Where to place glow paint on F/L?

Hope this isn't in the wrong place but I was wondering of the many places glow products are used to mark your light?

Moreso paints and the like than ahedsive tapes or plastics...

I haven't applied glow paint before and I have some now and want to do things properly from the get go.

I have green, blue and yellow. I do not have a white base coat though, would white-out correction stuff/tipex/whatever you call it work as a base coat?

I don't know how the paint will take as its water based and already mixed. I don't have powder.

Around the emitter is usually the best place.

white-out is not a good base coat; I've heard Krylon (sp?) is OK.
around the black emitter base is where I've used it.

I think either Chop or CY made a bezel ring out of some plastic compound mixed with GID powder. Neat stuff. You can also paint some lines outside the light, etc., but those will get scratched out.

Around the rim of the reflector works well, next to the lens. This affects the flood aspect of the light more than the spot. Try on a cheap mag to test.

Awesome, thanks for the help guys!

I'm going to go all out and do the emitter base AND the rim.

Might do a fancy little combo of the three colours, three coencentric(major sp??) rings or something if there's room.
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Please post a pic when your done.
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I have some glow-paint coming soon and have been wondering where to put it on the Lion-Heart. If I have it on and drop it the light will turn off, only takes a slight tap. If it happened at night and fell into the grass would have to get another light to hunt with.

Figure to maybe put some around the emitter and somewhere around the whole body. Since the cub uses the same electronics I wonder if it will have the same turn-off problem? I'm not on the list but wondered about it.

I've done the inner bezel ring on Opalec NewBeam modded MiniMags with great results. Starting with a base coat of white nail polish followed by several coats of home-made glow paint (using the recipe of clear nail polish mixed with glow powder posted at flashlightreviews.com). Using the flashlight charges the glow material and it stays surprisingly bright for a long time (all night). To satisfy the department of redundancy department, I also wrap a stripe of glow tape around the body of the light.

These lights (with Kroll clicky's) are my go-to light for 90% of my needs and thusly modded, are fantastically useful and enjoyable flashlights.

Cheers,

Dave