Fort Worth, TX
I got a translite with a few spots where the paint or print has rubbed leaving the clear material only. Has anyone successfully touched up a translite and if so can you use acrylic paint?
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It is hard to make it look perfect. The best I have been able to do is color match with acrylic paint and then paint a white backer. I also coat with a varnish to keep the acrylic in place. I have yet to make one invisible, but a hole in the artwork is way more noticeable to me than a color blob.
Quoted from Capper96:Is it a special type of paint that they used or perhaps ink?
yes. Ink. You can get a good result from an airbrush as far as transparency is concerned. but anywhere you build layers of paint will transmit light differently.
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