Re: Rat Salad - 5/8 paint testing
So I eventually got the frame mostly down to bare metal, even that nasty stripper didnt want to take off the black base coat so I spent about 4 hours with the wire wheel and sandpaper getting it to this point. I still need to do some more sanding before the primer, but that will come later.
coolest custom floor jack handle ever.
So what I wanted to do for the paint was something I tried a couple years ago painting model cars. At the time I had access to an airbrush and thinned down some nail polish with acetone and shot it. It worked surprisingly good, and is a reasonably cheap way to get pearls and flakes. For this I'm using the cheapo wal-mart "wet-n-wild" nail polish, pearl green with some green flake mixed 50/50 with some clear with big gold flakes in. Thined down to be sprayable with acetone. Shot out of a $8 disposable aresol spray thingie.
I tried it in a spot test over silver and black, and was unimpressed with either. I didnt take pics, but now I'm thinking I just didnt put on a thick enough coat for what I want my end result to be. in these pics, I used about a bottle of nail polish to coat my jack handle, with yellow rustoleum as a base. the yellow didn't lay down super nice because I did no prep work before shooting it, and had a couple wrinkles. that was yesterday, today I shot the nail polish mixture over it which seemed to wrinkle a ton, but not along the whole length of the handle. therefore I'm thinking it was more a prep issue than an incompatibility issue. I had no trouble shooting over the silver and black, but i did shoot a thin layer of clear over that test before I shot the nail polish. I'm not dead set on the yellow base coat, and I'm thinking the silver would work better with enough coats of the nail polish. What do you guys think? Is the yellow working out?
In the sun
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in the shade
close up on the wrinkling
