Ecto Goggles Take 2

Equipment Ecto Goggles
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I am redoing my goggles, seeing as how I found a REALLY good way to paint/stain the things. I am using the same method I used to paint my grips from my pack.

Striped all the paint off the frames.

A little of this shit goes a long way

1st coat on.

will update shortly

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Z what is it that your using to color/paint these?

I’ve tried doing mine to color them black but the paint kept coming out tacky and i tried all the things the peeps here told me to do but needless to say…didnt work.

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Finished painting. Unlike the spray paint from last time. This stuff has a NICE flat coat and is not sticky

Went ahead and weathered these a bit

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Dr Ph Martin Bombay India Ink

it comes in MANY colors. You can only get it at art supply stores. So no Michael’s or Hobby Lobby for this stuff

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Damn…of course there are NO freakin art stores around here…except like Michael’s or Joanne Fabrics, lol.

Thanks tho

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http://www.in2art.com/art-supplies/drmartins-bombay-indiaink2

here ya go

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Thank ya much sir

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Anything to help a fellow Ghosthead

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Not a bad effort. Although after my last 2 builds using the welding goggles, I kind of hate them.

When I made mine, I took the flipping shield off. Made them look less oversized and a bit more like the night vission frames.

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I checked Micheal’s Tonight and they do sell India ink just not the Bombay brand. I bought a 2 1/2 oz bottle og higgins Permanent ink. I’ll try it out see what happens I have an extra pair of welding goggles so if it fails I will have my back up pair

John

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the India Ink that I used dried fine but I was not totally happy with the end result. I ran water on the goggles and the ink stayed on. I rubbed my thumb across them and very little rubbed off. But you could see the brush strokes after it dried. But i did test it with rubbing alcohol and it stripped it right off, it did stain the vinyl and made it a darker green. So i dusted it with a light coat of Ultra flat Olive drab (Krylon) I like the OD green color, but the goggles I painted were just test goggles So I went ahead and Plasti-dipped them today. Plasti dip holds very well so far from what I can tell.

What I would like to know from you is, where did you get the silver knobs on the side of the goggles?

John

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I got them from an old radio I got at a yaed sale for 10 cents.

XD

What type of brush did you use? I used a sponge brush with two coats of the ink. No marks or brush strokes to be seen.

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I used a sponge brush. looks a little wider then the one in your pics

John

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i think mine was about 1 in.

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Mine i think was 1 1/2 in.

Heres a link to the thread for my goggles

Let me know what you think.

John