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Hi Melody (and Welcome Back!),
Pretty much every one of my 10+-yr-old peacock dragons has at least one fleabite or chip I’d like to touch up. I’ve already painted a black primer base on them. I’ve tried using the Golden blue interference paints on the blue areas of one dragon, but the color is too light. Maybe Golden has changed the formula or shade since they were manufactured…
Anyway, I’d love any suggestions as to how to approximate the blue, green, and *especially* the champagne violet color on the peacock dragon line – what colors do we mix? Better yet, can we get touch up paint from the WE factory?? I have asked around the forum, and only one person seemed to have any touch up paint; they had very little, and when I asked about it a couple weeks ago I didn’t receive a reply 🙁 Can I/we at least get the champagne color? Only need a little, and would be happy to pay for the paint and shipping of course!Jerusha wrote:Hi Melody (and Welcome Back!),
Pretty much every one of my 10+-yr-old peacock dragons has at least one fleabite or chip I’d like to touch up. I’ve already painted a black primer base on them. I’ve tried using the Golden blue interference paints on the blue areas of one dragon, but the color is too light. Maybe Golden has changed the formula or shade since they were manufactured…
Anyway, I’d love any suggestions as to how to approximate the blue, green, and *especially* the champagne violet color on the peacock dragon line – what colors do we mix? Better yet, can we get touch up paint from the WE factory?? I have asked around the forum, and only one person seemed to have any touch up paint; they had very little, and when I asked about it a couple weeks ago I didn’t receive a reply 🙁 Can I/we at least get the champagne color? Only need a little, and would be happy to pay for the paint and shipping of course!
Sorry I didn’t get back to you, I have been “off line” from the internet for the past three weeks or so…
To make the interference paint look good, you need to brush it on as thin as you can. Contrary to logic, the more interference paint you put on, the lighter it gets. We airbrush on a very thin coat over black.Try thinning it with water and see how it looks brushed over black.
The champagne color is one we mixed. We used it on the old peacock dragons, but they were retired a long time ago! I’m not sure we still have any of the paint left. I will try to remember to check on Monday.That would be excellent! If there’s no touch up paint, it would be wonderful to know at least which colors were mixed together to achieve that particular shade 🙂 Thanks for the advice on the interference paint; I noticed that the thicker it gets, the lighter it appears, so will keep that in mind next go-round.
And I remember reading about your being “incommunicado”, Melody, as your daughter posted a thread letting us know. I hope everything is going well (better?) for you, and you know you have *all* our bestest wishes!
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