Varnish on Dumas Chris-Craft

[dietcoke]

I have been putting the finishing touches on the triple cc barrelback. I used several coats of WM 105/206 epoxy and have about 4 coats of Epifanes on top of the epoxy. The finish looks great but the Epifanes varnish says it is clear but actually dries amber like. It only is noticable over the white styrene strips. Is there any method to avoid this effect? I'm also building a CC 19ft racer and was thinking of just using the epoxy and clear coat and dumping the varnish all together. Any thoughts or suggestions?
On a side note- don't thin the varnish with denatured alcohol it becomes cloudy. Minieral spirits works much better.

[Rex Reynolds]

"dietcoke" <dietcoke.1tzg4b@rcgroups.com> wrote in message
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> I have been putting the finishing touches on the triple cc barrelback.
> I used several coats of WM 105/206 epoxy and have about 4 coats of
> Epifanes on top of the epoxy. The finish looks great but the Epifanes
> varnish says it is clear but actually dries amber like. It only is
> noticable over the white styrene strips. Is there any method to avoid
> this effect? I'm also building a CC 19ft racer and was thinking of
> just using the epoxy and clear coat and dumping the varnish all
> together. Any thoughts or suggestions?
> On a side note- don't thin the varnish with denatured alcohol it
> becomes cloudy. Minieral spirits works much better.
>
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nature of the beast, all varnish I know of either starts out yellow or does
so as it ages. sunlight only encourages it. as varnish is esentially clear
enamal...you are quite right about mineral spirits.
rex