tinting clear canopy

i just use tamiya smoke and it works beautifully with a nice "wet" coat. and you can thin smoke and keep building it up until your hearts desire. later.

From the found in the cabinets dept: You also use food coloring to tint future or similar.

Yeah I heard that too.
You can also tint with real window tint. You get at walmart, there are different darknesses. Also you can use old picture negatives, the ones included when you get your photos back. hope this helps some!

Yeah I heard that too.
You can also tint with real window tint. You get at walmart, there are different darknesses. Also you can use old picture negatives, the ones included when you get your photos back. hope this helps some!

Why do you have to tint an entire bottle of future? For mixing paint, I use the little pill cups that hospitals and doctors give you medicine in. I would simply fill one about 1/2 full (2 tablespoons) and tint that. Don't waste as much that way (although 2 tablespoons is probably a lot more than you need). Haven't tried it personally but I read somewhere that you can tint Future with food coloring.

Tamiya makes some very nice clear tinted acrylics that come in a variety of colors including yellow, orange, red, green, blue and smoke. But again - they are acrylics and not enamels. Apart from the basis of the paint itself (not being enamels), the Tamiya paints are quite nice to use.

Future is a good option and you can mask over it but if you do not want to go that avenue you could get some Tamiya clear paint for the color you want.