Glass paint - tinting your Time Rotor.

[warmcanofcoke]

Has anyone tried glass paint to tint their time rotor before?

saw a tutorial.

Does anyone have experience with this technique? Which is the best Glass Stain?

[tony farrell]

Steve/Fivefingeredstyre has used something similar but I'm afraid his post on Tardis Builders eludes me at the moment.
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[handofomega]

Krylon at one time had a stain glass spray paint that I have had success with on other projects.   I cannot say if it would work with plexi-glass, but it works fantastically on real glass.  

A Google search will turn up the Krylon products.

[fivefingeredstyre]

I used an airbrush and Tamiya x-25 Clear Green acrylic paint.



The problem with any clear paint is that it is a little hazy, but once the lights are inside it shouldn't show up too much...

[warmcanofcoke]

Well....I think I'll buy some innexpensive glass and buy some products and do some tests.

It might make a neat little article. I don't have access to a kiln, and I don't have an airbrush. Time for experiments - FOR SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


meathod two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq2xXcGsbSc

It involves cooking the glass in an oven.

[warmcanofcoke]

I used an airbrush and Tamiya x-25 Clear Green acrylic paint.



The problem with any clear paint is that it is a little hazy, but once the lights are inside it shouldn't show up too much...

Cool!

[galacticprobe]

Wow. I take it, then, that you're using those 4-inch diameter real glass tube-like things they have in craft stores? (I think I've even seen them in Target.) I know they come in different lengths up to about 2 feet or so. They do have nice thick walls, I'll give them that, but I'd still be afraid of breakage. (If only plastic or acrylic ones were to be found. I even checked Tap Plastics - who sell green tubes - but they seem to have reduced their inventory; they used to have 4-inch diameter tubes - at 6-foot lengths which would have given you all three tubes for the column innards - but now their largest diameter for colored tubes is 2 inches.)

Baking glass in the oven? Not something I'd want to try - or anything the wife would even let me try - but I am sure interested to see how that turns out if you try it.

Dino.

[warmcanofcoke]

I have gone out and purchased a number of transparent glass paints to start some tests.





I'm going to find some glass and acrylic materials and try out some paints.