<blockquote><img src="images/quistoboxersrecon.jpg" align="right" hspace="10">It s over a year ago that I decided to restore a couple of early Quisto boxers. I got as far as repainting the heads and showed them on here. Now I have at last got around to giving them bodies.
This is not really a restoration, rather a re-utilisation, for I have no idea what they were like originally. I do have a policeman, beadle, parson and Jim Crow in the same style, and they do have hands and bodies. but the boxers were virtually only heads.
It might be of interest that I used acrylic artists' colours for painting. I do not like a high gloss finish - a shiny head loses detail and visibility - so I avoid varnishes. There is a matt acrylic varnish but it doesn't offer a great deal of protection.
What I do use is Super TUFcote from Ripmax. This is sold for coating model aircraft parts to make them fuel resistant. It is actually a re-packaged parquet flooring protective. It is a two part (resin plus activator) material which is available in matt or gloss versions, or the two can be mixed to give an eggshell finish. I find that the matt version is not completely matt and gives adequate sheen. It is touch-dry in 5 minutes and hard in 2 hours.
TUFcote is available from model shops or from the Ripmax website.
This is not a new material - I used it on the set of Punch figures I made over 30 years ago and it does a grand job of protecting the paintwork.</blockquote>