Drippy paint - Pearlising Mistake - Advice welcome

[StrawberryMeadow]

Hi everypony!

So I decided to take one of the 2 Gingerbread restores I've been working on and make her pearlised. I spent quite a long time touching up her symbols, cleaning her, touching up her eyeliner etc. She's Bald. Then I took her outside and used my crappy airbrush to all-over spray her with a coat of watered-down iridescent paint. This did, as I hoped, give her a lovely pearly coat, but it also dripped and formed big thick pearly blobs.

I tried to remove the blobs and fade out the removed sections so I could re-spray them, but of course it's really difficult to not overlap the new bits - which then causes some sections to have 3 layers of paint and some only 1 or 2, which means they look silly.

I literally can't remove the paint to start again without removing her symbols and I'm totally stuck as how to fix her.

Does anyone have any advice for me?

*bangs head on desk* 

[Snapdragon]

If it's watered-down, does that mean you could wash it off? I know acrylic paint is water-based; if that's what you're using, maybe a good scrub will get some of it off! Or maybe Magic Erasers?

I hope you can fix her!!

[Maniah]

I had this happen to me, but I wasn't using watered down paint. I was using Createx airbrush paints. I was a little to liberal with the spraying, and it ran. In some spots I was able to sand away the bumps with a very fine grit sandpaper ( I cannot remember the grit) and then spray a faint coat over that area to revive the shine.

[DaffyDilly]

I had this happen to me, but I wasn't using watered down paint. I was using Createx airbrush paints. I was a little to liberal with the spraying, and it ran. In some spots I was able to sand away the bumps with a very fine grit sandpaper ( I cannot remember the grit) and then spray a faint coat over that area to revive the shine.

Same here. If you spray lightly enough around the edges it will blend in - I've done this before and it looked fine afterwards.

I am not an airbrushing expert, but I believe that paint runs because it is either sprayed too close to the pony or for too long in one spot, so a couple of quick light coats when the affected areas are sanded should do the trick!

[Colorscapesart]

As suggested, some ofthe highest grit (smoothest) sandpaper you can find might be the trick.

[MnDancer]

If you used acrylics, you can strip the whole thing and start over by removing it with rubbing alcohol. This will not affect the symbols since it is a different kind of paint. Rite aid carries alcohol wipes (like baby wipes) that come in really handy for this.