Apparently the back just needed a little more time. I had other things going on for the past couple of days, but I returned to the JK-1 last night and the gumminess had cleared up. The back was fully dry, perhaps a little slicker than the front, but ready to go, I think. Just too much impatience on my part.
I can't believe that I almost scrapped this one at one point because I thought it was going to be horrible. It looks great. I can't really capture the color with my flash inside. All of my photos come out looking this turquoise color, but it flips from a deep metallic blue to a dark purple in good light. I'll try to get it out in sunlight at some point and see if I can get better photos. There are definite flaws in the paint, one I'm particularly angry at myself about, but they're not incredibly noticeable without a close inspection. On to the polish.
I had mixed results with my headstock logos. I'm pretty happy with the way the MM-1 (pictured below) came out, but the JK-1 headstock is giving me some trouble. Since I painted it to match the body, I thought I'd go with a light gray, which looked good on the paper, but when I slid the decal off the backing on to the headstock, you couldn't see it at all. I guess the inking was too faint for the gray to show. I'm going to try with a darker gray, which I'm guessing won't have enough contrast with the blue/purple, and a cream, which I'm guessing will have the same issue as the dark gray. I really don't want to go with a bright color that will clash with an already pretty flashy paint job. Anyone got tips for getting a waterslide that works on a dark background?
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