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Dito Snake on Tom Waits

To All: Recently I have seen more chatter about Sign Painters One Shot used as a alternative to regular modeling enamels, I have some 40 plus years experience with these products and they are a great alternative to the regular enamel modeling paints. I have used these products on models and plastic sign blanks (corplas a styrene sign blank material) with great results. Much of what I will post here is information that has been passed on to me by many great teachers and mentors over the years, with that said every bit of information I share about these products I have tried and I would say I have had a 98.% success rate. A little History first, When I first started lettering and pinstriping in 1972 their where several companies that manufactured what was often called bulletin colors and were made for painting signage on everything, Buildings, Vehicles, etc, this was before the advent of the vinyl lettering that started in the early 80s. Kenith Howard (AKA Von Dutch) who started the pinstriping craze in So Cal In the 50s Used Bulletin colors for striping as his father was a sign wrighter and Dutch had a able supply of paint to choose from. Their are only a few companies that still manufacture any type of enamel lettering and pinstriping paint and One Shot would be the most recognizable and available as a complete paint system. I thought it was prudent to give a little history to get to where we are going on the tips and tricks of using this product One Shot Comes in 46 colors which in that palette are Silver, Gold, And Copper all colors can be intermixed without any problems they are 100% compatible, they also have 10 Pearlescent colors and 8 Fluorescent colors, a tinting White a tinting Black and a Clear Coat. All 100% Compatible. One Shot brand is a Oil Based Enamel They also have their own line of reducers Fast/Med/Slow a Hardener additive and a Flatting paste. Tip #1) Very economical! You can purchase a 4 oz can for between $7.45 to $12.99 which when thinned to spray can yield 8 to 12 oz. For brushing use straight out of the can with a touch of thinner.(see tip #6) Tip #2) You do not have to use their reducers! Mineral Spirits Or Turpentine work fine. Tip #3) If you want to add a hardener to the paint you do not have to use their brand, Even though it is Oil Based in composition I have used PPG and HOK urethane hardeners with no adverse reaction. Tip #4) You can reduce this product for spraying with lacquer thinner for faster drying times with no adverse effects. I know the story...... enamels and lacquers don't mix and that is true however, in this case this product breaks the rules You know all the fades and cartoons etc on the lettering of all of the 1:1 Revell Funnies and Top Fuel cars of the 70s these were all done in a process called wet on wet. The main copy was all hand lettered with straight One Shot and the fades were done with One Shot thinned with lacquer thinner. I know this to be a fact as I have become friends with many of the people who originally painted these cars back in the day. I worshiped and read about these guys in all the magazines and tried to emulate them at any chance I got. Through the Pinhead and Letterhead Movement that started in the 90s I have attended many charitable events and panel Jams since 1998 and have pushed paint around with some of these greats, In my world these people are like Rock Stars! The stories I have heard about the hey day of custom painting the greatest cars of all time makes my head spin! Tip #5) Use a good brush when applying this product, not modeling stumps. Purchase some good lettering Quills like a Mack 179 brown, a Mack 189 grey or a French Masters Series 3173. Sizes # 0 & 1 will work great for most hand brushed parts if you want to get brushes in smaller sizes you can trim the 0s and 1s or purchase liner brushes as they come in smaller sizes made by the same manufactures. These brushes are made of squirrel hair, the browns are softer than the greys and typically are easier to control and leave a smoother finish. Either brush with this paint should flow out dead flat Tip #6) Palette the paint into the brush! Meaning: Dip the brush in the paint and stoke it back and forth on a shiny magazine page, fully load the brush to the shape you want, all the hairs of the brush should be wet, if you overload the brush stroke it off to a portion of the palette that has no paint to get the consistency and shape of the brush you desire. If the brush starts to drag or pull, litely dip your brush into a small container of clean thinner and work that into the paint to get the consistency you want. Repeat this process as you paint. Tip #7) Triple clean your brush! Meaning: Have 3 containers with clean thinner in them ( I use Shot glasses ) rinse in # 1,2 & 3 gently pulling any of the paint from the ferrule of the brush, by the time you get to the # 3 container the brush should be free from paint. Tip #8) Oil the clean brush with a good brush oil, 3 & 1, Linseed oil, (any non detergent oil) shape it and lay it flat. When you go to use the brush again clean the oil out of the brush with clean thinner. Now I know some of you are thinking fish eyes! One Shot is a oil based product, any trace amount of oil that could remain in a cleaned brush is compatible with the paint, no fish eyes! In closing this paint typically dries in 4 to 6 hours with maybe a slight tack. 12 to 24 hours no sticky, no finger prints and it can be waxed after 24 hours although I prefer a paint sealer that will breath. After 7 to 10 days you can scuff and buff to a great shine. The only limit you have with this product in terms of colors and the sheen you want is your imagination. Always test and practice before you commit. I know I'm most likely forgetting something! If I think of anything of more use I will edit. It is my hope you find this interesting and helpful! JW "RASS"

