I also use fabric paint to coat hard foam pencil poppers. I put the tube mylar over the popper body tie down at back over tail. Then pull the front tight and apply the sparkle type of fabric paint. When dry trim the front end of popper with razor blade.
I do not use the puff paint it is mainly use for ants and such. Different product altogether.
At 09:48 AM 1/20/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Many thanks to Tony, Rene, Bill and Jim for their comments about using fabric paint in fly tying. If you've never looked at the racks of fabric paint at at place like Michael's Craft Store and scratched your head and wondered, you ought to...lots of stuff to play with.
Contrasting backs, wing cases and buds, hot spots, shell backs, and yes...eyes would be some of the uses. A friend dips the butt of a feather fiber in this stuff and sticks it to the fly body for legs on a caddis larvae. Loved the ant and lady bug done from puffy paint that Rene showed from his fly collection.
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