Mother-of-Pearl effect in resin or paint?

[Birdie]

Anyone got any good recipes for creating a pearl effect in resin for pistol grips? Or just an effective paint job?

 

[Darth Detroit]

I once heard someone doing it as a clear coat proceedure.

 

[Birdie]

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I once heard someone doing it as a clear coat proceedure.
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Any details?

 

[Kerr Avon]

Well there's stuff called Tamiya "Pearlescent Clear Coat" I used on my Replicator. While the base coats were silver and blue, I imagine you could do something similar with other base coats to get the effect.

 

[Darth Detroit]

PM'd

 

[replicaprops]

Pearl ex pigments in clear resin
http://jacquard.tempdomainname.com/products/pearlex/

 

[Gigatron]

Hey Simon,

Right in front of me, I have a bottle of "DecoArt Dazzling Mettalics Elegant Finish - white pearl". I also have it in sky blue. As long as you really give the bottle a good shake to stir up the meattalic flake, the pearl effect is actually pretty good. I got it from an online vendor, but I don't remember which one.

It's easy and inexpensive. Look'em up and giv'em a try.

-Fred

 

[Birdie]

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Hey Simon,

Right in front of me, I have a bottle of "DecoArt Dazzling Mettalics Elegant Finish - white pearl". I also have it in sky blue. As long as you really give the bottle a good shake to stir up the meattalic flake, the pearl effect is actually pretty good. I got it from an online vendor, but I don't remember which one.

It's easy and inexpensive. Look'em up and giv'em a try.

-Fred
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Thanks guys

Hey Fred, ever notice that we joined on the same day :lol

 

[Gigatron]

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Hey Simon,

Right in front of me, I have a bottle of "DecoArt Dazzling Mettalics Elegant Finish - white pearl". I also have it in sky blue. As long as you really give the bottle a good shake to stir up the meattalic flake, the pearl effect is actually pretty good. I got it from an online vendor, but I don't remember which one.

It's easy and inexpensive. Look'em up and giv'em a try.

-Fred
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Thanks guys

Hey Fred, ever notice that we joined on the same day :lol
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Y'know, I noticed that about 2 weeks ago - maybe it explains why we've gotten along as well as we have .

In these days of limited-time registration, it's not uncommon for people to exact same days of registration. But back then, it was a free-for-all so it would be a lot less likely for 2 people to have the same exact date of registration.

Anyway, good luck with the grips and be sure to post pics when you're done.

-Fred

 

[Birdie]

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gigatron @ Dec 6 2006, 02:21 AM) [snapback]1372387[/snapback]

Hey Simon,

Right in front of me, I have a bottle of "DecoArt Dazzling Mettalics Elegant Finish - white pearl". I also have it in sky blue. As long as you really give the bottle a good shake to stir up the meattalic flake, the pearl effect is actually pretty good. I got it from an online vendor, but I don't remember which one.

It's easy and inexpensive. Look'em up and giv'em a try.

-Fred
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Thanks guys

Hey Fred, ever notice that we joined on the same day :lol
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Y'know, I noticed that about 2 weeks ago - maybe it explains why we've gotten along as well as we have .

In these days of limited-time registration, it's not uncommon for people to exact same days of registration. But back then, it was a free-for-all so it would be a lot less likely for 2 people to have the same exact date of registration.

Anyway, good luck with the grips and be sure to post pics when you're done.

-Fred
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Just picked up a tube of the DecoArt pearl paint on Ebay. If that doesn't work, I'm gonna try out Kerr's clear pearlecent method.

Will post results.

 

[bcstanding]

Alumilite sells dyes for use in resin casting. I haven't used their dyes, but I've used their silicone RTV and resin and they seem to be good products. I don't know if you'd have to use the porcelain powder in combination with the dye to get a pearlescent effect, but that might work.

 

[Birdie]

First attempt:

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