Quote Originally Posted by mooneye777
I am starting to mess with an air brush I bought 5 years ago. I taped and cut a checker flag, and flame scheme on my work thermus. I of coarse got real excited and slapped clear over the paint a couple hours later. I learned that the set up time may be longer now, as they began to run and mix the colors together. Thats why I guess I did the thermus first, and not my car. Any way I love the ghost flames and was wondering how they get that effect from the paint? Any insight of minor explanation would be greatly appreciated.

Ghost flames (or what most people call ghost flames) are nothing more than a lighter shoot of paint. Because they are transparently (is that a word?) painted ( a Veeery light coat) or in a lighter color sprayed out, they give the illusion of 'ghosting' because the paint is transparent or you can see through the spray.

Let me know if its confusin- trying to explain in text is hard when you are good at writing stuff.

just curious why you spent that amount of time on a thermos?