As I'm helping a fellow forumite with getting his guitar Shell Pink - that is what I was aiming at today.
Ingredients:
- Nitro base laquer - a syrup thick clear nitro that you mix colours or clear from. I get it from a wood work supplier.
- Nitro thinner - can be bought at some paint stores (at least around here). I get it cheaper from same place as nitro base above.
- Titanium white pigment powder. Can be bought at hobby and paint stores. They have also black, red, green earth colours etc.
- Red and amber nitro (anillin) tint - can be bought from stewmac. I get mine from http://www.gnu.se" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Same as used to tint clear for sunbursts.
I started with solving the white pigment in thinner - then mixing it 6 to 4 with nitro base laquer. Now I had something very similar to OLY - maybe just a drop of amber and it will work as OLY.
Next was to mix the white laquer with red amd amber tints to get the right Shell Pink hue. I did this by having picture references, plus adding the tints little by little and making samples along the way.
The Ingredients:
The colour samples:
When I was satisfied I sprayed the JM in question.
Warm light:
Cold light:
With a white (not mint) Jag guard as reference:
I will spray second layer tomorrow or on tuesday, but I think it looks really promising!
In the future I'll try some other opaque custom colours - I need to get some green and blue tint to make sonic, daphne, surf and seafoam, plus I'll get some red and black pigment powder as well for making some non pastel ones too.
/J
yeah that looks real good. nice job.
