Hey I am a beginner shaper. I have shaped and glassed about 10 boards. For my last 4 boards or so I have played around with resin tints. My question is the online sites that sell tint seem to only have basic colors: red, blue, yellow, orange ect. Online I see some pretty awesome tinted glass jobs that I don’t think I can match like a light blue, tan or olive. I’ve tried to get a nice light baby blue just by using less of my regular royal blue but it doesn’t look the same. It just looks like less saturated royal blue.
Do any of you know where to get some more specialty resin tint colors for Poly resin? Or are boards like Almond surfboards for instance just mixing the basic primary colors to get their special tints?
These boards below:
Mini simmons i mixed blue and yellow for the green
Well I know foamez carries about 15 or so various colors of tint/pigments.
I havnt tried them but mafia makes a ton of colors - shapers supply I believe.
I work with a hand full of colors and just mix them to make what I want ( I should add that I mix custom colors all day at my 9-5 so it may come a little easier to dial in my desired colors but it’s not all that difficult)
mixing pigments and tints basically makes it a pigment in whatever color you just made. Maybe if you only use a tiny bit of pigment it would still be transparent, not sure. This is blue tint mixed with white pigment
I use both, pastes (fluid) and pigments (powder).
Some sastes are opaque, some are tints, my pigments have categorized opaquness levels (glazing, transluzent, opaque, very opaque).
I mix all of them all the time do produce the desired colours.
Using a good amount of apquae will give an opaque colour, no matter with what kind of transluszent coulour you mix it.
(“Opaque wins”)
For example, this is
orange pigment powder categorzied as opaque
black paste opaque, only a very small amount used (apr. 1 drop)
two kinds of blue pigment powder mixed, one is categorzied as glazing (used a generous amount of this pigment) and the second one was opauqe (only very small amount used)
(This is epoxy on EPS, far from perfect I know. This is a buddy glassing his very first board. Don´t blame him, blame it on the “teacher” who is a stupid kook who got no clue what he´s doing (me). And of course, we usually wear breathing masks, this pictures was taken after we were finished and about to leave the room, just one more time checking the laps)
With some opaque pigments you can get a tint-like look if you use only small amounts. But test-pieces are mandatory, they all behave different.
These pictures show the same orange pigment powder categorized as “opaque”.
The orange alone used in small amounts give a semi-transluszent kind of tint.
(the picture with the cutlaps and the resinpanel-stripes)
The second picture shows a board where I mixed it with an opaque red pigment powder and used generous amount - this gives a very opaque colour.
…pigments: you cannot see the stringer/s if you put a lot if not you can see through but you can see the weave and still maintain the opacity.
Tints: you always see through and you do not see the cloth weave.
Mix: opacity wins.
Some colors or brands “cut” between them, no properly mix so having that on mind, for some colors and depends on the technique would be good for acid splashes.
You can can expand your color range by using White pigment. I get Baby Blue variations by starting with White ond adding my Blue. A little goes a long way and will quickly become Opaque if you go too far. Pigments from Fiberglass Hawaii and Greenlight have more color variety. They are all good no matter where you buy, but those two suppliers seem to have more variety in colors.
