I generally cast with alumilite, I use testors oil paints. The testors paints give a solid color, where as the pearlex powders are translucent. If you mix the two together, you get a more solid color but still has the pearl. The more paint, the more solid the color. No doubt there comes a point when you can use too much paint. With alumilite, it would require far more paint to be too much because alumilite chemically bonds with paint, and I don't think PR does, or at least not in the way I'm talking. IE..if you paint inside your mold, then pour clear alumilite in the mold, the alumilite will bond chemically to the paint, meaning the alumilite will have that color on the outside of it and it will not scrape off unless you go pretty deep with your scratching. This is one of the special traits of that product. So you can make lets say a doll head, you paint the mold, not the head. You pour the mold and have a perfect head, pre-painted, but the paint won't flake off and it's super shiny because it has just come out of the silicone mold. When alumilite is sanded, that's when it becomes harder to recover the gloss.
