Paint that "cracks" like dry lake bed?

[LDO]

Around 30 years ago, I read about this in a book on airbrushing. Spray it over a contrasting color and it will "crack", showing the other color in the cracks. Does such a thing still exist? That might look cool as part of a '70s custom paint job.

[Draggon]

It was a hot thing in the 70's show car craze. I think ( key word THINK ) its layering with different speed reducers, so that the top coat dries before the basecoat. I used to know how it was done and surprised by its simplicity. If I remember, i'll let you know. In the meantime ck this out:

 

Edited September 19, 2015 by Draggon

[Ace-Garageguy]

Craft stores have "antiqiung" kits for furniture that have a 2 specially formulated coats of material that take advantage, in a controlled way, of the cracking that occurs when normally incompatible materials are used together. Similar effects can be achieved using other materials.

Here are several youtube videos of different techniques, effects and processes...          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jziYcZrWhoY

[Yenkocamaro]

That reminds me, of some Psychedelic paint jobs modelers did back in the day. They took a fair sized bowl, filled it with water, dunked the model in it,(on a coat hanger), sprayed paint in different colors on the water, then pulled the model up through the paint, presto! Psychedelic paint job. I think it might have been in an old issue of Car Model Mag.

 

 

Cheers,

Lance 

[Helper Monkey]

That reminds me, of some Psychedelic paint jobs modelers did back in the day. They took a fair sized bowl, filled it with water, dunked the model in it,(on a coat hanger), sprayed paint in different colors on the water, then pulled the model up through the paint, presto! Psychedelic paint job. I think it might have been in an old issue of Car Model Mag.

 

 

Cheers,

Lance 

Sounds like paper marbling to me. Never thought of marbling to do a model. 

Hummm ideas are turning in my head. 

[LDO]

Thanks for the replies. Now that I see it, I think the effect is a bit much for models. Possibly as an element of something in 1/8 scale or bigger. I think it would be awesome if there were a '70s van in 1/8 scale. That would be a great canvas for a wild paint job.

I picked up one of these from a neighbor's garage sale, with the idea of a crazy paint job:

It's an RV for "Bratz" dolls. A buddy came over with his 5 year old daughter. She saw it in the garage and started playing with it. She started crying when it was time to put it up. Well, gee, she obviously liked it more than I did. It's hers now. Two years later, my buddy said she still plays with it just about every day. 

Edited September 21, 2015 by LDO

[espo]

Years ago I read where someone would paint a layer of enamel paint and then lacquer paint. The theory was that the lacquer would dry faster than the enamel and that would cause the cracking effect. I would try it on a couple of spoons first.