The three contenders for the glow paint. The first one is Rust-oleum. It had a reasonably nice glow, but I was worried how it would react over top of the acrylic paint I was using as the base coat. The second was an acrylic paint from Craft Smart Which I bought from Michaels. It went on fairly smoothly, but the glow was insufficient. My ultimate solution was green glow in the dark paint from Techno Glow. it’s extremely viscous, and you don’t wanna mix this stuff with enamel thinner… That makes it has the consistency of pancake batter! It thins well with acrylic thinner. You can see from the rest of the shots how well it glows.
The final paint job in the dark! I wanted to catch this in my work space which is now messy with glowing paint! This is the level of glow almost a minute after charging them for something like two seconds. I told you that stuff was good.
The thought was that I would build the Enterprise and then airbrush it with glow-in-the-dark paint. As usual, things got a little more complicated than that! The paint job probably took six sessions. The glow-in-the-dark paint I selected was fantastic, but to gloopy to spra. In fact, I ruined airbrush nozzle using it. So I tried a variety of different techniques: fingerpainting, then the layer of sponge painting, followed by a layer of detailing, using a thread dipped in paint. I sanded it in between each coat Because otherwise, it just looked too rough.
