Quick and easy paint eyes?

NickR

NickR

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This is a follow up to my vermiculation question a week or two ago. (I'll be doing the vermiculating today or tomorrow.)

I have a drake bluebill and a drake can in the works. I think I can figure something out for the can - probably the same basic color as the head, with a little black thrown in to make it darker. Any thoughts for the bluebill eye? The bluebill head is black rustoleum. I was thinking some auto touch-up paint in yellow might work.

Any thoughts would be appreciated - just remember, it has to be cheap, easy, and easy to find in a town of 200 people! I just might even get these darn things in the water this weekend! Wahooo!

Thanks!
 
I don't have any close up pics of painted eyes, but here's how I do it.

Get some Testors yellow. Should be able to find it someplace.

Sort through some q tips and find some that are wound good without fibers hanging off. Dip it in the yellow and dab it on. Your looking more to leave a big drop of paint instead of just stamping a circle. Practice a bit before you do it on the head.

Same technique with the pupil, just don't load up as much paint and touch it lighter. Finishing touch is a white dot where the pupil meets the yellow, split that line at about 2 o'clock. A LITTLE white stripe on the bottom to represent the eyelid will set it off.

Good Luck!
 
Nick,
Painting an eye......simple. You can do just the yellow, either acrylic paint, finger nail polish or testors and then add a pupil. The pupil is so easy, it's almost toooooooooo easy. Put a dab of black on the pallette and then dip the back end of the brush into the paint. Dot the eye with that and you'll have a beautiful, round pupil. Put a little tick of white for the reflection and then use a glossing acrylic medium or clear nail polish.

Another cool way to do an eye is with a bit of brown on the top part of the eye with yellow on the underside. Put your pupil in there and a light tick of white and .......voila. If you go to my website: www.lockstockbarrell.com and do the the Gallery-Customers Dekes and look at the head and eyes that Bob Gohl does. I picked this technique up from him and I love it. It looks like a glass or real eye. Very cool.

Just a note. The base coating of the eye is easy to paint with either a Loew Cornell #7020-4 or 6 and another option is a small filbert. Both work very well for shaping the eye.
Lou
 
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Testers Model paint in gloss,about .50 cents.I use a 8-penny nail gently tip the head of the nail in paint and just touch the head where you want the eye to be, works for me .
 
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