Main part of Dragon done, filled in last part and outlined. Had issue posca pen exploding on me just as I was about to finish. Can’t put too much pressure when using. Going to try and cut the pickguard today with v cutter and also maybe add the rays today or tomorrow.
Painting started. Printed outlines from illustrator and transferred over using graphite pencil and tracing with stylus, then redrew with pencil and started painting with posca paint markers. So far so good. Got to be careful not to apply to much paint. The pink turned out more rose redish color, which looks fine to me, they don’t make a metallic pink. So far no mistakes, found a groove, didn’t want to push my luck and smear the paint, will paint the reset tomorrow and outline in black. Super fun.
Added 3 more coats today. Coming out really well. I think it needs a 3 more coats for fuller coverage over the dark stain. Will do a few coats tomorrow morning and then let her dry all day and start dragon painting on Monday or Tuesday. Overall going really smoothly now. The color matches more of the first picture on top left. Stupid pixel phone doesn’t capture raw color.
Finished adding about 6 light coats of sanding sealer, had issue with having fill grain on parts I over sanded. Had to use grain filler on those parts and reseal. Sanding to 320 grit. 2 coats of light blue paint applied with foam brush. Trying to keep coats light to maintain smoothness. Perfect day for painting may add 3-4 more coats. Let dry on Sunday and start painting dragon on Monday.
Prepping the Epiphone SG Jr. for dragon painting. Dismantled, pulled posts using Brad Angove’s method using a small screw and then using post screw to pull post insert up. Sanded to 220 using mirka pads and horns sanded manually. Really surprised to find nice looking wood underneath. Epiphone could’ve stained this and would’ve looked nice. Added 1 coat of sanding sealer, 3 or 4 more today. Hour dry time in between coats and level sand tomorrow maybe, depending on how flat it is. WIll recreate the pickguard with 1/8″ teal transparent acrylic sheet from delvies. The amazon paints should come in soon I ordered some more metallic green posca markers from home depot, they were only $3.99. I also have the metallic purple and metallic pink, ordered teal normal posca marker also and ivory for the claws.