fabric paints -RE: [GZG] Hex cloth

I don't know of other people's experiences, but interior household latex
paint sticks incredibly well to fabric.  I have been painting the house
recently and have paint splotches on my clothes that are intact through
4 washings. I don't know if household paint will fit through an
airbrush, but the regular sprayer I'm using will cover a 4x8 in a couple
of minutes and use less than a pint of paint, including priming.

Also if house paint is useful, you can always get it in whatever color
your heart desires and are not limited to stock colors as you might be
with spray or airbrush paints.

--Binhan

-----Original Message-----
From: gzg-l-bounces@lists.csua.berkeley.edu
[mailto:gzg-l-bounces@lists.csua.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas
Barclay
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 3:09 PM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: [GZG] Hex cloth

Tony, 

Could you have used the smaller template from Litko to produce a larger
one? (ie using a
big sheet of styrene or lexan or something)? If you got a sheet that was
4x4 or 4x6 in
'active area', then you'd only need two passes to make a full hexmat. 

The part that boggles me, and you may have looked into this, is that
I've been looking at
airbrush fabric paints. All seem to imply heat-setting at about 140 C.
The problem is they
want you to heat set evenly all at once. How do you heat set an 8x4 or
8x6 mat with a
household iron? (Answer: Good luck!)

So, are there any fabric paints that an airbrush can handle that don't
require heat
setting? I'm curious how the guys at geohex or MKP or any of these spots
managed this
challenge? Industrial drying/heating room? 

Tomb
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