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Gamemaster II paint-along

Gorgeous bow. Nice work!

Be careful with that acetone. I’ve known several life long artisans who died from pulmonary fibrosis because of their secret love affairs with acetone and other solvents - it’s particularly nasty in enclosed spaces. If you can smell and taste it, it’s doing the same thing to your lungs as it is to the camo paint you’re removing.
 
Jammintree said:
Gorgeous bow. Nice work!

Be careful with that acetone. I’ve known several life long artisans who died from pulmonary fibrosis because of their secret love affairs with acetone and other solvents - it’s particularly nasty in enclosed spaces. If you can smell and taste it, it’s doing the same thing to your lungs as it is to the camo paint you’re removing.
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And make sure you wear protective gloves as acetone will absorb through the skin very quickly.
 
Ok. Finally got it done yesterday after work. It was 62 degrees out. Took 2 dips to achieve what I'm deeming as acceptable results. The first attempts came out with minimal coverage on the belly of the limbs leaving a lot of grey primer showing.
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The hot yellow paint was absolute garbage and flaked off immediately after drying. My wife suggested lightly sanding the first coat and going for another so that's what we did. Ended up "sanding" them with only an old t-shirt. We used no yellow in the second dip because of the poor performance prior.

The second dip came out much more uniform as far as colors are concerned. We ended up dipping both the limbs in the same batch of paint - not dipping, wiping water away, pulling the limb out, reapplying new paint and then dipping the other limb as we had done the first time. Also, since there was really no coverage on the belly of the limbs, I pulled the limbs back up through the paints each time during the second coat instead of wiping away the water first. This allowed the bellies to get some paint on them as well (sorry I forgot to take pictures of that).
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Not wanting to leave good enough alone, I clear coated the limbs front and back with three layers of matte clear coat. THAT made the colors pop drastically. Glad I clear coated them!
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Started this post by saying that I achieved what I'm calling acceptable results. Going in, I had this idea in my mind that the process of hydro dipping would end with airbrush-like results. That expectation was waaaaay out to lunch. The last video I watched before attempting it myself (in the yard with fluorescent marker/sign quality spray paints) was a regular Joe dipping a guitar body. He explained that no one ever includes up-close pictures of their amateur dips. Most videos just end with a high five or smiling faces. Because of this, he showed the guitar body up close and all the globby imperfections were on display. I thought "Man. Sucks for that guy. Good thing mine isn't going to turn out like that. Mine is going to look like it was airbrushed!" Welp...
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I was not pleased with the results initially. However, after thinking about it and throttling my expectations, now I'm really happy with how it turned out. I love the gloppyness!
 
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