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Ultra Violet paint demo on youtube
#241826 November 17th 2008 12:16 am
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My buddy Korn from the Maritimes has been immersing himself in airbrushing and has been telling me about this new paint for over a year now. I had an idea what it could do but you have to see this video from the UK to appreciate it. This is a natural for custom vans:




Re: Ultra Violet paint demo on youtube
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It's very cool, but how often are they gonna let you bring your van into the dance club?




Re: Ultra Violet paint demo on youtube
Boot #241847 November 17th 2008 2:04 am
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Hey Virtual, thanks for posting that - very cool!

UV is *great* stuff, (as long as your eyes are protected!)and it's much easier to get high intensity UV lamps now than it used to be... I think it would be an *awesome* paint treatment for parked vans at an event. Think Jekyl and Hyde...

There are plenty of 12 volt cold cathode UV lamps that emit a reasonable amount of UV for dark environments, and the new UV LEDs generate quite a lot of light.

External UV fluorescent paint is however, short lived compared to some other paints. The colors tend to fade. Still really cool though.

These paints can be had easily here in the USA; I bought a bunch of various colors of transparent UV fluorescent paints from an eBay store a couple of years ago, but never did anything with them. You can paint them on over another painting and they barely turn the surface milky. When UV light hits them, they go *crazy* though. I was thinking of painting a mural inside on a wall of the van and having it turn into something completely different under UV light, but I've since decided on a totally different interior. Still have the itch to try the paints though...

If you'd like to see how strikingly pretty UV energized colors can be, have a look around my fluorescent minerals collection folder on photobucket. I took the majority of the photos myself:
http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z207/Ram4ever/Fluorescent%20Minerals/?start=40
I really love these, and have hundreds of specimens. Every one is it's own little universe.

The colors really need a dark background to maximize the effect.

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Ram4ever #241942 November 17th 2008 12:16 pm
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Thats pretty cool stuff there.


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Dodges 3 #241962 November 17th 2008 1:14 pm
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Thats REALLY COOL!!! I would love to do that on Fog Cutter.... c'mon Lotto! LOL


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Snotty #245864 December 04th 2008 10:53 pm
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thats awesome


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hippieluke #246338 December 07th 2008 1:04 pm
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Reminds me of that guy who used to have a how-to painting show on public T.V. ("Now let's put in a happy little cloud here"), but on acid.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Ross

bummer didnt know he died!


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Re: Ultra Violet paint demo on youtube
Snotty #250236 December 23rd 2008 2:08 am
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That stuff is AWSOME! Thanks for putting it here so we could see it......

I often wondered about doing a mural on a van or ??? of a arctic ice flow, walruses and polar bears on the ice kinda thing, and maybe one or two in the water, then turn off the lights and a whole different scene shows up below the water.....

This stuff would really help with that idea.... now, where did I hide that winning power ball ticket?


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