lot of Barbatos's videos, this Pledge floor gloss is discontinued as of January of last year, and now scalpers are selling bottles for over $60 when it normally cost about $6-7. This method definitely isn't going to save you any money at this point

Outstanding video ! Thank you for your time and hard work

your videos are very informative and saves us time and money in seeing what works and what we can use as alternatives.. its also comforting to see a fellow backlog enthusiast.. cheers!

Excellent work, as always.

Mr. Rex another informative video. Three things, one it goes on thin and is ok in durability you have to be very careful if you want to use a rubbing compound for a better shine you'll will rub through it. Two, future pledge or any other floor polish is kind of like an acrylic polyurethane and can use it like you would use the Createx 4030 or any other model gloss varnish. Three you can use it to thin thick craft paint. It give it more adhesion and it makes the paint flow better. And on the Airfix starter kits where you the paint it with brush with the supplied paint I've brushed on Future clear as a basecoat it works like a primer but clear.............I've gone through bottles of this stuff through the years............Thanks Mr. Rex

great video showing the pledge for clear, one other tip to share, if you take a used dryer sheet and after a day or so, rub the futures on the item you sprayed, and it gets super shinny, like buffing a real car, its pretty cool

I am looking forward to your ink test reviews

Great video broham. My go to top coat! Cheaper per ounce to coat before decals. I do buy a brand name matt varnish, it's a must.

thanks used it on my window of an OLD kit 60 ford loved it thanks

The cloudy polish is decent for making wargaming and military washes and is useful for terrain and dioramas. I don't know if it has any acceptable applications for car kits or gunplas as people want a factory finish. But this Pledge Future Shine stuff is awesome. When you find it, stock up. Lots of people use it on cockpits and windshields.

Very useful video…but now I’m dying for the ink video! I’ve recently been delving into inks and I’m very interested in the Dr. PH inks. Waiting for that vid!

So oddly enough I don't do any modeling, but your content carries over to a lot of things I do. I've picked up a lot of great tips that have been very useful. Though you did get me inspired and I picked up an older Bandai 1/1000 Space Pirate Ship Arcadia. As much as I'm amazed with all the paint, you have a ton a models too!

Amazing. Heard about this for years. TY.

There's a paint I found at my local store called Unicorn Spit. I dunno much about it other that it's a Gel based paint and it's used on wood to stain it... Dunno if it's suitable for modeling but definitely am tempted to buy one and trying it out on a throw away project. Figure I'd tell you about it since you are really into exploring paints and tools.

I have recently have started diving back into the model hobby after too many years away. I can't believe how the hobby has evolved (which is a good thing). Thank you for all the work you do for your episodes it shows through I'm really enjoying all of your content. Thank you for the inspiration to better my skills.

Awesome tutorial video sensei

Great Video!! Like you said "It's the poor mans 2K". You should have tried it over a darker color, it shows up better. A lot of purists insist that this should never ever be used on a model kit. Not everyone can afford the 2K nor is everyone going for a competition quality build. This does work well and I have never had any issues with any kit that I've applied it to. For clean up, I use straight ammonia to clean the Pledge Floor Gloss out of my airbrush when I'm done. After the ammonia bath I rinse with hot tap water. I've never had an issue with this method of cleaning. I also have a video concerning the use of Pledge on my channel.

anybody ever try clear shellac or miniwax gloss polycrylic for finish coat? I am excited to see how the iridescent inks do because i have a bunch of those from an art project i did a few years ago. i like watching you do it Barb because you wont ruin your airbrush like i would due to lack of experience with them. Thanks for showing this Barbatos!

Good informations. Never saw such clean spray booth. 🤔

Thanks, I’ve just tried it and it’s fantastic 👍

Nice thanks for the demo!

Great video, thanks for sharing!! 👍👍👍👍👍

Ty for the tip.I am going try it

Boy I wish I had your painting skills! I've used Pledge for awhile ...dipping windshields and headlights..it sprays so nice out of the airbrush....most importantly you spill it on the floor...who cares! Thank you again my brother....spray-on!

Great vid thanks for the info!

It's good stuff. Very versatile. I actually use it to make thinner too. Just 50/50 pledge and distilled water. It seems to work great as a thinner and I could swear it helps the paint to level nicely too. Only caveat is that it turns matte paint into more of a semi gloss or satin finish. People use it to dip cockpits and windscreens etc into as well. Some even use it as an adhesive to fix those parts in place.

Another great video.

Love the booth

Thanks for doing this video. I've been using it for well over 20 years with great results. I recently started using a 50/50 mix with Mr. Leveling thinner. Works great. But using warm water to clean it out never really dawned on me. I'll have to try it next time.

Old 00 1/100 scale and a 4th gen prelude. Me jealous nice collection

im new to all this stuff thanks for the info

Nice. Been doing this for years. Lol now we gotta stock up on extra bottles so the rest of the riff-raff doesn’t buy up our supply! 😃😃😃

When u polish and wax after it turns out awesome.

