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Normal rattle-can clear should be fine. Don't know about Plastikote but I'd use clear as sold by H*lfords & similar - standard 1k acrylic clear, just cos it's a known quantity to me. Stand the can in warm water for a while - gives a bit better spray pressure. 'Mist' the first coat so's not to flood it with solvent & lacquer - hold the can a bit away and kind of dust it on. After 5 mins put on a thinnish but 'wet' coat on. Another 10 mins or so and another wet coat, that should do it.
Don't go mad with lots of coats or thick wet ones, 1k can crack & crazy-pave then.
Water-based paint, like nursery skool powder-in-water type stuff, will take clearcoats fine. Water-based acrylics (like warhammer and some hobby paints) do as well, but they can dissolve in solvent - the mist coat thing handles that. It's also sometimes called a "gripper" cos the first wet coat holds on better.
If you aren't bothered about the finish being hard, just waterproof, pure beeswax should work. Initially it will change the colour a little but as it dries it should go back to normal. You can normally get it as a 'Brushing Wax' in B&Q or wherever and it looks like hummus - wipe it on thinly, leave it 20 minutes then wipe it off again.
All of them though, do the usual try-on-a-bit-that-you-don't-care-about first thing.