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Sponge painting stocks?
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<blockquote data-quote="DJ Fergus" data-source="post: 2223080" data-attributes="member: 93895"><p>I have done a little bit of sponge painting. I'm sure someone else will come along with more advice but here goes: first suggestion for painting cheap synthetic stocks is use a camo krylon fusion for a base paint. It sticks better than anything I've tried. I also mostly use one or two of the other fusion camo colors for sponging.</p><p>Next suggestion is to try your pattern out and practice on something else before painting the stock.</p><p>Watch a YouTube video of someone doing it.</p><p>Last suggestion is that you want to pay attention to how tacky the paint gets on the sponge. I think it looks better if you let the paint on the sponge get a little tacky before applying the sponge to the base coat. That's just my preference. To get the paint on the sponge a little tacky, I will saturate the sponge with spray paint and then dab the sponge on some card board or paper plate, wait a little while then get some more paint on the sponge and dab it on cardboard some more to see if it's looking like the pattern that I want and if it's tacky enough. Repeat and/or wait a little longer for painting on sponge to dry some if needed.</p><p></p><p>There was alot of trial and error learning for me. But I done the trial and error on something else besides the stock first so I didn't mess the stock up and have to strip it back down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DJ Fergus, post: 2223080, member: 93895"] I have done a little bit of sponge painting. I'm sure someone else will come along with more advice but here goes: first suggestion for painting cheap synthetic stocks is use a camo krylon fusion for a base paint. It sticks better than anything I've tried. I also mostly use one or two of the other fusion camo colors for sponging. Next suggestion is to try your pattern out and practice on something else before painting the stock. Watch a YouTube video of someone doing it. Last suggestion is that you want to pay attention to how tacky the paint gets on the sponge. I think it looks better if you let the paint on the sponge get a little tacky before applying the sponge to the base coat. That's just my preference. To get the paint on the sponge a little tacky, I will saturate the sponge with spray paint and then dab the sponge on some card board or paper plate, wait a little while then get some more paint on the sponge and dab it on cardboard some more to see if it's looking like the pattern that I want and if it's tacky enough. Repeat and/or wait a little longer for painting on sponge to dry some if needed. There was alot of trial and error learning for me. But I done the trial and error on something else besides the stock first so I didn't mess the stock up and have to strip it back down. [/QUOTE]
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