Excellent video…I use this and it works great. And if you need to you can wash it off.

Master class sealant hack, man, you have the absolute best tips for airbrushing, thanks for all the instructionals and tips for this beginner.

Great video! I use pledge all the time and your airbrush cleaner mixture works great for cleaning pledge out of the airbrush.

So I picked up a bottle of 'Revive It' from a local Ace Hardware Store (3rd one that I pass on the way home from work). No other stores like Walmart, Target or Meijers even carries them at all. The only one that carries it besides Ace is Amazon at twice the price, and some other vendors their are even way higher than that! Come to find out that it has now been discontinued by the manufacturer. My area Ace stores informed me that their warehouse still has about 300 in stock, so I ordered myself an extra bottle so I'm set for awhile... 😉

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i've been using that product with a paint brush after a mat varnish to bring some gloss back on "wet stuff" (works great on organs and gore)

Thanks dude, I had been looking for info on using pledge, Looking forward to your ink test, are you going to cover the Molotow chrome?

I've been using this as a clear coat for a few years. Found it on Ebay for about 10.00. You don't need much, I apply with a brush and have had very good results.

Great video - clear and to the point. Have you ever tried airbrushing Pledge onto clear parts? I can't get a smooth / clear result - may be due to the Pledge not going onto paint? (I am an amateur hobbiest.) Also, have you tried Pledge over Alclad Chrome (which can be difficult to clear coat)?

I actually still have a bottle of this from when it was "Future" brand. Got it out while watching this, and one thing that I notice is that it has turned from crystal clear, to slightly yellow. Hopefully that doesn't affect the finish over the years...

wow nice review interested in the ink after all molotow has been said to be a like/type of ink 🤔thanks scooter d😎ps never built a Gundam kit but those look cool🤩

Just a heads up, this floor wax has all but disappeared off the shelves now. I'm looking for anything that isn't $88 by scalpers. EDIT: J&J have discontinued the floor wax. It is no longer going to be sold.

Can you paint over pledge and is this good for sealing acrylic painted models and lastly is this good for making blacks glossy for chroming paint? Thank you for your time, love the videos :)

Sure, check out my video on this topic here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nojG6cz_6sY.htmlsi=FcLBqWEJS5Pf280i

I do everything with my airbrushes except applying Pledge. I use a very soft wide brush for applying Pledge and it is perfect. No puddles no drips.

Thanks! Great video! I'll try this one out, any tips or videos for Matt Clears?

Thanks for the Vid Mr Rex. Im really surprised you didnt thin the pledge. I'm a hand brusher and will try this out on my next model. Thanks again.

Thank you for the info, if needed can you still sand it and cut and polish?

Amazing

I've seen it used as a medium for making washes, like GWs medium, for years. It used to be called Future Floor finish or Floor wax. Then they changed the name.

Pledge used to be Future. Johnson & Johnson acquired it and eventually rebranded it as Pledge. For a time, only the cloudy, lemon-scented was available. Fortunately, they re-released the old Future formula, but under the Pledge brand name. With regard to acrylic metallics: Vallejo Metal Colors are superb, followed by their Model Colour metallics; after Vallejo, Army Painter are excellent as are ProAcryl from Monument Hobbies. Though, only the Vallejo Metallic Colours are have a reasonable shine, the rest are rather dull and brushed-looking. Green Stuff out of Spain has some excellent metallic pigments/powders made from metal instead of mica and can be mixed with any medium you choose. So, if you prefer acrylics, you can mix them with acrylic, gloss, semi-gloss or matte medium and/or simply mix them with Vallejo's acrylic polyurethane varnishes. Personally, I have not tried mixing them with Pledge/Future floor polish, but I gave mixed acrylic paints with it for decades to make what is generally referred to as "magic wash", which is great for shadowing and weathering. Pledge also makes a good base for water-slide transfers. A note on Army Painter: pop the dropper off and stir thoroughly before shaking for 2 minutes prior to initial use. If they do not come with an agitator, a marine-grade 8mm metal bearing works, though I personally prefer hematite so, over the years there is no chance of rust.

Can't wait to see what exactly the ink is for

Thanks for this. Can you use Isopropyl alcohol instead of acetone to clean the airbrush after using the floor gloss?

I started using it here in the UK about a year ago and it works really well. I believe it USED to be called Future but my particular bottle is exactly the same as yours - name, colour, everything. As you say, so much very much cheaper than the branded stuff and just as good

I have a question about the best chrome look but…for car interior details! I want to paint some details like air vent frames etc. What kind of paint and clear coat you recommend for that kind of job? Green Stuff Chrome + Pledge Floor Gloss + 2K Clear coat should work? Thanks and greetings from Poland!! 🙌

I’m really interested to see the Ink tests you mentioned at the end of the video. Do you have any plans to still do those videos or did you try and it didn’t go well, if so it would be great to know what happened. Thanks for all the great content!

