old skool secrets...:)

[hacky08]

heres one that may help...
i have a guy thats been painting since the 60,s ,and hes painted everything.
mostly he,s been into the custom scene.
when he started there wasnt much of a choice of paints to use ,so he and a lot of the other custom painters(in the uk at least)found a system to get perfect colors on the work..
you can thin it with thinners....you can get hundereds,possibly thousands of shades and effects...and its compatible with cellulose and 2k thinners...
by now your thinking !!shut up and tell us....lol
well believe it or not
its nail varnish....yup ordinary ,run of the mill...nail varnish....
what a find!!!!
it also works for pin striping... the advantage being that as with normall pinstripe you stipe over the clear...with this you can pinstripe ,then clear...
hope this helps....
oh and before i forget...it runs sweet through your brush(unlike some expensive alternatives) and its colorfast...

:ybeer1::ybeer1:

[minniemouse]

HaHa!! Like it. It also doesnt re-act with enamel (I used to use both together for sign writing, especially when I wanted some glitter in tiny bit!!)
Enamel, does however, re-act with two pac clear..... so always test a bit first!

[rcarbone]

nail varnish.....????
Do you meen the paint that woman put on there finger nails????

[Sportster_Kid]

Lol. never thought of using fingernail paint, sounds cheap for small projects, cool tip.

[Carlos]

damn, and I've just bought a tin of 1 shot @ £12 for a tin... only doing about 2feet of striping with it too!

[lchavez]

Hey, any you guys know how to paint 60's style freak dots?

[sharonsstudio]

Great tip.. Never thought of putting it through the ab except to do fingernails..
DUH!!!!

[airart1]

my dad turned me on to some ol stuff like that also, but today theres so many different paint, u can do so much with the new stuff..........

[Cult airbrush]

i had the same crazy idea of using nail varnish after I saw my girlfriend's glittering nails...didn't know though if it could be used with 2k clear...great tip

[jdtegart]

I see alot of stuff that my wife buys and i tell her that it would look great on a car she just laughs . But now i know it would work great

[mayhem]

Sweet.

[redanner]

Nail polish? Do you use it for over-all paint jobs?? I guess I'm confused with what you use it for. Also things like does it become fugitive in the sun light??

[Red-Mud]

From what I have been able to find out modelers have been using it for years. That is why I joined this forum to find out more about airbrushing.

[redanner]

From what I have been able to find out modelers have been using it for years. That is why I joined this forum to find out more about airbrushing.

Sounds like a smelly hobby and dangerous to breath! When I was a kid I would get headaches from model airplane glue putting models together, that was before they tamed the glue. Also I lived and breathed auto body shops for over fifteen years. I can't stand the smell when my wife or daughters do their nails. Hope they use good ventilation.

[Red-Mud]

I am not sure what you are alluding to here. Do you have a problem with cyanoacrylate or finger nail polish (which is basically lacquer)?

[redanner]

I am not sure what you are alluding to here. Do you have a problem with cyanoacrylate or finger nail polish (which is basically lacquer)?

Oh! No! I did most of my autobody work in the 1970s & 1980s when lacquer/acrylic lacquer was in bloom! Acrylic enamels with chemical catalyst was also popular. In the summer time you could walk into about any body shop and the tech people wasn't wearing any kind of mask when lacquer was being sprayed. In the late 1980s we were just starting to hear about water bourn paints in development! I guess what I was trying to say was I must have become desensitized to the smell even though I don't think they smell the same. My daughter is a cosmetologist and I don't care for that smell either. But I don't disapprove, spray what works & be safe.

[ARTSPRAYJ4J]

its one of those tricks we all should have thought of LOL ,i can imagine its great for pinstripping especialy if it can be cleared ,the good thing also is that it like oneshot can be wiped off with the apropriate chemicals ,in the case of nailvarnish either acetone or even ethyle acetate IE acetone free nailvarinsh remover ,which could aslo be used to thin it with as well ,BTW ethyle acetate works very well as a reducer for waterbased acrylics

nice tip and thanks for shareing ,its something i will try and also pass on to others


Paul