I voted Ozora but Kayadama Alpha clear is very tacky out the box, but then breaks into a really nice slip/stick after a short while!
-dead thread sorry- I don’t know if it was the paint necessarily, but I had a Sean N’ Ricks custom (one of the landscapes sold on kusa), I dropped it in the ocean, and the got my sunscreen hands all over it. When it dried in the sun it was so sticky I was able to a lunar eclipse for the first time. It wore off after a while, but during the vacation it was one of the most honed paint jobs I’d ever played.
The last two cushion clear tamas I've gotten have been insanely grippy, and not necessarily in a good way. Lighthouses are actually really hard to get because anything less than a perfect pull up will wobble off. Anyone else had this experience? I'm hoping they get less grippy.
Anyone voting for something that isn't Sourmash, has clearly never played an OG mash dama. @goenKendama is right, Sweets aTack definitely a contender though!
I have a sourmash that sticks just like the aTack in the video @goenKendama sent. Really sticky. I actually haven't played an aTack for myself yet.
My A-ttacks never really got the play required to make them super sticky, they have quite a long break in period. But once you start to see the grain of the wood through the paint, she’s just getting good. My friend left his purple A-tack out in the rain, and even on an old F2 ken she still has lunar flip potential just because of how sticky it became. (not 100% sure if color mattered, but if memory serves, fades seemed to be stickier, and some solids seemed to break in better than others) (my pink and white solid atacks never really reached that sticky zone where eclipses become possible, my friends who had, green purple and a Rasta fade had incredibly sticky damas, it could be a thickness issue, like per batch stickiness might vary, but all in all it’s not bad paint imo, just far less consistent than cushion clear.
@Sam Strohmyer paint batches do seem to vary on nearly every brand/type of sticky paint I've tried or heard about from our guys. Seems it takes a bit of "weird science" to get it dialed in. Apparently weather on the day they're painted and drying also plays a big part as well. As for Rasta fades, those have been my go-to for a couple of years now.
I'm just going to hoard the last couple of aTack rastas and hope for a reintroduction on down the line. I wish I'd grabbed a couple of the Cushion Clear over aTack when they were out. (where's that facepalm smiley)
I've never found cush clear that sticky. I mean it's great and all but imo I don't understand the hype
Ran a search for a different post a bit a go and came across these threads that while not a census might give you some more food for thought. Paint Chipping Paint Types Paint- Intermediate play / long term slay Best Paint Paint Consistency? Favorite paint type Sweets tama paint techniques
Sweets paint techniques (the bottom link) has some pictures that illustrate what I was trying to describe about Attacks, Also Theres a great topic regarding to changes between F2-F3. I believe the Rasta Atack was already redone in one of the earliest V-series so IDK about them doing another repro soon, Alternatively I think YOYO-Expert has some fades still available, you have to pay extra for a painted ken if you want a rasta tho... : ( gl on your hunt for the 'magic dama' @FatHeadedHorse