BACKGLASS TOUCH UP;

The backglass was first sealed with “Bodytech Clear coat” automotive clear acrylic lacquer, purchased from Kmart. While you can get away with using this kind of clear acrylic, Triple Thick is MUCH better! Anything other that Triple Thick can cause the coloured inks to bleed back through the white diffusing ink on the glass, as has happened to this one. It doesn’t harm the artwork though luckily, but if you sprayed it on too heavily too quickly things could get nasty!!!.

Touch-up’s were done using “Chromacryl” water based acrylic artist’s paints and “Holts” or “Power Plus” automotive acrylic touch up spray paint.

The spray paint was used to touch up the blue translucent areas of the backglass. The entire original colour had to be carefully chipped out using a hot hobby knife (heated with a cigarette lighter). This was an experimental procedure, as I had never heard of anyone using spray paint to touch up a backglass this way before, and therefore was taking a big risk I thought!! I traced the area onto paper and made stencils as shown in the pic below, in order to paint these areas. The results aren’t perfect but it looks a lot better than it did before!

Since doing my Dracula glass and seeing how good it turned out I might have another go at this glass and do some more work on it!!!