Strat Copy Swirled
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- First time try with Magic Marble Paints. Flipping amazing stuff and has saved me a LOT of mucking about with borax and thinning paints etc.... No borax used, regular tap water and 27c temp (78f). That's it! Enjoy.
Nice job! I like the bottom horn.
So James, I’ll try my sixth time on the same fender mustang body tomorrow. It’s getting old sanding it back down. Here are some things I’ve learned, for one we live where the water is extremely hard so I now use water from my water softener. This help a lot with getting the water to shake off. This might sound funny but I also put on the same song so I know where I am time wise. Like when the chorus or bridge starts I had better be done putting paint in. Also stir slowly with a pencil or pin size dowel or straw. Don’t use a paint stick it cause turbulents which leads to open water, no paint. Hope some of this helps anyone attempting to swirl paint. Joe
Nice work and good luck!
Totes Amazeballs! 👌🏻 👍🏼 😍
... sweet ... well done ... love the PAW swirl (Y)
Hey James, I hope you see this comment. Thanks for these video uploads. I've watched a few. So the problem I'm having is the paint skinning too quickly. I'm using Magic Marble paints. Did you ever figure out "the trick" for this? You simply have to work fast? I saw your comment below where you describe running into problems when doing the Explorer body because the receptacle was much larger. I have a 100 gal Rubbermaid plastic bin I'm going to do it in, I've seen a few other videos where people did it in this thing. But I've been doing test runs on small pieces of wood in a smaller kitchen bowl and the paint is drying way too fast. I can't imagine how difficult it will be doing it in a giant tub. It will take longer to drop in all the paint and it'll start drying I guess. Thank you!
Funnily enough, I have a new guitar I want to swirl any day now and I haven’t done any swirling till basically after I uploaded this video. It’s a super frustrating and soul destroying artform….. but when you pull off a great swirl it’s worth it.
Now magic marble…… notoriously tricky to work with but nowhere near as troublesome as figuring out what enamel paints to use, amount of borax, how much to thin the paints down etc…..
But with the convenience of Magic Marble the biggest downside is skinning off fast. Here’s my plan in the coming days.
1: make sure you have another person, or even two handy, with pippettes at the ready to do the paint drops. I’m gonna use the kids this time. Give them an order of colour drop in the drum and placement.
2: going to try indoors and utilise the aircon system to bring the air temperature to the same as the water temperature because sometimes I think the paint skins so fast hitting either the cold air or cold water. So I’ll be heating the water to 26c as well as the room I’m doing it in. If you have warmer weather happening then outside may be fine.
3: our tap water is extremely hard water. Another factor I reckon. Going to use demineralised water or rainwater, definitely no scheme water.
Apart from these changes, the only recommendation is to MOVE FAST! (Even the videos on the tube show it skinning quickly, hopefully these additions I’m putting in to my wheelhouse here add precious seconds of time)
I’ll do another video if I can be arsed.
Sounds like I need to do some practice runs before I dive right in 🤔. I've done this before a long time ago like once or twice and I could never be happy with the outcome. About the drying maybe it's the paint or the outside humidity. I know if it's really dry and hot paint will start to dry faster. If its cooler and the humidity level isn't too low paint will dry slower. I know this because I once painted an airplane interior, and when I opened the doors to let air in to get rid of the smell. I came back and the overhead bins looked like a scene from a scary movie where the walls are melting. I took a horrible delay that night. But learned that because it was hot a humid outside and inside the airplane the AC was running it caused a lot of condensation. Sorry for the long story. Just curious how things worked out for your paint. I'm using testers enamel paint and I plan on thinning it by half.
I've recently learned you need to dip within 3 minutes of putting Magic Marble on the surface. Makes sense to me as the last couple of failures I had, I was pissing about with it too much.
Nice what color you use and what water use
Was the yellow a primer or just a regular base coat?
Regular base coat
Pretty cool. Does the size of the bucket/water surface effects in any way?
Majed Jastaneiah this is where shit gets complicated with Magic Marble. This bin is okay for a strat sized guitar body. But only just. I’d say you’d need a slightly bigger surface area to really get enough paint on the body but we had an explorer body to do which is much larger so we used a receptacle four times bigger than in this video and Magic Marble dried way too fast on the water and was a spectacular fail. I’m unsure of exactly what went wrong but once we started swirling the paint about it just all collected up on the stick like cling wrap. I’ll tell you what, this artform is the most frustrating art I’ve ever done.