Thread: UV Full Moon

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OK everyone, I hope someone with some experience with UV paints can help me with this.

I want to do a 3 to 4 foot diameter full moon painted a nice orange Harvest Moon color and then illuminate it with a couple home made multi LED spots.

Question 1: Can I use a thin grey paint airbrushed over the UV paint to get the shading and craters, or will it completely kill the UV glow?

Question 2: Can anyone suggest a good color and supplier for the paint?

This prop will be for outdoor use and needs to last about 25 days, will I have to cover it each day to preserve the UV properties?

Thanks all.

The grey paint will kill the UV effect. Only fluorescent paint will show under UV light, so you are going to be limited to fluorescent orange or yellow-orange. http://www.goldenpaints.com/products...cent/fluor.php I would choose the color and then use very thin black or grey lines to outline craters and cracks. Acrylic paint should make it through the month.

Finding that much paint to cover that big of an area may get costly. I would suggest cutting a disk of cardboard or other light material into the shape you want with a luminescent fabric/material streched over it. Then use the grey paint for shading and craters on the fabric.

Hope this helps, Marc V.

wildfire paint has a complete line of uv reactive paint, shipping can be costly though

http://www.wildfirefx.com/wfi/amazing/index.asp?url=IND
also can be purchased here also: http://www.blacklight.com/

Depending on how transperent is your uv paint paint the craters first useing blacks and grays then paint it all with uv. Also I went to an art supply store for my florecent paints paid 5 bucks for 20 oz