Painting Q tips

[Paul Hawkins 2]

What's the best paint to turn a silly useless 2 inch bit of red sight tip into a foot long of proper white quiver tip?!
Emulsion isnt brilliant when you play a lot of fish with the tip in the water!

 

[Joskin]

A mate of mine is a painter by trade and got himself a tin of iluminous while paint. It looks superb in low light and darkness. I am not sure exactly what the paint is but it is the sort they use to paint fire exits etc so that they glow in the dark.

 

[paul williams 2]

I just use tippex!.

 

[Wolfman Woody]

Humbrol water based paint from modelling shops.

 

[Sgt Bash]

Humbrol Glow luminous enamel from toysrus or any hobby/arts/craft shop, about ?3 for 14ml pot.

 

[BAZ (Angel of the North) aka Fester]

Tipex for me too. You can allways take it off at a later date.

 

[Evan]

Humbrol is good stuff..... while it remains available.

It wasn't just Airfix that went down into receivership a couple of months ago.

It was Humbrol, the owners of Airfix, who went down first and took Airfix with them, not the other way round as I at first assumed.

I found this out to my cost while trying to get hold of a pot of flourescent orange Humbrol enamel to tip off some floats. No way jose etc - if anyone can lay hands on some Flouro orange then I would be very very grateful....

So best advice, grab whatever supplies of Humbrol stuff you might need now and in the future now and when you see it.....

 

[chavender]

i use Plasti-kote Fast Dry Enamel in little spray cans i use flat white for a undercoat and gloss white as a top coat and a coat of clear , they only cost a couple of quid each can theres also brush-on paint.
sprayed quiver section
and here touching up the quiver section
me spraying quiver section

 

[Grant Lever]

just wonder why you want a white quiver.imho black is the best colour,especially after dark when viewed against the sky.

 

[chavender]

i prefer white as it shows up better against a darkish backbround features like tree's ect and against dark moonless night sky's and they show up well in bright moonlight and in low daylight light or against a gray cloudy night sky i'll use the avon section instead,i also prefer a longer quiver section as oposed to a short push in type especially those black ones with just a different colour 2" near to the tip,or short white ones where they bend at a different rate to the carrier section and end up looking like a crook and at worse cause a flat spot and poor line angles as the joining point is usually between two eyes.i prefer longer taper quivers that give a more progressive bend (to help cushion the lunges better of fighting fish)that start at a eye and has the right number of eyes to get a smooth curve without any awkward line angles so the line follows the curve of the rod.

 

[Paul Hawkins 2]

Thanks for the advice gents.

 

[Budgie Burgess]

When building/repairing/re ringing QT's I use a matt spray paint sold as a car primer.I find matt seems to show up better in moon/star light and with isotopes.Yes not varnishing it or adding a gloss top coat does mean its harder to keep clean but Im prepared to live with that.

If you have an allready rung/built tip you can use plumbers PTFE tape.Wraps round nice and thin shows up well and as no adhesive is required easy to remove/renew.