fishies
04-03-2005, 11:40 PM
I like subterfuge and misdirection. To hide something just from casual view, until momentously that something is revealed. That's why I had to try out the clearcoat UV reactive paint from http://www.clearneon.com/. The thought of having the inside chassis one colour, then hit the UV and BAM! another colour, different from the first, screaming out for attention made me almost wet myself. Chameleon paints are one thing, but this could be something else.
Being the obstinant * censor* that I am, I called them directly. I wanted to know where the closest point of purchase was to my location. I was looking for a Canadian Address. According to The Guidebook to Poor Customer Satisfaction, it is imparative the customer, whether new or repeat be told the closest location is the farthest location, and that you do not know anything closer, because, quite frankly, you don't know where "someplace, nowhere" is. Furthermore, if the customer wants to buy direct, it will have to be done on a 24 case minimum, and it's only through accounting we can set the customer up. Place on hold and forget.
I decided I would find another location to buy from. I bought the UV Orang and UV Blue. We'll go over each colour here.
After I painted my target with a base colour and let dry, I then applied 3 coats of the blue, drying between coats. To my surprise, what showed up on my target piece wasn't what I expected. BAM! Neon something, a washed out blue, mostly white, but very neon. Ok. maybe I put it on the wrong colour... Upon closer inspection, I could see it was not in fact completely clear. The brightness from my base colour was dulled by this neon clear. It's not THAT bad, but I could really tell.
My second piece, I did a little different. I applied the coats, but I applied more coats - four to be precise. The orange UV made the base colour ghost glow orange. The base is visible through a coating of orange juice. That's what it looks like to me. I'm either going to have to sand down the piece, and reapply the base colour and forget about the neon, or apply more coats.
It would have been nice to have the clear go on in a coloured form and dry clear. Painting under a black light holds little interest with me, but it's really the only way to apply this stuff.
Anything under the clear, i.e., dust, dirt, Jimmy Hoffa, are very visible in neon mode.
I would recommend this product if you had a lot of money to waste and smaller parts to neon, as a can will not do a case, and 2 barely do the job.
PROS:
Proper colour matching gives off bright neon
CONS:
Not all colours are compatible
Product sales/support people are dumb
Expensive for larger applications
Leaves visible residue of neon reactive material
Shows any dirt or defect in base paint
The paint comes of most surfaces with doap and water. Clearcoat must be applied after to lock it down.
Purchase at your own risk.
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Holy * censor * I only swore once there. Do you know how mad I was when I saw the results of the orange? I was * censor * * censor * * censor * * censor * * censor *......
I'll post images of the victims once I get my digicam from the wife.
Being the obstinant * censor* that I am, I called them directly. I wanted to know where the closest point of purchase was to my location. I was looking for a Canadian Address. According to The Guidebook to Poor Customer Satisfaction, it is imparative the customer, whether new or repeat be told the closest location is the farthest location, and that you do not know anything closer, because, quite frankly, you don't know where "someplace, nowhere" is. Furthermore, if the customer wants to buy direct, it will have to be done on a 24 case minimum, and it's only through accounting we can set the customer up. Place on hold and forget.
I decided I would find another location to buy from. I bought the UV Orang and UV Blue. We'll go over each colour here.
After I painted my target with a base colour and let dry, I then applied 3 coats of the blue, drying between coats. To my surprise, what showed up on my target piece wasn't what I expected. BAM! Neon something, a washed out blue, mostly white, but very neon. Ok. maybe I put it on the wrong colour... Upon closer inspection, I could see it was not in fact completely clear. The brightness from my base colour was dulled by this neon clear. It's not THAT bad, but I could really tell.
My second piece, I did a little different. I applied the coats, but I applied more coats - four to be precise. The orange UV made the base colour ghost glow orange. The base is visible through a coating of orange juice. That's what it looks like to me. I'm either going to have to sand down the piece, and reapply the base colour and forget about the neon, or apply more coats.
It would have been nice to have the clear go on in a coloured form and dry clear. Painting under a black light holds little interest with me, but it's really the only way to apply this stuff.
Anything under the clear, i.e., dust, dirt, Jimmy Hoffa, are very visible in neon mode.
I would recommend this product if you had a lot of money to waste and smaller parts to neon, as a can will not do a case, and 2 barely do the job.
PROS:
Proper colour matching gives off bright neon
CONS:
Not all colours are compatible
Product sales/support people are dumb
Expensive for larger applications
Leaves visible residue of neon reactive material
Shows any dirt or defect in base paint
The paint comes of most surfaces with doap and water. Clearcoat must be applied after to lock it down.
Purchase at your own risk.
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Holy * censor * I only swore once there. Do you know how mad I was when I saw the results of the orange? I was * censor * * censor * * censor * * censor * * censor *......
I'll post images of the victims once I get my digicam from the wife.