Tried some new techniques both with fletching and painting, read on if your interested and as addicted as I am to arra cresting.
From Left to right.
2 Green spiral flu flus.
1 Red sprial flu flu, 1 red layered fluflu
Alyce clout/3d (orange)
2 spare clout/3d(purple)
4 purple fluflu (6 fletch)
2 spare clout/3d(blue)
4 blue fluflu (6 fletch)
coordination, colour combination or artistic preference gave way to research..ie I wanted to test things not make em look too pretty:)
spiral.
Both the green and red flus were spray painted in an effort to get a speckled effect and on one I attempted a spiral paint job with two interwoven tints(because one is easy!! I was trying to attempt a bright line with dark background..not so easy to sync spirals :lol). Modlers spray gun works ok but its only a cheapy and the droplets were a tad large and the nozzle had no shape control. After application it does require a Steel Wool Rub to smooth out. Best was to lightly swr, then top coat clear, then a decent swr and then another top coat. Doesnt show in the picture but the yellow bands look nice amongst the green. The metallic green bands hardly show up
However they did not run when top coat was applied so maybe its only the copper metallic paint that does this (see other posts).I interwove the green full feathers, a barred and light green. A little trickier than layering or one after the other but I think it looks nicer (see the red one foreground).
Alyce arrows. (for newbie archer)
Again spray painted, orange underneath and purple patch ontop.The orange was a previous acrylic artists paint purchased which would not brush on and had ended up on the no good bin. However I mixed it down with water and it sprayed very nicely. You cant tell from the image but there is a distinct lack of brush marks as opposed to the purple n blue. Fletching..yeah well I was running our of feathers
Purple n Blue
I tired a different sequence. White on purple rather than under coat white then purple ontop leaving gaps of white where the bands will go. I thought it would be easier but the white does not cover the purple well..
I also did not paint the front half of the shaft. This I decking oil/danish. It slips in and out of targets better than my top coat clear. The fletching was made up of alternate white and purple barred...or white and black for the blue arras.
To be honest Im glad I dont have to go home tonight to tinker with arras
But it was fun at the time.I much prefer the slightly more expensive but softer artists brushes from bunnings. The darker ones as compared to the cheap light cream brown ones.
I use the Mr hobby paints for the bands and anything else everywhere else.literally, bunnings have miss tinted tins for $1-$10 sometimes. The top coat ultra clear stuff sprays on much easier than brushing. All painting done in my cresting jig lathe.
Total job took about 10 cups of tea much thanks to mrsstringnstik for bringing them out to me.