Rules are like directions, I don't usually don't read them until it's to late. D'oh

Pete, Thanks for sharing the video! Some interesting techniques. It was nice to see him use the 3M tape like I had mentioned! I also agree with his use of future! A alternative to BMF is clear or frosted Transfer Tape made for the vinyl sign industry, very thin, easy to burnish, no residue. Again Great Stuff!! jwrass

What's rule # 1 ?

#4) Everybody's Everything / Santana

Five to end the weekend! Packers Win NFC North!!!!Bye Week, Rodgers Gets A Week To Heal! Super Bowl Bound!!!! 1) Chicago Green, Takin' 'Bout Black Lebanese A Dirty Room And A Silver Coke Spoon Give Me My Release, Come On 2) Come Over Here I Want To Bite And Kiss You 3) How Can You Say You're Responsible? What Does It Have to do with me 4) Ohh It's A Killer Machine It's Got Everything Like Driving Power, Big Fat Tires, Everything 5) Stay The Night But Keep It Undercover I Just Want To Use Your Love Tonight

Mike, 1,3,5 ding ding! # 2 right band wrong title. Hint # 4 Band Played at Wookstock and this song was one that was performed in the Documentary

Brian, Ace gives a great tip! 70% isopropyl alcohol the other 30% is clean water ( 70% alcohol 30% water) Not only does this act as a cleaner it kills static on the plastic from rubbing on it. This is how I would approach a recoat situation: 1) Wipe the surface clean with 70/30 mix. 2) Scuff the surface lightly with a grey scuff pad. 3) Wipe surface again with the 70/30 mix. 4) Tack surface, paint.

Genre 60s, 70s Rock 1) Laughing In The Playground Gets No Kicks From Little Boys 2) I Know What It Means To Be Alone I Sure Do Wish I Was at Home 3) Good Luck Had Just Stung To The Race Track I Did Go 4) You Can Understand Everything To Share Let Your Spirits Dance Brothers Everywhere 5) Life Is Funny Skies are sunny Bees make Honey

For who ever gives a rip! Answers to posts. Pg 138, #2) Too Love Somebody/Bee Gees. Pg 139, #8) Every time I think of you/ Babys ( even gave the title out in the first line) # 9) Emotion In Motion/Cars. #10) Ain't nobody/ Chaka Khan. #3) Riot In Cell Block # 9/ Johnny Winter. #4 Blinded By Love/ Johnny Winter. Pg 139 Red Meat/ Jo Jo Gunne.

King of pain. Sting/Police

It's going to be tough to get a really good looking Low Rider paint job without a airbrush! I use One Shot on a regular basis and it is manufactured for Sign Painting and Pinstriping, However it can be used on models and works quite well! If you attempt to do Low Rider paint with a combo of hand brushing and rattle can it could be done. One Shot makes a line of pearl colors that are quite transparent, the solid colors can be made more transparent with a product in their line called tinting clear. The key with getting a flat smooth finish with One Shot is using a good brush, a grey or brown squirrel hair quill works the best, a nice soft taklon works well to. With different brush techniques you can get nice shades and shadows. Give it a whack if you don't like it you can through it in the pond. jwrass

1,5 & 2 Correct! Pretty good songs! They are iconic! 3) Has been done my various bands, classic blues 4) Written and recorded by one of the best blues guitar players ever! Known for running the steel slide up and down the neck like no other!

