Great info here... a lot of what i was looking for.
I bought one of the $60 kits from Lowes a few weeks back which includes both gravity fed and siphon guns. A friend of mine (who is also working on his first build) recommended the Lowes gravity gun. This gun, which can also be bought individually for around $37, has a swivel on the hopper/cup base so if you need to get in at an awkward angle, you can change the angle of the hopper to maintain a constant feed.
That same friend has convinced me to give the Fire-Glo (Cherry Sunburst) finish a try on my Mickenbacker 4005 build. If it turns out to be a disaster then at least I can go over it with the originally planned Jet-Glo (Gloss Black) finish.
I'm intending to use the Target waterbased acrylic with ColorTone stains as sold by StewMac here in the US
I figure I should be laying down 2-3 clear base coats before I start to introduce the liquid stain into the mix? But then as I build up the deeper red around the edges and no red in the centre, there will be more layers of paint around the outside. I believe that burn in between layers is pretty good with this stuff so the difference in layering between edge and center may not be too much of a problem...? Finally, once the desired "burst" has been achieved, another round of clearcoats to protect...?
Any advice from the more experienced would be gratefully recieved.
I bought one of the $60 kits from Lowes a few weeks back which includes both gravity fed and siphon guns. A friend of mine (who is also working on his first build) recommended the Lowes gravity gun. This gun, which can also be bought individually for around $37, has a swivel on the hopper/cup base so if you need to get in at an awkward angle, you can change the angle of the hopper to maintain a constant feed.
That same friend has convinced me to give the Fire-Glo (Cherry Sunburst) finish a try on my Mickenbacker 4005 build. If it turns out to be a disaster then at least I can go over it with the originally planned Jet-Glo (Gloss Black) finish.
I'm intending to use the Target waterbased acrylic with ColorTone stains as sold by StewMac here in the US
I figure I should be laying down 2-3 clear base coats before I start to introduce the liquid stain into the mix? But then as I build up the deeper red around the edges and no red in the centre, there will be more layers of paint around the outside. I believe that burn in between layers is pretty good with this stuff so the difference in layering between edge and center may not be too much of a problem...? Finally, once the desired "burst" has been achieved, another round of clearcoats to protect...?
Any advice from the more experienced would be gratefully recieved.
