Question About Dying

[Chief31794]

Thanks again for everybody's help. I tooled everything in and then used the Cova colors to carefully paint in the shamrocks and the lettering. Gave them a couple of coats with the Cova colors. Let that dry for 24 hours and then went over the Cova color with Super Sheen. Waited 24 hours and gave it another coat of Super Sheen.

Then started the USMC black with a tiny brush around the tooling, changing to a dauber once I was safely away from the Cova color. (Huge difference between the USMC black and the Tandy black by the way. Thanks for that tip!) Tonight I came home and buffed out the USMC black and burnished the edges using beeswax and the burnisher on my Dremel. During buffing the Cova white picked up a bunch of the black to the point it looked bad. So now I'm repainting the white color.

I'm wondering why it did that? Did I miss a step or was there something else I should have done? My plan now is to recoat the white before covering the whole thing with Super Sheen.

Dennis,

I don't have any confidence in Super Sheen as a resist for spirit dyes. I use Clear Lac and after 8 hours or so of drying time, nothing penetrates it that I've found. One note though, I have had a lot of trouble using Clear Lac on USMC Black, it works great on other spirit dyes, but regardless of how long it has dried and been buffed, Clear Lac seems to "melt" the USMC Black. I use Tan Kote (50/50 with Distilled Water) on USMC Black and it works great. I don't use Tan Kote as a resist though, maybe someone else can chime in on that. Any time you try a new product, test it on scrap first. Hope that helps,

Chief

[Dennis Oakley]

Well, for better or worse it's done. Just posted the finished product in the Show Off forum.