Re: how to "smoke" clear plastic?

Joe Strout wrote:
> Well, yeah, but it's not clear to me how I would use these.  Normally
> you use these on a flat horizontal surface (or so I understand it).
> This is a curved surface, half a giant Easter egg.  If the paint is
> thin, it's going to run right off and make a puddle in the middle.  If
> it's thick enough to stick to the sides, it seems like I'd have brush
> strokes galore.  (Maybe this is just a skill problem -- a more
> experienced painter might know how to avoid that.)

A beginner's airbrush set is pretty cheap. That and acrylic paint
doesn't leave much brush strokes and applies evenly. As mentioned by
someone else here, if you paint on the *inside* you should have better
results. The best is to just do it.

Look under PLASTICS in the yellow pages for plastic fabricators,
plastics retailers, etc. Tinting/smoking plastic is a common thing for
most of them. They won't expect you to know what kind of plastic it is.
That's their job.

-- Gordon