The really nasty stuff that is really good is OneShot. It's nasty and it's good because it is lead based. Art stores have it as "sign paint". I used robinsegg blue as a lug liner and fender pinstriping on a restoration.
On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 4:44:12 PM UTC-8, Wayne Naha wrote: > > iamkeith, what kind paint did you use? I want to do the same kind of > detailing. Half tempted to use fingernail polish, but you seem to have > cracked the code here. > > On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 6:52:09 PM UTC-5, iamkeith wrote: >> >> >> On Thursday, November 5, 2015 at 1:00:35 PM UTC-7, Frederick wrote: >>> >>> On my computer screen, the grey looks really nice. It has more of a >>> bluish tint than the photos on the Riv site. >>> >> >> The gray is nice. Depending on the light, it has a basic pewter color >> to it, just like the prototype images, or a blueish or a purplish tint >> which make it appear darker in photographs than it really is. A huge >> shout-out to Vince, who managed to wrangle one up for me after I decided >> that I didn't want the blue I'd had on order. Any of the three final >> colors would be nice enough to make me happy, but I'm very satisfied with >> this one. >> >> These are probably all the images you'll get out of me for a while. It's >> snowed every day for more than a week here, so I'm in no hurry to get it >> built up before May. In the meantime, FIRST THINGS FIRST: I just filled >> in the missing windows on the frame! >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y9tgOev2mNI/VjvprMui-GI/AAAAAAAAALc/c0ZsBUXj80c/s1600/Windows.jpg> >> >> >> As you may have noticed in photos from others, the fabricator >> accidentally put the lower napkin rings on backwards. "EST 1994" should >> have been facing forward. So I just filled the lettering on the top one >> for now. >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YjfVAi0DNOo/VjvpIKbbIHI/AAAAAAAAALM/awZf_ZKz63k/s1600/NapkinRingF.jpg> >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wHNkHRTYoOw/VjvpPFRsdDI/AAAAAAAAALU/4L3_VMl6bE4/s1600/NapkinRingR.jpg> >> >> >> Also, one quick heads up to others: Check the curvature of the headbadge >> *before* you put it on. Mine wasn't curved quite enough, so it's a bit >> tricky trying to the the edges to lay down. I think it would have been >> easier to flatten out, if it had *too much* curve. I'm half tempted to >> fill the low parts of the headbadge with creme too, just for another >> highlight. We don't have manhole covers where I live anyway, so the >> reference will be lost on most people. >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lI1rB1sNAUU/Vjvo_qiW1SI/AAAAAAAAALE/qpHZ7_CrBFw/s1600/Headbadge.jpg> >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
