I've done a few color fill projects with fairly consistent results: Seal (2 coats) water down acrylic paints, wipe dry, paint again, wipe and dry ! CO2 deep engraving too !
Great info! On the test with the bird image (which looks fantastic, by the way) did you do all three colors at once, or use multiple passes of your procedure? And,lastly, do you have any idea when your CO2 Bootcamp will begin using the P2?
Hi George - thanks! For the hummingbird I used Method 21. And I did 2 coats. Within each coat, I did all the colors. In other words, I applied the 3 colors with acrylic craft paint and a small brush, rinsing the brush between each color, then I let all 3 colors dry, and then I repeated for the 2nd coat.
oh and the co2 laser bootcamp, I appreciate your interest in that. I’m planning to have it up and running by next Summer. Sorry, I know that’s a long wait, but I’m expecting it to take months to get the program up to the quality that I want.
Maybe I’m missing something, but why don’t you just do a cut instead of a fill and cut your pattern out like a stencil from painters masking tape on the surface of the wood and then weed out what you want to paint. Spray paint that and remove the rest of the tape. You’re just using the laser to create a stencil.
For me, there’s 2 main reasons I didn’t do it that way: 1. That’s a surface painting, not an engraving filled with paint, each will have different looks (primarily depth) and I was focused on filling engravings for this vid. But with that said, if that method works for your project, then don’t let me stop you :) 2. I don’t recall the method numbers off hand, but in the tests where I did use spray paint, I didn’t get good results. I believe streaking and leaking under the masking were the main issues.
@@asherdiy OK I see what you’re saying. I just tried doing both and I did get some paint leaking into the grain under the tape however, maybe if you sealed it first before you painted it because I don’t think it’s going under the tape as much as it is following the end grains of the cut wood if you follow me.
@@asherdiyOkay, I just tried what I said about sealing it first and then painting it. I used a spray mat clearcoat and then spray painted that and that worked great. Didn’t get any bleeding and I’m just using 1/8th inch bass plywood. Just my thoughts thanks.
I've done a few color fill projects with fairly consistent results: Seal (2 coats) water down acrylic paints, wipe dry, paint again, wipe and dry ! CO2 deep engraving too !
Great series, I’d like to see how you did multiple colors more in depth
Thanks! And noted, I’ll keep that in mind if I manage to make a “how to” follow up.
That was very helpful. Thank you!
Thanks!
Great info! On the test with the bird image (which looks fantastic, by the way) did you do all three colors at once, or use multiple passes of your procedure? And,lastly, do you have any idea when your CO2 Bootcamp will begin using the P2?
Hi George - thanks! For the hummingbird I used Method 21. And I did 2 coats. Within each coat, I did all the colors. In other words, I applied the 3 colors with acrylic craft paint and a small brush, rinsing the brush between each color, then I let all 3 colors dry, and then I repeated for the 2nd coat.
oh and the co2 laser bootcamp, I appreciate your interest in that. I’m planning to have it up and running by next Summer. Sorry, I know that’s a long wait, but I’m expecting it to take months to get the program up to the quality that I want.
It would have been good to see the actual colour fill process.
Hi Adrian - which method did you want to see that for? I may do a “how to” follow up to this test video if there’s enough interest.
I agree, the most important part which is the process was omitted.
@ seeing you take maybe one of each of the final pairs all the way through would be good. Maybe one using the heat gun and one the oven.
Yes I would like to see the process to colour as bit confused.
Okay, thanks everybody for the input. I’m gonna put a follow up “how to” video on my to do list for this. Cheers.
Maybe I’m missing something, but why don’t you just do a cut instead of a fill and cut your pattern out like a stencil from painters masking tape on the surface of the wood and then weed out what you want to paint. Spray paint that and remove the rest of the tape. You’re just using the laser to create a stencil.
For me, there’s 2 main reasons I didn’t do it that way:
1. That’s a surface painting, not an engraving filled with paint, each will have different looks (primarily depth) and I was focused on filling engravings for this vid. But with that said, if that method works for your project, then don’t let me stop you :)
2. I don’t recall the method numbers off hand, but in the tests where I did use spray paint, I didn’t get good results. I believe streaking and leaking under the masking were the main issues.
@@asherdiy OK I see what you’re saying. I just tried doing both and I did get some paint leaking into the grain under the tape however, maybe if you sealed it first before you painted it because I don’t think it’s going under the tape as much as it is following the end grains of the cut wood if you follow me.
@@asherdiyOkay, I just tried what I said about sealing it first and then painting it. I used a spray mat clearcoat and then spray painted that and that worked great. Didn’t get any bleeding and I’m just using 1/8th inch bass plywood. Just my thoughts thanks.