Ive used pledge for dipping my glass for a crystal clear finish. I also use it as a thinner for my acrylics and a topcoat prior to applying decals. Ive only used it twice as a clearcoat with mixed results. The first time I used it as a clear coat, it looked fantastic till it cured and dried to an uneven finish with micro bubbles. The second time I used it as a clearcoat, it was ok, but it didnt take tape and pulled off my decals. It has its purpose bit for ultra clear coats, I stick with laquer top coats I can polish

thank you!!!

@barbatos Rex, will you do any videos on spray can clears? What would you recommend?

Thank you for the great demonstration. I am getting in to painting and decaling my own rail cars. It is recommended that I put a gloss coat down first to prevent silvering under the decals. How long do you wait for the gloss to dry fully? Is there a problem with a putting on a top coat of Testor's Dullcote? Thanks.

Another great video! Man I’ve learned so much from you I actually upped my airbrush and paint game to the next level. Very grateful for all the info you’ve shared. Showing your mountainous backlog is always a bonus. It’s like visiting a local brick and mortar hobby shop! 😆 Sadly those are hard to come by these days. Everything is mostly online now.

Forgot to ask you about my airbrush. I have a creos platinum 289 that you recommended from Spray Gunner and it is a 0.3 needle and is my go to. You made a comment in this vid about changing the needle on you creos 270 from 0.3 to 0.5. Do you know if it possible to do this for the 289?. I guess I would need the 0.5 needle and nozzle but not sure if I would also need a different packing screw and needle cap. Hope you can put me straight.

Mr. Rex, a quick question. I use a portable compressor (saving for a proper compressor) and am wondering if this would be OK to spray with said compressor? Using a iwata neo w/ .3 needle, also a cheap brush that came with the compressor.

*_Video idea:_* Choosing your 2nd Airbrush. Heaps and heaps of 1st airbrush videos, but for ppl like me who want to get bit more into it but not mega into it. Be nice to have a review of a few choice airbrushes in the $100-$150 area.

I use a brush to put it on, I need to try the airbrush! Maybe you can help, I built a Gundam for my son years ago that changed into a Motorcycle. I've been looking for another but don't remember what brand it was or it's name. Ever heard of it before? Thhanks for the great videos!

Great video! Another New Englander here, in CT. I build 1:25 scale autos and sometimes you get some trash on the roof (dust specks). Have you tried wet sanding/polisihing this clear if needed? Thanks!

Thanks for this video. How do you keep your paint booth so clean?

That pledge wax is the truth, used it with alclad and spaz stix chromes.

Man you are the best !

Yea just found out the Pledge Floor Gloss has been discontinued it is available on Ebay and Amazon, for like $70 bucks, I guess I'll go with just a Acrylic gloss, out of a rattle can. this was a post from 2 years ago, no wonder.

Do you recommend this on rc-bodys painted with arcrylic instead of other clear? Looking for something that is durable to nitro and oil. Great video!👍👍👍

What are you using to hold the car? I'm going to do my first car in a couple of days and would like to know what you use to hold them. Great video! 👍👍

hi your the bast . did try this kinds (us art supply . water based acrylic gloss clear top coat ) how to use

How is the new paint booth working out? Any issues or problems with the new unit?

Great info! Love your collection. That PG Zaku is a gem, I really love mine. You mentions something about the milky stuff. I actually don't have a local Walmart (San Francisco) so I got the Quick Shine from Home Depot, which is milky. Have you compared it? Planning on mixing it with some clear pearl for a custom Wing Gundam PG build.

I looked around for this stuff here in Sweden a few weeks ago. The version I found has the same name and "tag lines" on it, "Pledge", "Revive It", "floor gloss" and "Original". But the bottle is white and the content had the same kind of look as Alclad Aqua Gloss (slightly milky). Seems it's not only the names that differ between different places it's being sold. I gave it a quick test but I wasn't a fan of how easily it starts running if you go even barely too thick with it, it's very very touchy. At least in my limited experience.

Could this be panel lined over? If so, will it take an enamel based panel liner or does the clean up remove the pledge? Also, can you matte top coat over it? Does it fade or yellow over time?

Hope it works on Reflective Mirror Chrome as a clear coat

Can you use pledge as a mixing medium for the mica powder???

What do you recommend for some cheap matt finish for models?

Super good solution, your channel is very useful. Are there alternative products available in Europe? Because in France we can't get it and it's not available on Amazon France, nor on Ebay, Aliexpress etc...

nice

Hi, can you tell me if you can sand/wetsand pledge once it cures? If not can you tell me why mine goes on a little lumpy, like orange peel. I'm using #3 needle at about 28-30 psi

Future is great stuff. I just brush paint it on instead of getting out the airbrush. Two coats and my paint is really glossy.