In my opinion if you are using Tamiya tape you are wasting your $$$$$ The amount of tape you get the price you pay is almost criminal! Their are many tapes that I use on a regular basis as a 1:1 custom painter that are far superior and come in a vast range of sizes. Cruise on over to Coast Airbrush they have many to choose from. I use the following 3M Lite Green (the plastic type not the crepe type) Don't care for the blue 3M plastic tape. Their are a few tapes that have hit the scene in the last couple of years and they are fantastic!!! FBS tapes, V tape and Vandemon tape. No bleed through, no tape residue, no tape tracking, and as flexible as a 15 year old gymnast!!! Check it out.. jwrass

1) Dawn lite smiles on your leaving my contentment I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines 2) I done the ranchers daughter and I sure did hurt his pride 3) Scarface Jones said "It's too late to quit" Pass the dynamite cause the fuse is lit 4) Never meant to hurt never meant to harm never meant to get involved 5) You know I'd love to love you and above you there's no other

As a professional artist myself I have a CO2 set up that I haven't used in at least ten years when I'm a road warrior. With the advent of the smaller Pancake compressors there is no need. A investment in a tank regulator etc will cost in the neighborhood of $200-$300 for a good setup then you have the hassle of refilling the tank at typically a welding gas supply house. It's clean dry air so you don't need moisture/oil separator however you still need the regulator and fittings. With the pancakes ( trim nailers would be a big box nomenclature) if you 110/120 volts you can make air!

Bruce, Ding Ding!!!! You win!!! Artist correct! Too Late to turn back now.

# 6 is correct and done in the sixties by Ben E King I love all songs! if you have seen any of my past posts you will see I cover all genres of music (except country) Mostly a rocker from the 70s and was in a few great bands. Just trying to through some stuff out there that people have to think about. As the ad says " who doesn't love love"

Who ever gets this one without cheating is a true 70s music freak. Cuz'in out for tacos Sending out for pizza I'll take a half pound of ground round There's a hundred in the freezer

Mike, All of the pancakes I have seen have a storage tank for air so that the compressor does not have to run continually, I have a Rollaire and I can airbrush for 2-10 minutes before the compressor cycles to recharge the storage tank ( the more air I use the more the compressor runs) Chicago Airbrush is a good source!!! I purchase most of my equipment from Coast Airbrush as I know the owner well. I use my airbrushes that pay the bills on my models vs buying a airbrush for modeling. I have siphon and gravity feed, for years you could only buy siphon types and I like them and they still serve me well however nothing beats the detail you can get with a gravity feed brush, I can spray great detail with as little as 5psi you can't do that with a siphon feed with much success. You can pretty much get any type of fittings you need to hook up any compressor to any airbrush. You most likely will have to purchase a oil/water separator for any compressor unless you can find a package deal. Many choices out there! I own every brand out there including Sata, Binks, Blue Point, For my money it's Iwata all the way!!!! One thing I would recommend is don't be stingy, buy something that will over perform vs a under performer, It will save you money in the long run!! Been there done that!!! Cheers jwrass

Great Job Music Peoples!!!!1,3,4,5 done and correct # 2 still out there!!!! Boz Still Rocks!!!!!! Here's a few more!!!! 6) If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall 7) I found myself wanting her at least ten times a day 8) Everytime I think of you it always turns out good 9) I'd hold on to you until the mountains crumble flat 10) I look in your eyes and I can see We've loved so dangerously

3 & 5 That is correct sir!

Mike, I have been using airbrushes for 50+ years, beginning with modeling as a child to Custom Paint during the van craze of the 1970s and am still active in 1:1 Custom Paint (see my profile) I have many airbrushes by many manufactures, in the last ten years I have mostly used Iwata and they are a great quality brush. I have had the opportunity to try just about every brand out there as I try to attend at least One Airbrush Action Magazines Getaways per year. I really like the trend of some of the Medium/Higher end airbrushes going to a spray gun type trigger. I have used the top push/pull trigger for years because that's all they had to offer, with the advent of the pistol type trigger I am able to get better control, I spend more time with production guns in my hand and changing over from pistol grip to top trigger at times was a challenge due to muscle memory, I still use my top trigger airbrushe's for rough in but use trigger types for the fine detail now. I would recommend getting a higher end brush from the get go, you want performance right out of the gate, the right tools are truly a investment. I have a large compressor in the shop that supplies clean dry air to each hose we have. If I have to airbrush offsite I use a construction type pancake compressor with a oil/moisture trap, however they are noisy. Silentaire Air makes several nice compressors and I hope to add one to my arsenal at some point due to the noise of the pancake. In my opinion you get what you pay for! I have Airbrushes that are 40-50 years old that look like new! A clean Airbrush is a happy Airbrush!! Hope this helps! Jwrass

1) Falling in love was the last thing I had on my mind 2) In my brain I see your face again I know my frame of mind 3) I got arms enough to hold you and keep you by my side 4) They might fade and turn to stone Let's get crazy all alone 5) I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes