Question about Alumilite

[gt64155]

I've decided to try and do some casting with Alumilite. I've been intrigued with this for a long time and never had the room to do it.
What materials can I use to color the blanks? Can I use acrylic paint or do I need to use the Alumilite dyes? What do most folks use to color the blanks?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Monty]

I don't think the acrylic paint will work since it's water based and Alumilite doesn't like water. Use either the Alumilite dyes or the powered dyes from Coastal Scents or Pearl Ex.

 

[ElMostro]

I've decided to try and do some casting with Alumilite. I've been intrigued with this for a long time and never had the room to do it.
What materials can I use to color the blanks? Can I use acrylic paint or do I need to use the Alumilite dyes? What do most folks use to color the blanks?
Thanks,
Bill

You can use the alumilite dyes, pearl-ex, coastal scents pigments or even Trans-tint dyes (from woodcraft) or if you really want to be adventurous you can use crushed charcoal, ground annato, or ground "mato" seeds.
Eugene.

 

[workinforwood]

Very important not to use acrylic paint, but oil base paint is no problem at all, works great. Rustoleum, small cans for $4 at ace hardware. Paint will give you solid colors, alumilite dyes are translucent. Pigments can be either, the more you add, the more solid the colors.

 

[edavisj316]

So can the paint and powdered pigments be used with both the clear and the white alumilite or just the clear?

 

[ElMostro]

You can use them in either but with the white you will not get the shimmer.