VMS Oil Expert Gloss – Gloss Medium for Oil Paints
VMS Oil Expert Gloss is a specialist medium designed to give oil paints an enamel-like gloss finish while improving their curing time. Part of the VMS Oil Expert range, it allows modellers to retain the working characteristics of oil paints while producing a richer, shinier finish.
Traditional oil paints can take considerable time to cure and often dry with a matt appearance. Oil Expert Gloss addresses both issues, providing additional shine and a curing period of approximately 24-48 hours, depending on the paint mixture.
The medium is compatible with oil paints from all manufacturers and is particularly useful when a glossy finish is required for painting or scale modelling effects.
Enamel-Like Gloss and Richer Colours
Oil Expert Gloss changes the appearance of oil paints by introducing a glossy, enamel-like finish. It also deepens the original paint shade through what VMS describes as the “wet stone” effect.
This increased colour depth is a characteristic of the gloss medium rather than a change to the paint’s underlying colour. It allows modellers to create richer-looking painted surfaces while retaining the flexibility of working with oil paints.
How to Mix VMS Oil Expert Gloss
For the gloss medium, VMS recommends a mixture containing 5-50% oil paint, with the remaining 50-95% made up of Oil Expert Gloss.
Maintaining the correct proportion of medium is important for preserving the glossy finish and achieving the intended curing time.
- Use 5-50% oil paint in the mixture.
- Make up the remaining proportion with Oil Expert Gloss.
- Apply the mixture using a brush.
- Allow approximately 24-48 hours for the working and curing process.
- Test the proportions to establish the preferred finish for the oil paint being used.
Adding too much oil paint can reduce the gloss effect or extend the drying time. Because different oil paints behave differently, experimenting with the mixing ratio helps establish the balance between colour strength, shine and curing time.
Compatible Paints and Base Coats
VMS Oil Expert Gloss can be combined with oil paints of all brands. It can also be used over acrylic base coats and enamel base coats from Humbrol, Revell and Model Master.
Important: Tamiya enamel base coats are incompatible with VMS Oil Expert Gloss and must not be used as the underlying enamel finish.
Product Details
- Gloss medium for oil paints.
- Creates an enamel-like glossy finish.
- Deepens colours through the wet stone effect.
- Approximate 24-48 hour working and curing period.
- Recommended application technique: brush.
- Compatible with oil paints from all brands.
- Supplied in a 50ml dropper bottle.
- Manufacturer reference: AX11G.
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