A good method for dying parts

[banana92]

I was looking into information to dying parts, and took a look into Rit dye and acetone (to unintended results)and was wondering if there is a good way to either reach lego like colors with dyes, or melt down and reuse broken abs parts of the intended color and a cast

 

Mask on matoro mctoran

 

Http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/banana92/Dyed-masks/20160923_170216.jpg

 

I meant to dye a rau mask black, but instead achived a color close to sand blue (which is totally fine) the mask however is bendable after an acetone bath which didn't leech the color I had hoped (however, I'm quite the rainbow right now) I may try the boiling water trick to, O hope it is easier on the plastic, since the pipe cleaner I used to hold the masks submerged left a bit of an impression, let me know what has worked for you or methods you have experimented with.

Edited September 23, 2016 by banana92

[jchavoya]

I was looking into information to dying parts, and took a look into Rit dye and acetone (to unintended results)and was wondering if there is a good way to either reach lego like colors with dyes, or melt down and reuse broken abs parts of the intended color and a cast

 

Mask on matoro mctoran

 

Http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/banana92/Dyed-masks/20160923_170216.jpg

 

I meant to dye a rau mask black, but instead achived a color close to sand blue (which is totally fine) the mask however is bendable after an acetone bath which didn't leech the color I had hoped (however, I'm quite the rainbow right now) I may try the boiling water trick to, O hope it is easier on the plastic, since the pipe cleaner I used to hold the masks submerged left a bit of an impression, let me know what has worked for you or methods you have experimented with.

I've always been curious if something like this could be done! I have no experience with this unfortunately, and usually opt for just spray painting pieces. If you have the dye, or the pieces however, would you be able to dye a ruru yellow for me? Not sure how much you would want to charge for it, But I would love to get a fake yellow ruru to complete my sand tarakava replica.

[Ta-metru_defender]

This sounds pretty cool. You may wanna start a topic in Artwork documenting the process and various attempts/results.

[banana92]

I've always been curious if something like this could be done! I have no experience with this unfortunately, and usually opt for just spray painting pieces. If you have the dye, or the pieces however, would you be able to dye a ruru yellow for me? Not sure how much you would want to charge for it, But I would love to get a fake yellow ruru to complete my sand tarakava replica.

I may try, I might want to get down a method with a mask less expensive then a white ruru, like a white akaku first and go from there, I am thinking of using warm water in my mext attempt and possibly making a stand that can hold six masks at once, and submerge it, and if possible, one that rotates automatically, if I have time lol

 

Also I do plan on eventually documenting my results and proven methods as well as how much of one color makes a mask of that color (for example, I used black dye on a light blue rau and got a samd blue rau, almost a perfect color match, but damaged the mask with acetone) I may make a batch of light blue to sand blue masks here soon

[jchavoya]

 

I've always been curious if something like this could be done! I have no experience with this unfortunately, and usually opt for just spray painting pieces. If you have the dye, or the pieces however, would you be able to dye a ruru yellow for me? Not sure how much you would want to charge for it, But I would love to get a fake yellow ruru to complete my sand tarakava replica.

I may try, I might want to get down a method with a mask less expensive then a white ruru, like a white akaku first and go from there, I am thinking of using warm water in my mext attempt and possibly making a stand that can hold six masks at once, and submerge it, and if possible, one that rotates automatically, if I have time lol

 

Also I do plan on eventually documenting my results and proven methods as well as how much of one color makes a mask of that color (for example, I used black dye on a light blue rau and got a samd blue rau, almost a perfect color match, but damaged the mask with acetone) I may make a batch of light blue to sand blue masks here soon

 

Yeah, white ruru's are pretty expensive. How do you think it would work with a light grey one? Would be a lot cheaper, even if it comes out slightly darker. Your methods sound interesting! This seems pretty cool!

Edited September 27, 2016 by jchavoya

[banana92]

I'm quite sure it would be darker since yellow is a fairly pure and vibrant color, I think getting a method down for white parts would be the route to go, the only thing I have noticed is that different colors react differently to the dye, I tried dying a white akaku, tan komau, and light blue rau, the akaku and rau both tool slight damage from the acetone while the tan kau suffered no damage and seemed more ridged (granted the rau has become much stronger now, I imagine the mask has to dry over night to leech out any left over acetone) I would also say that tan took the least amount of dye but also took it very evenly, the rau is my favorite since it is almost a perfect match to sand blue and I plan on making a batch of sand blue masks in the future, we will have to cross pur fingers about the yellow ruru, the process is messy, but I as much as you want it to succeed

[jchavoya]

I'm quite sure it would be darker since yellow is a fairly pure and vibrant color, I think getting a method down for white parts would be the route to go, the only thing I have noticed is that different colors react differently to the dye, I tried dying a white akaku, tan komau, and light blue rau, the akaku and rau both tool slight damage from the acetone while the tan kau suffered no damage and seemed more ridged (granted the rau has become much stronger now, I imagine the mask has to dry over night to leech out any left over acetone) I would also say that tan took the least amount of dye but also took it very evenly, the rau is my favorite since it is almost a perfect match to sand blue and I plan on making a batch of sand blue masks in the future, we will have to cross pur fingers about the yellow ruru, the process is messy, but I as much as you want it to succeed

Yes, I imagine dark grey wouldn't come out the right color. I forgot about tan though! Tan might actually come out the best since its the lightest non-white one. Hopefully if you perfect a method for white in other masks though, then it might actually be worth trying a white ruru. I really hope one way or another this works out though. It sounds like a really interesting process.