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Obviously, you're casting you own suit that you built from scratch... Right?... Now that that is out of the way, I would imagine you would have some issues with the paint being just on the surface of the clear resin, so if you didn't paint it right, you'd see the back of the paint through some parts. I could see some possibilities with tinting the resin. You'd want to do 3-4+ mixes at least. One with no pigment, then step them up to fairly dark pigment (the part that goes under the painted area). You would want to set your mix cups up with the right amount of pigment already in them as you will want to do the multiple pours at timed intervals. Basically, for a shorter pot life I would mix, pour, then immediately start mixing the next pigmented resin, then get that poured before the first pour has become too viscous to mix anymore, and so on down the line. Getting these to slightly fade into each other and form a fairly good gradient will be tough as you'll be filling a closed mold. But if you get it right, I could see a transparent-to-dark translucent model.

Haha sounds like a pain in the ass, but a very cool challenge. But you could always just cast one totally clear and see how it goes rather than try out my complications.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526309/5605990.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526309/5605990.page GMT GW plastic]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526309/5606051.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526309/5606051.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526309/5606059.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526309/5606059.page GMT lol]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526309/5608559.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/526309/5608559.page GMT