Teased in the first part of this report, here is the final outcome of the art design. I pre-sketched the robot with a pencil and then finished it cautiously with a black permanent marker.
The kit comes with a wooden guitar body already prepared for painting. So my first task is to get some basic colour on it. Here I have chosen a plain white as the basic colour with the idea to further add some handmade drawings.
The raw body with the pickup holes masked. Wood is probably Poplar or Limewood, but no info given by the manufacturer.
First step was to mask the parts I do not want to get coloured with some tape as seen above. For painting I used a simple spray paint from the local hardware store. After a first session the result was not that even and too much of the wood structure was still visible. Continue reading “Project Guitar Kit SG Style – Part 1: Painting”