A client that owns a childrens theme park wants to create a haunted house and is looking to use glow in the dark on the walls. He wants to know if it comes in colors or just yellow.
I also have to create a childs room which includes a giant tree trunk that runs up one corner of the room with branches extending out across the ceiling. All the walls are to be painted (muraled) and here the client wants glow in the dark 'stars' to show up at night.
Anyone know where to get such a product, or recommend something that I can use as a substitute?
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HOK makes a glow in the dark paint but I don't think that's what you are looking for, at least not in the haunted house application. Any glow in the dark product has a short time of actually glowing, maybe twenty minutes with a good "charge" of light, plus, it's not a real strong glow and requires a really dark room to be seen,. For the haunted house you probably need florescents lit with a black light. On the stars, my stepdaughter had some plastic glow in the dark stars stuck all over her room, don't know a source, but they shouldn't be too hard to find.
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I've done a fair amount of work for night clubs, so here's what I've learned. There are a few different products you can use. It sounds like you'll actually need a paint that is luminous under black light for the first project. "Glow in the dark" paint only glows after exposure to full light or to black light. If you have a dark interior (for the ride) then there wont be any light for the glow paint to "store up". So, if you're going to have black-lights going to "activate" the paint, then you also have the option of using flourescent paints. Flourescent paints are not the same as Day-Glo (those are pigmented for use in bright sunlight to look bright). Flourescents look bright in daylight, or in artificial light, but they really pop under blacklight (ultraviolet). if you use those, then you can get lots of colors. 1-Shot's flourescents are pretty nice -- they go on dead flat. There are also some companies that make theatrical flourescents (cost more, but you can actually mix the colors to do shading and create mid-tone colors).
For the stars, the easiest is probably to buy a set of glow in the dark stars and glue them to the wall. the glow plastic works a LOT better than the glow paint. For about $6 you can buy a bag of stars (try Toys R Us, etc). These are non-toxic and made for use in kids' rooms.
If you don't like that option, Krylon has a consumer branded paint called "GLOWZ". (Product KDH5220). Its water based acryllic and sticks to all kinds of surfaces. You can use it on vinyl banners even. Its that yellow/green color. Its pretty cheap - about $5 for an 8 ounce (half pint) can. you can find it at Krylon.com
Flourescent and GLOWS paints should always be used over a WHITE basecoat for maximum effect. There are some ultraviolet paints that work on dark backgrounds, but they aren't as bright as when they're on a white background.
I hope that helped.
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The paint From HOK will not work for your application. I think the black lights and fluorescent paint is the way to go for the spook house. In the kids room you could use FDC's phosfluorescent vinyl It glows in the dark after it has stored light energy. Hope this helps
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Ditto what George said. I'd realy think that flourescents with blacklights would be the way to go here. With the luminescent paints that I'm farmiliar with, you do need a to allow them a considerable amount of time in full light for them to "charge up". Not really practical here I think.
The HOK stuff, while very cool, is a part of an automotive coating system and really must be treated as such. I wouldn't fool with it unless you have some experience with these sorts of finishes, very bad hings can happen with them.
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Got to agree with George on this one. The stars are available at Toys-R-Us or Wal-Mart. They come with a putty type adhesive that holds well, but removes easily. My daughter had the stars on her ceiling for over 5 years, we removed them with no problems, and did not have to repaint the ceiling. The bag is full of various sizes from .75" to 2".
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I'll suggest the black light process to my client. I don't think the haunted house would have "closed for recharging" time, so it would have to be a paint/lighting combo.
The kids room....trip to Wal-mart.
-------------------- Shirley Carron Black Sheep Designs 184 John St. N. Arnprior,On.,Canada shirleyc@magma.ca 613-623-7053 Posts: 503 | From: Arnprior, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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