I bought a resin casting kit today - is there a way to color the resin? The default color is a cream color - I want to try to make the final product appear green or blue in color. I was thinking food coloring or ink.

Check Micro-Mark, they have some resin coloring pigment in the catalog I recieved today. Don't know if it will work with what you have.

SB

You can use pigments, but I rather doubt you'll care for the effect...painting the resin the exact color you want will be better...too hard to get dead consistant color batches and matching of the colored resin to a given armor color. My advice is to paint...

The reason behind this is that I see potential flaws better when it is a color other than cream.

why dont you prime your piece and then putty anything that needs puttying and sand everything that needs sanding etc...

Frank

Yes... I know Alumilite has dyes to add to resin and I believe Smooth-on does as well

I could - I guess it is just a matter of aesthetics. Call me crazy. :-)

If you're casting something detailed... you may want to look into Pressure or Vacuum Casting. Pressure casting is cheaper to do.......

Alex,
I color my resin all the time. You need water-based pigments for that, which you'll normally find at the same shop where you buy the resin.
Some hints from my own experience with this :
- a tiny drop is enough to get a big color effect.
- adding too much (I'm talking only drops here !) can influence the qualities of your resin. In particular, I discovered that blue and green sometimes make the resin cure more slowly or not at all, or incompletely. Yellow and red colors don't have that effect. Of course, this can be related to the brand of pigments I use. Can't tell you the brand, since the tubes are not labeled.
- I also use the dyes to color my MOLDS. This is very practical when you'tre in a scratchbuilding project and you have dozen of small molds lying around. You'll easily mix them up or have trouble figuring out which mold holds which object. A drop of color helps you identify these molds.
- as far as I experienced, resin coloring is fixed once the resin is cured. The color's don't come off and don't have an impact on your painting afterwards.
- I'd invite you to experiment with black and white pigments. They make attractive greyish resin, looking less obnoxious than reds or blues...
good luck
Jan