I think we should start a "hand painted" thread

[MikeH]

I've been getting into hand painting my builds lately, and I know there are a lot of very cool hand painted pedals out there by fellow forumites.  Let's see them- Here's my latest.



It's a Guv'nor and DOD 280 compressor in one

[Fishface]

What was the inspiration for the design? 

[arma61]

Hi

Have you seen these


Armando

[MikeH]

What was the inspiration for the design? 

I saw another hand painted pedal somewhere that had a rising sun in the background and I really liked it.  I just kind of went from there.

Hi

Have you seen these

Armando

Ahhh... I thought there was one started somewhere.  I guess Aron didn't move it when he set up this sub forum.

[bancika]

here's mine

[joegagan]

that guitar is really pretty! :icojavascript:void(0);n_biggrin:

[jmwreck]

well, here's my booster, ive posted it a couple of times already, enjoy!

[MikeH]

What was the inspiration for the design? 

I saw another hand painted pedal somewhere that had a rising sun in the background and I really liked it.  I just kind of went from there.

Ha ha!  That's the one I was talking about!  It's seriously sweet.  I think I saw it on a different forum?  What sort of paint did you use?

[jmwreck]

What was the inspiration for the design? 

I saw another hand painted pedal somewhere that had a rising sun in the background and I really liked it.  I just kind of went from there.

Ha ha!  That's the one I was talking about!  It's seriously sweet.  I think I saw it on a different forum?  What sort of paint did you use?

hope you believe me in thisL  I've painted it with watercolors, but it wont work, and fortunately I have some colored markers, and it did the job! but I've painted it with clearcoat paint to preserve the colorings!   

[MikeH]

I've been using Testors, but I have to wonder if ordinary acrylic paints with a healthy dose of clear coat would work better.  Testors are definitely a "Paint by number" kind of paint; it's very difficult (if not impossible) to get nice texture, shading, or any kind of gradient going with them.

[tasos]

this is my lovely pedal....isn"t it lovely?[no it is terryfying! ] hhehe

[arawn]

the trick with testors is getting the consistency right, you generallly have to thin them some to get them to go om well.

[nordine]

Here

[tasos]

Here

amazing~!!!!!don't forget to spray with laquer....this must stay on forever!

[nordine]

Here

amazing~!!!!!don't forget to spray with laquer....this must stay on forever!

why thank you! hehe

now let me tell you something about lacquer, see this:



its already lacquered
since i was soo excited about it being finished fast, i sprayed a lot of lacquer to it. the top stayed the same, but the sides, oh boy, i drew so much stuff on it, very tiny stuff and details (people, little animals, fur and what not) ...but when i threw all that lacquer on it, i saw how all the drawing (and painting) MELTED on my very eyes... but that only served to motivate me to do much more of this, i also do like how it looks

[tasos]

i kinda like it more now!

[fredy]

Jmwreck that is amazing! infact it inspired me to hand paint my neovibe:


It's supposed to be base on hendrix's montery pop strat. Its not perfect and full of hand made charm but i'm pretty happy with it considering its my first build.

[Yorick]

That is really nice! Especially since it's your first build!

[fredy]

  Thank you! This site is such a great resource that is was fairly straight foward to build; kudos to everyone involved with this site!

[ugly_guitar_guy]

Well, my painting skills don't go much further than "point and spray" so I had my wife whip up this little piece of artwork on my "Mini Mastodon" bass fuzz pedal.

I've got her working on a couple more now as well. Much better than the sad stick figures that I draw....