on paint

what kind of paint and paint procedures would you all use to cover up ding repairs? in those situations when the dings are big and you know you cant make it look like the way it was before, so you apply functional art on the board.

You can use posca pens (or zig makes a good one) on the hotcoat. Just repair as normal, cover the area with pen work and do an acrylic topcoat. Try searching on posca or zig pen… lots of stuff to be found.

Here is the posca pens foamez has:

http://www.foamez.com/store/products.cfm?subCategory=50

Poscas are great, as are glass-in laminates (flowers, tribals, whatever does the job) that serve to distract and to some extent to cover the repaired area. Otherwise, if you’re doing an opaque color cover and you can’t get the color just right, try using fades in the area rather then abrupt color changes. A gradual fade will blend and hide better than a clean tape line.

Good luck.

If you’re painting over a hotcoat, use acrylics and airbrush them. Then use 4 oz clear over it, clear hotcoat, than a gloss or acrylic spray. If you just gloss or hotcoat over the paint, you’ll usually cut into it when you sand to feather the edges in. Then you’re repainting/glassing all over again.

I’m assuming that the repairs are already there and you just want to hide them. You can also color lam 4 oz over the areas, clear hotcoat and sand the edges to blend. There’s alot of info on coloring repairs in the archives if you’re doing them from scratch.