Thinning paint to make clear

Bgrigg

Clear blue has different pigments than an opaque blue. Adding food coloring to Future will work a lot better.

Tamiya's clear colors are excellent.

Buy Tamiya clear blue and smoke arcylic. You can use both to make super cool looking blue steel for gun barrels. Smoke makes excellent fuel and oil stains as well.

I frequently use magic markers to make a colored transparent area, especially on transparent lenses, as for position lights and stuff.

Make your own clear colored blue with ounce of Future and a drop of blue food coloring...raid the kitchen cabinets, you'll find some there with the rest of the baking supplies.

You can do the same with the other colors as well. Black for smoke!

Thanks for the input and help guy's. Yes, I agree. Tamiya's clear paints are amazing. I have a few of them and they are wonderful.

Josh

Clear blue has different pigments than an opaque blue. Adding food coloring to Future will work a lot better.

Tamiya's clear colors are excellent.

Josh,

If you have a suitable compatible clear acrylic (I believe even Future would work), you could try adding a very small amount of your blue to a quantity of the clear. Then test on something suitable to see if it gives the effect that you want.

Thinning it will not work, the water/solvent will simply evaporate and you'll have applied a blue wash to the dial. You would need to add a lot of extra clear medium, and that may or may not work...you'll have to try it and see. Best thing is to wait and get some clear blue..