Squishy
Queen Clown Slayer
In regards to the vid. Edd Hubbs looks to me to be using an opaque white paint, (which is how I do it too). You can tell because when he adds the second layer, it is covering over the layer underneath. If it was trans, you could still that layer below.
A brief summary of trans and opaques for anyone following this who doesn't know:-
Opaque - Will cover up what is below, and will reach its optimum colour density and then not change. So you can thin it, and it will act almost like a trans but more layers will just make it a solid, reaching the colour on the bottle and going no farther.
Transparent - Does not cover the layer below, and the more layers you add, the deeper the colour becomes, so a sepia for example will eventually become black looking. Also, without an intercoat between layers, colours can bleed into each other, so spraying yellow over red will give orange. This gives you endless colour combos developing directly in your work.
Just a simple explanation, but hopefully you get the drift.
Anyway, back to the plot - his second layer covers the first. If you are trying to recreate that effect with trans, it will not look the same. Plus, as has been said, fire is one of those looks easy things, that is actually pretty hard to do, so don't beat yourself up on that score.
A brief summary of trans and opaques for anyone following this who doesn't know:-
Opaque - Will cover up what is below, and will reach its optimum colour density and then not change. So you can thin it, and it will act almost like a trans but more layers will just make it a solid, reaching the colour on the bottle and going no farther.
Transparent - Does not cover the layer below, and the more layers you add, the deeper the colour becomes, so a sepia for example will eventually become black looking. Also, without an intercoat between layers, colours can bleed into each other, so spraying yellow over red will give orange. This gives you endless colour combos developing directly in your work.
Just a simple explanation, but hopefully you get the drift.
Anyway, back to the plot - his second layer covers the first. If you are trying to recreate that effect with trans, it will not look the same. Plus, as has been said, fire is one of those looks easy things, that is actually pretty hard to do, so don't beat yourself up on that score.