Can’t explain what the hell I was thinking.
Other than my lack of confidence in handling a tinted lam!
Making my first “Little man on Wheels” tribute board.
So far just foam and resin yellow tint with red opaque rails.
Don’t know if I’ll go about the next one the same…
Help!
Can I use rattle can acrylic spray to help seal the yellow and red bleed,
prioir to lam job…
Thanks
Hey Matty it looks good to me, I don’t see any bleed? Plus, the color is on, so are you asking about sealing the tape before you paint, or??? If its just a matter of sealing color, I don’t think the tinted or colored resin needs any seal. I have sealed paint with acrylic, but I try to avoid anything out of a rattle can, I have used polycrylic clear floor finish with good results, but I glass with epoxy so not sure about polyester resin.
Unless thats acrylic in that can i wouldnt use it for poly resin. I’ve had color bleeds like yours on certain colors even with extra catalyst to make it go off good. I usually throw on a very thin cheater to seal first color up before second color if its bleeding. If you did the red first which i assume you did, id either put on the cheater clear before pulling tape or retape the line after pulling the first layed tape. That way you dont end up sealer off the white foam before the yellow is applied. As you probably know, first color to hit foam wins so if clear hits white first , yellow wont stain. Im guessing it would be the same if acrylic is used. The acrylic is going to seal the white foam if sprayed on and wont allow the yellow to stain. Need to tape off the white area next to red before applying acrylic. This is assuming thats a red pigmented foam stain and yellow tint lam? Or both stains?
First off I would like to say…
Thank you Huck and Bluefinsurf for jumping in!
My failing is (as always) not being able communicate effectively.
This is a foam tint (Lam resin) no glass yet.
I did the yellow tint first then the opaque red on top.
And that is exactly what I meant…
“Don’t know if I’ll go about the next one the same…”
Bottom-line besides fearing the Yellow tint lam as I do, it also would force having to do Red rails after hot coat sanding.
Note:
Debating on adding black pinline (like my test scrap).
Being of little patience, I grabbed my test scrap and just experimented.
No coat
One coat acrylic rattle can spray.
Two coats acrylic rattle can spray.
Lam’d up all 3.
! no bleed on the “none”
No bleed on all, and I let it soak.
The lam adhesion is best on none
And declines with more coats.
Now back to more fun shit…
cool! I haven’t had any bleed issues with clear over colored resin, its usually when applying the colored resin over tape that the bleed issues come up. The board is looking great, be easy to spot that one in the lineup!
Yeah I get some pigment bleed when I use rich tints . It’s just a part of the game . It happens when you are working the resin into your cloth. I find if I let it cure for a day or two before lamination I’m good.