I'm finally getting around to clearcoating some of the minis I have painted as the kiddos are now old enough that I'm willing to let them touch my metal minis...well, most of them. No one touches the Vulture Mk.IV but me..I've glued those damn arms back on enough already! Anyway, I've been using a matte clearcoat which is generally working well except that it is kilking all the 'sparkle' in any metallic paints I've used. I am not really good enough to do NMM in a way I'm happy with, so I like using metallic paints for little details here and there, and in some schemes as a base color. Unfortunately, the gold and silver just sort of turn into yellow and grey once I clearcoat them!
I'm not really sure what I can do about this. I'm hesitant to use a satin clearcoat, and I'm worried that if I try to add some more metallic paint on top of the clearcoat, it's going to get too thick or look weird. Any suggestions about how I can keep my metallics from turning into flat colors while still protecting the paint job?