I've started to thin out some of my irisawa V-color paints, and I noticed that the flourescent paints seem a bit thicker than the opaque paints straight out of the bottles.

I've heard that the paints should be thinned down to the consistency of skim milk, but I was just curious how many coats of the thinned paints does it usually take to provide a nice solid color?

I'm gonna experiment, but I thought it might be a good question to ask so I could save some paint.

Airbrushing flourescent takes many coats if you want to make a whole figure solid flourescent color.
Especially when applying it on a darker color. This is why you usually see it on light, or glow figures.

But if it's not thinned enough, you get webs. I'm sure you've seen that.


If the figure base is dark, sometimes it's best to paint some white base first.

Another trick, if you do get webs due to maybe a mixing mistake, airbrush some thinner over the figure when done. It disolves them.

ooh, the dreaded webs. i've only had that trouble with the flourescents.

Ahhh... thanks! I'll be doing some tests once my "test dummies" arrive.

Where is the best place to find irisawa V-color paints? PLEASE HELP!!

Now in an image like this, did he:

a) spray the figure with silver and apply clear colors over the silver, or
b) mix metallic colors and spray them on separately?

^...that is nuts!!...where did you get that...or the pic at least?



BRD

Wow what a1 great colorway !!!

I would say mixed as they look like the color was clearly uniform in metalic.

I think if it where oversparyed it would loose some of the metalics.

It's best (and easy) to just mix colors with silver. That's how this was probably done.

clear color, or opaque color? I figure clear is the more obvious answer, but I just want to be sure.

Silver with regular opaque color, and don't forget the thinner.

Yow! I did some of the first paint thinning tonight, and did some tests, and you REALLY have to thin it down a LOT. I was amazed at how watery it looked and it still produced webs...

Oh, and I was wearing my filtered gasmask when I was mixing and thinning and testing and cleaning, and when my wife walked into the garage, she was like "You gotta open the garage door and the windows". I guess my gasmask works pretty well - I couldn't smell a thing.

It's odorless, which one is your wife?

Wheeeeee!!!