Epoxy Inlay on Paint

[Joe O'Leary]

I want to make some small inlays of colored epoxy on a surface that will be painted. The only way I see to do it is to paint the surface, seal it with shellac, wax the inlay areas, apply epoxy, scrape excess and remove wax with spirits.

Think this will work? Any other suggestions/ ideas?

The paint I'd like to try is milk paint.

Joe

[Doug Shepard]

I would think (but dont know for sure) the paint would have a tougher time sticking to the epoxy. Maybe inlay the epoxy, sand it smooth, then mask it off and paint. If any excess bleeds past the tape onto the epoxy, scrape it with a razor blade or exacto knife to remove it??

[Jim Becker]

Try some liquid mask from a hobby store...

[Joe O'Leary]

The inlays are 1/4" circles. Kind of hard to mask.

[David Epperson]

The inlays are 1/4" circles. Kind of hard to mask.

You know what they say "If it was easy, anyone could do it".
I would still think that you could trim tape masks to fit the circles. I'm thinking an exacto knife in a compass frame or something similar.

[George Bowen]

hole punch the masking tape? Those are about a 1/4".