Thread: Colouring with pigment

Hopefully a bit of a quick one.

I have tried casting a few bits of 'waste wood' in PR using pearl ex powders as colorants. They come out looking quite good, but as soon as I go to turn them I start noticing issues.

My first attempt I could see the brass tube quite clearly through the resin, so with my second attempt, I painted the tube with nail polish.

This worked, kinda...
But I can still see basically just the coloured tube with some very weak coloured translucent resin around it

I guess the only other thing I can think is that I am not putting enough pigment into my PR at the initial mix, or am I turning the resin too thin (only going to bushes so I don't think that's the problem)

I haven't actually measured out how much I put in, just go by how it looks. Do people have a preferred way of knowing when the right depth of colour is obtained or is it usually by eye, and I need to just be a little more heavy handed??

Thanks a bunch in advance

Gab