Painting over stickers...

victorludorum

Has anyone ever tried doing this? Does it end in a big old mess?

I'm wondering if it might be better to prepare a collage on photoshop and get a print done on a thin adhesive plastic, but I've no idea if it's possible.

It's for an el cheapo guitar, so nothing's going to get totally ruined by this idea, but it'd be nice to know if anyone has already tried anything similar. Cheers :-)

paulnb57

Im a bit confused what you intend to do, do you mean clear lacquer over stickers?

victorludorum

Yes

ICBM

I've seen a couple done like that, with newpaper/magazine cuttings stuck on and covered with varnish. Not that neat up close, but serviceable enough and properly arty-looking.

pintspiller

I've painted over water transfers with nail varnish before. Not the neatest but ok

victorludorum

I'm thinking Panini stickers for a bit of vintage football action. When it were a man's game and all that ;-)

paulnb57

I did this Comicaster years ago, crappy strat body, 3 strings, open G, slide.....

 The front back and headstock were done with copies of comics from tinternet, copod and pasted in miniature on the pc, and all filled an A4 paper size collage, printed on clear waterslide paper, a couple of thin coats of lacquer to seal the water based ink, applied to the guitar and sealed in place with. ore lacquer, applying 2 A4 size waterslide transfers was fun!

It worked very well and was a bit of fun!

You could scan and print your football cards and apply then individually or as a collage......

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii21/paulnb57/image_zpsd7703b71.jpg

WezV

Original John Birch logos are a metal foil sticker just lacquered over.  Almost all of them curl or peel slightly over the years.

stickers like that tend to have a fair layer of adhesive which will never sit great under lacquer.  You might get away with it more if the adhesive is thin and hard

waterslides work much better under lacquer

victorludorum

It seems that scanning and making a waterslide is the best way here. Thanks for all the input chaps :-)