AK Interactive 3G Transparent Colors Set – 6 Clear Acrylic Paints for Tinting Windows, Lenses, Canopies, and Metallic Surfaces
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Transparent by Design, Not Just Thinned Down – These are not standard paints diluted to transparency. The Clear series is formulated from the ground up to be fully transparent while retaining the adhesion, self-leveling, and surface grip of the 3rd Generation acrylic range. The color tints the surface underneath without obscuring it.
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Six Colors for Every Clear Part on a Kit – Clear Red and Clear Orange for tail lights, brake lights, and indicator lenses. Clear Blue and Clear Green for navigation lights and instrument panels. Clear Smoke for tinted windshields, exhaust-stained canopies, and smoked glass. Clear Yellow for taxi lights, headlamp lenses, and signal covers.
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Tint Metallic Finishes Without Repainting – Applied over cured metallic or chrome surfaces, these paints shift the metal's color while preserving the reflective finish underneath. This is how you produce tinted gold from silver, candy-coat effects on automotive builds, or heat-discolored exhaust manifolds.
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Universal Compatibility Across Paint Types – These can be applied directly over acrylics, enamels, lacquers, and metallic finishes without reacting, softening, or damaging the underlying coat. No intermediate varnish layer required before application.
📝 Product Description
Every scale model with clear parts — aircraft canopies, car windshields, headlight lenses, navigation lights, signal covers — eventually needs color applied to a transparent surface. Standard opaque paint kills the transparency. Thinning standard paint with water or medium produces inconsistent, splotchy results because the formula was never designed to work that way. The AK Interactive 3rd Generation Transparent Colors Set (AK11758) solves this with six paints engineered to be completely transparent while still behaving like proper acrylics: they grip the surface, self-level, and build up evenly in layers without pooling or streaking.
The applications go well beyond clear parts. Over a polished metallic base coat, Clear Red or Clear Orange produces a candy-coat effect used on custom automotive builds and Gunpla kits. Clear Smoke over bare metal replicates heat discoloration on exhaust stacks, gun barrels, and engine manifolds. Over already-painted surfaces, any of these six colors functions as a precise color-shift glaze — warmer, cooler, greener, more orange — without requiring you to repaint the entire area. Each coat adds more color density, so you control the intensity by the number of passes rather than by thinning ratio.
💡 How to Use
Shake each bottle thoroughly before use. For clear parts like canopies and lenses, apply directly to the transparent plastic in thin, even coats — the paint tints the part while preserving its see-through quality. Build up intensity with additional passes rather than applying one heavy coat, which risks pooling in corners. For metallic tinting, ensure the metallic base coat is fully cured before applying the clear color on top. For glazing over painted surfaces, apply in a single thin pass and allow it to dry before deciding if a second coat is needed — overcorrection is harder to fix with transparents than with opaques.
📐 Specifications
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Brand: AK Interactive
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Model Number: AK11758
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UPC: 8435568326934
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Paint Type: 3rd Generation Acrylic (3GA) – Clear Series
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Formula: Water-Based Acrylic, Fully Transparent
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Finish: Gloss
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Set Includes: 6x 17ml Dropper Bottles
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Colors Included: AK11213 Clear Red, AK11214 Clear Blue, AK11215 Clear Smoke, AK11216 Clear Green, AK11217 Clear Yellow, AK11218 Clear Orange
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Compatible Over: Acrylics, Enamels, Lacquers, and Metallic Finishes
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Non-Toxic: Yes
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Country of Origin: Spain
