Different Cactus Churchill

[gerryr]

This is the second one of these I've tried and finally got it right. This is one of Curtis's cactus blanks. After drilling I polished the inside of the tubes to get them smooth and also to make them a bit bigger to easily accept 4 coats of paint. I then painted the inside of the blanks with 2 coats of Fasflip Scarabeous made by Parma International followed by 2 coats of Fasblack, also by Parma. The black is necessary for the base color to "flip." These are water based paints developed for Lexan model bodies. The Faslip paints are metallic, this one changes from green to blue depending on how the light is striking it. You can see some of the green along the centerline of the pen. It's interesting that the photo shows it as blue, but just holding it in normal room light, it's green. Titanium gold Churchill rollerball.

Comments welcome and thanks to those who do comment.

 

[DCBluesman]

Whoa, baby, that's sweet! Great photo, also!

 

[louisbry]

Wow, you really raised the bar on this one.

 

[wayneis]

Now thats sweet looking.

Wayne

 

[LanceD]

Great job Gerry. Wonderful pen and photo.

 

[ahoiberg]

looks nice gerry. may i ask how you polished the inside of the blank?

 

[gerryr]

I hired some elves to crawl in there with sandpaper.[:0]
I wrapped sandpaper around one of my HF transfer punches and just sanded away. If I were to make very many like this I would definitely need to figure out a faster way to do it.

 

[Ligget]

Beautiful, the best I`ve seen in a long time![]

 

[TAFFJ]

Gerry, That is a cracker!!

 

[OKLAHOMAN]

Gerry, thats just fantastic looking. Where are you getting the Faslip, I need to try that on my cactus.

 

[jeffj13]

Gerry,

Great looking pen. The churchill is my favorite pen and you have made a beauty.

jeff

 

[PenWorks]

Very nice Gerry. The colors of the pen are great.
Is that a cracked coupler I see []

 

[GaryMGg]

Very very nice indeed. Winston would be proud. [][]

 

[rhahnfl]

Some more stuff for my files to try later on!!![][] You did a great job!!!

 

[TBone]

Excellent job. I love the way it changes colors.

 

[angboy]

Please, please, please, share with us all where to get some of this paint from!!! I'm begging! The pen is great!!

 

[Fred]

Gerry, congratulations on a most excellent pen. At first glance I thought, "Wow, that's a busy laser engraved pen!" Is it not amazing how nature holds so many hidden secrets? []