I really like the color of this green board on 101fins’ site. What colors do you think he used to tint the resin?
that would be a combination of green and more green
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that would be a combination of green and more green
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would that be green and the SAME color of “more green”. Any white?? Opaques or tints??
Probably just one or two different colors of mixed greens…Once you start swirling, it’ll give the effect of having more variations of that color because they mix when swirling. I would think (because of the semi-crispness of the colors) that the laminator did not mud the thing up by over-squeegeeing…Is that a word?
looks like the same green pigment to me.
split your resin into two batches – one with less green, one with more green.
then do your swirl laminate.
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looks like the same green pigment to me.
split your resin into two batches – one with less green, one with more green.
then do your swirl laminate.
That’s what I was TRYING to get across…I’m not too good at translating my thoughts into Internet speak… 
Hate to blow the green party, but that board has a lot of yellow in it. I would say it’s almost 70/30, green to yellow.
It’s a yellow and green streak, not much swirling going on, just tip to tail pours.
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Hate to blow the green party, but that board has a lot of yellow in it. I would say it’s almost 70/30, green to yellow.
It’s a yellow and green streak, not much swirling going on, just tip to tail pours.
So you are saying to do 30% of the cups poured in yellow and 70% in green? Or mix 30/70 yellow:green in the same cups?
Also, no white/clear foam showing through, so I would imagine that even the overall resin that is being used is somewhat tinted a bit?
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP GUYS, I just want to do it right, thats why all the questions.
if you want to do it right, then do what you want!
use the colors you want to use. there is no right or wrong.
FWIW, that pic definitely looks like 2 greens to me (with no yellow)…but that may just be my monitor.
if you want green, use green.
if you want yellow, use yellow.
if you want yellowish-green, mix some yellow into some green.
if you want a little white or black, throw it on there.
if you want a little clear, add that to the mix.
there is no right and wrong color choices. sure, some colors are better than others…but so long as you don’t mud anything up to make lots of brown, no worries.
the determining factor for how good this comes out is in the application…not in your color choices. i highly suggest you check out the resin swirl videos on Austin’s website. they’re priceless.
ANOTHER QUESTION, you know how a lot of the retro boards have the rails (laps?) in a slightly darker tint that the rest of the board? As I understand it that is done because there are more layers of glass on the laps/rails and so the tinted glass makes it darker, right?
As a beginner, that process seems waaaaaaay too hard to get right, could you accomplish a similar effect if you were simply to paint (airbrush or paintgun) the rails in a slightly different color then do the tinted resin over it?
Do I buy tints for this effect or pigments???
Soulstice,
I understand what you are referring to, as far as doing it “right” but what I am referring to is doing it similar to the color of the picture. I don’t want to get done and have a forest green surfboard, or add too many colors and have a brown surfboard. In other words, doing what I want, doesn’t always mean that me doing it is going to make it turn out to my desired color. So just because I do it to my liking, doesn’t mean that it will come out to my liking that is why I am trying to do as much research as I can before I screw it up. (I was talking to a buddy and he tells me that a LOT of people add waaaaaay too many colors and end up with a brown surfboard (unintentionally)).
I have watched the austin video a few times, doesn’t look to hard. As opposed to the horizontal stripes, I will do them more along the stringer with less colors.
Forgive me if I’m wrong but doesn’t Black and Yellow make Green…
blue & yellow make green
black & yellow make blackish-yellow
Black and yellow did this…
Hey Rod ,your OK in my book.
Were you able to buy Green Pigment? Mitch’s and FoamEZ did not carry Green when I was buying pigment so I gave up and took a different road. I’m pretty good at mixing OLIVE but the green in your links is really nice. I’m told the guy in Ventura gets some good colors…You have to play around with it ,mixing colors, making tints by thinning good colors with more resin. Half mad scientist ,half artist…gotta go for it…
So lets look at the photos that Hicksy posted and blend that with the comments from Resinhead and Soulman. If you started with a Killer green pigment.
