Re: [GZG] Question for the painting gurus...day-glo

Doug Evans schrieb:
> Have folks found reasons to try the reverse of  this? I've been trying
to
> get a paint guru to experiment with black drybrushed over dayglo
colors,
> say, red or blue, for volcanic rock or 'hot' engine heat sinks. One of
my
> trash ships has ribbing down the center of the pieces I've taken from
> plastic cutlery handles. It looks smashing in my imagination. ;->=?

I can only comment on the Day-glo part of it, not on dry-brushing over
it.

Day-glo works fine for 'fiery' or 'luminous' parts of a mini.

It is important that you paint day-glo over a light colored primer. A 
dark primer will affect the reflection and it will look muddy. White 
works best, but a bright, light version of the main day-glo colour will 
also work e.g.yellow under red, yellow or orange day-glo, sky-blue under

blue or green.

You can also paint using various day-glo streaks, e.g.red, yellow and 
orange for fire.

I have never tried dry-brushing over day-glo, but I don't think there 
should be a problem. I think a good contrast, using quite dark colours 
should work best.

Greetings
Karl Heinz

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