Thread: my second pour ever!

Originally Posted by bxn

might not even need to do that to be honest.i remember seeing a cone shaped cavity forming in the ends of the plastic after it was inside the glass.i'll hafta mess around with it more sometime,maybe after i get some more colors.im thinkin about doin a small batch of plastic in chartreuse green maybe with small black glitter.do some grubs and trout worms again in green.i would really love to do some bright orange plastic as well,and just plain opaque white.i only got the yellow and green colors tho.im wondering,are using oil based paints that come in tubes like for art painting compatible for mixing in plastisol?my dad has bunch of tubes upstairs he paints too.and your welcome,glad to share my discovery with you all and try to make things easier and less expensive to do.

very interesting it was just mentioned below your post here that oil based paints can be used in plastics well I should kick myself in the rear and I just threw out a 100 of oil based paints for painting there are so many different shades in oil paints the good thing about that is if you have a craft store they usually carry a wide selection. And I think a little bit of that will go a long ways. We have used oil base pigments in the past. Don't remember who I bought them from so will have to do research. But I think most of the plastics that verbiage made for instance toys and shares and stuff like that will use a oil base pigments in their manufacturing of the stuff. We will pick up a couple of tubes and find out how well it does. Have you tried it yet? Many of the oil painting pigments are a zillion and one different color combinations there are many different shades to pick from. Not only that but you can mix them to get your own particular color . And again thank you for your information it's very helpful to me and others that are into plastics. Definitely keep in touch and want to see more of your work.