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Re: Some SBC questions
Worked like a charm. I dry mixed the powder and the SBC, thoroughly shook it in a bucket, then wet mixed it with pre-50/50 acrylic fortifier.
The only problem I had is that I massively overestimated my initial color mix. I kept adding more color in because I thought it looked really pale as a dry mix. Then I wet mixed it and it got REEEEEALLY dark. So then I desperately tried to dilute the dry mix by adding more SBC back in. Then I went TOOO dilute and the next wet batch was too pale!!! Third batch was Goldilocks though.
In the end, it worked great, but don't judge the color by the dry mix, it will look much more "powdery" and unsaturated than the wet product...and the final cured product will be somewhere in between the two. Try a few small patches in areas that you will add multiple layers to before you're done. Converge on the right color, then go for broke.
I'm not sure gray would look "dirtier", just darker. You could achieve the same effect by purchasing a darker tinted color powder in the first place. Bear in mind that lightness/darkness are not the same color dimension as saturation, so using gray vs. white SBC probably isn't the same thing as adding more of the same color to the SBC. Gray SBC will look darker, more color added to white SBC will look more saturated ("richer").
That's exactly why I preferred white, so I could most easily control the effects of the color by simply purchasing the required hue and lightness and mixing to the desired saturation.
Worked like a charm. I dry mixed the powder and the SBC, thoroughly shook it in a bucket, then wet mixed it with pre-50/50 acrylic fortifier.
The only problem I had is that I massively overestimated my initial color mix. I kept adding more color in because I thought it looked really pale as a dry mix. Then I wet mixed it and it got REEEEEALLY dark. So then I desperately tried to dilute the dry mix by adding more SBC back in. Then I went TOOO dilute and the next wet batch was too pale!!! Third batch was Goldilocks though.
In the end, it worked great, but don't judge the color by the dry mix, it will look much more "powdery" and unsaturated than the wet product...and the final cured product will be somewhere in between the two. Try a few small patches in areas that you will add multiple layers to before you're done. Converge on the right color, then go for broke.
I'm not sure gray would look "dirtier", just darker. You could achieve the same effect by purchasing a darker tinted color powder in the first place. Bear in mind that lightness/darkness are not the same color dimension as saturation, so using gray vs. white SBC probably isn't the same thing as adding more of the same color to the SBC. Gray SBC will look darker, more color added to white SBC will look more saturated ("richer").
That's exactly why I preferred white, so I could most easily control the effects of the color by simply purchasing the required hue and lightness and mixing to the desired saturation.
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