You can mix some green pigment with resin in a small cup and then you can mix the same amount of green pigment in a cup with double the amount of resin. One batch is thick one is thin. The blank is white…see where this is going. You can make light green using a little white mixed with the green or you can mix white separate and have the light green come out naturally during the swirl. Ever wonder where the term Acid Splash came from? Add in some yellow or blue…
Some Red too.
Now you got me wanting to do another crazy board!!! Gotta finish the eps jobs I already started…
Have fun
Ray
Never say never !!!
My lawn is looking better now that I’m watering it !!!
Light blue ,dark blue,white and a touch of Black.
Hey Rod , Contact me or Resinhead via PM. Your board will turn out just fine.
Ray
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I understand what you are referring to, as far as doing it “right” but what I am referring to is doing it similar to the color of the picture. I don’t want to get done and have a forest green surfboard, or add too many colors and have a brown surfboard. …(I was talking to a buddy and he tells me that a LOT of people add waaaaaay too many colors and end up with a brown surfboard (unintentionally)).
howzit rod…what i’m saying is that not everyone may be able to see the same color that you’re seeing in the picture as a result of the color differences between two people’s computer monitors. for example, i definitely see two intensities of straight green pigment; whereas resinhead is certain it’s more of a yellowish-green. what do YOU see???
for whatever colors you decide, make sure that they all go well together. so long as you use multiple shades of green, and maybe add just a touch of yellow, or some white, or some black, there is NO WAY it will turn brown. brown comes when people mix too many primary colors. don’t think of green as green…think of it as blue and yellow. if you were to mix some red in there, or another color that has red in it (like purple, or orange)…then those colors could mud together and make brown. but green plus green will always equal green…no worries.
notice austin’s technique in the “Sam George Board” video – pouring smaller batches and throwing them on side-by-side. that’s how i’d do it. i’d mix up a little black, a little very dark green, and a lot of standard green and lighter green. that’s 4 colors. throw on the black a little bit here and there in an abstract pattern. then move on to the dark green and do the same. then do the green and lighter green together – fill in all the empty space with those two colors, pouring them together, so that they semi-combine in the air before hitting the blank. it’ll be waaayyyy hot!
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ANOTHER QUESTION, you know how a lot of the retro boards have the rails (laps?) in a slightly darker tint that the rest of the board? As I understand it that is done because there are more layers of glass on the laps/rails and so the tinted glass makes it darker, right?
As a beginner, that process seems waaaaaaay too hard to get right, could you accomplish a similar effect if you were simply to paint (airbrush or paintgun) the rails in a slightly different color then do the tinted resin over it?
Do I buy tints for this effect or pigments???
darkened rail laps is a result of both top and bottom being tinted. as the glass is wrapped around the rails during lamination, the intensity of the color is doubled on the rails, so it appears darker. this happens entirely on its own, and doesn’t require any extra painting or glassing.
on swirls, and boards that don’t color both sides, the rail color isn’t doubled…and that’s okay.
on this board, do your resin swirl on the bottom and rails. if you want a clear deck, then lam it clear. if you want a tint, then do the deck tint as an inlay inside the lap from the bottom, and then glass clear over the deck and around the rails.
Hi Rod.
That is one fine looking board, love the bamboo fins.
Planning somthing very simmilar for my next board. going to use green tint as the base and add smaller amounts of yellow tint and dark green pigment, and maybe a few dots of black.
If you pick to complamentary colours, next to each other on the colour wheel, different hughs of the same colour like 2 greens or different saturations ie green and a higher concerntration of the same green, then you wont get brown.
dark colours are more prone to muddying up as are colours that clash ie opersite each other on the colour wheel (like orange and red). think of it like mixing paint and remeber there are primary, secondary and tertiary colours, the further you get from primary the more likerly that you will get brown.
Hope this helps.
THANKS for all the tips guys, beginning to make sense.
So If I do NOT wanted the darker rails and just want the same type of swirl in the top deck, bottom and rails, I first do the bottom and rails/lap. Flip it over and do the top, but do NOT let the tinted resin hit the rails (as they will turn out darker?) but tape off the rails and do the deck in tint and rails in clear? sound right?
I think I am getting close.