As promised, photos of the new Glow In The Dark kits I am working on.
A quick test casting a shadow with my hand and the GITD was bright enough to be captured by the camera. This is impressive stuff.
Notice the white colour to the rubber instead of the snot colour it normally is.
A simulation behind a clear sole. This looks nice.
And a brightness test next some of the old stuff. If just 5% increase makes this much of a difference, imagine what it might be like at 25% or even upto 50%.
So I de-molded these a bit early for the testing. They were not really going to be ready until midnight my time, but I needed to see what they were going to do a few hours ago.
3 things I have done differently from my previous GITD kits -
1. I had machined parts made up and molded those to allow each new part to be exact.
2. I added white pigment to the clear + GITD powder to make the rubber white and not have that "custard yellow" look to it. It is still slightly off white, but not yellow.
3. I increased the amount of GITD powder from 15% to 20% and I want to push this even higher. In the end of the day, the more powder, the more light absorbing power it will have and the brighter it will be (refer to image 3)
And a video