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painting the white on northern pike

Discussion in 'Beginners' started by the grey, Mar 5, 2015.

  1. Mar 5, 2015 #1
    the grey

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    painted a couple northerns with the air brush but between the quality of gun and paint and thinners im having a tough time getting it dialed in well enough to paint the white spots on the side of body of northern pike. is there a hand way of doing the white spots. Even the professionals ive seen leaving a little bit of white foggy overspray over the lines and spots. Is there some white pencil type things out there or something similar to that?
     
  3. Mar 5, 2015 #2
    3bears

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    Spend some time here researching this and you will find a number of different ways. I myself use several methods such as adding retarder and thinner to my paints and using airbrush to actually removing paint with thinner and a Q-tip, and everything in between. Sometimes it is when you do it more than how.
     

  5. Mar 6, 2015 #3
    Driftless

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    Ditto on cleaning off beans with lacquer thinner on qtip after applying green. Then can lightly do beans with whatever medium you want. I like panpastels best.


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  6. Mar 14, 2015 #4
    KAMoHunter

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    If u paint it right from the get go, u will have no need to worry about overspray. If u are dealing with a light paint first and following it up with a broadcast coat of a darker color,u won't be able to notice the light overspray unless u applied the whites to thick.......which is a very common mistake
     
  7. Mar 17, 2015 #5
    jigginjim

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    I could be wrong but spray the bean areas Bass belly white first with laquaer, after you use Q-tip to move the over sprayed green beans. Now spray Green using water base paint, removing over spray from beans with Q-tip, this will not remove your white.