Spraying wood!?

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lee dewell

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Hi guys and girls,

I picked up some ply wood to do a bit of airbrushing on. Instead of spraying directly onto wood I thought it would be best to give it some sort of primer. I have a few cans of spray paint for cars and even car primers etc etc.

So I have sprayed this wood black using standard car spray paint. I then sketched a quick outline of what I wanted and got to spraying with Wicked Colours. However, as the paint is drying it is fast becoming very transparent. I'm mixing the wicked paint with wicked reducer 3:1. (3parts paint).

Do you guys have any tips? Should I have used a white primer base instead of just spraying the wood black? Or is my paint still too thin?

I inky went straight in for the black as the piece I am doing is very dark anyway and mainly black and dark greens.

Thanks
 
Do you mean the black base is becoming transparent? If so then the [[aint is probably soaking into the wood some.
 
Hi squishy, no, the black is fine.

So I'm working on a black piece of wood. The black paint used was car spray paint. But when I put the wicked colours over the black base the wicked colours become transparent.
 
No I'm not using transparent colours, I don't think anyway, I've used them before any never experienced this problem. They are just standard wicked primary colours. Which makes me think the problem is the black base? Maybe the wicked paint don't like the car spray paint although I was under the impression that wicked was quite universal
 
In that case it's normal, you won't get full coverage in one pass, you just keep going over it until you reach the intensity that you seek, when airbrushing we would generally gradually build up values, the phenomenon you are now experiencing helps us do that.
 
I use Wicked over automotive paint all the time, so I would be surprised if it was that. But the black will affect the colour of the paint. To get a truer colour I always do a white underpainting first.
 
I use Wicked over automotive paint all the time, so I would be surprised if it was that. But the black will affect the colour of the paint. To get a truer colour I always do a white underpainting first.
Yes, that too☺

It would help if we new what colour you are using.
 
Hey guys thanks for the help. I did keep going over it and it did appear to get better however I took to the white I had and just did the area I was working on, I then sprayed over the white with the wicked colours and problem solved, I think I'll be using a white base from now on, lol!

Thanks for the help guys :)
 
Tis fun to actually airbrush the wood with a waterbased stain, but all my early works were done on primed MDF and honestly its an awesome surface to use, may go back to it as its cheaper too LOL..No tips besides what you probably already did anyway, but after you prime it once, do it again, and again until you get a solid base, its likely the paint your using is a transparent of sorts but ya gotta keep going until it won't soak it in anymore, otherwise your airbrushing will soak into the grain also, oh yer don't forget to sand it nice and flat again to give the paint some tooth....best of luck
 
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