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    How to blend colors?

    My color blending efforts have mostly produced veined color swirls instead of a solid blended color. How are folks mixing their colors to get a single solid mixed color?

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    I haven't found a way since they don't really blend. I do swirl colors together first before adding bullets. That gives ther most consistent look. Here's an example of White Aluminum and Jet Black. This is about the best I've come up with.



    Here's Traffic Purple and Jet Black

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taterhead View Post
    I haven't found a way since they don't really blend. I do swirl colors together first before adding bullets. That gives ther most consistent look. Here's an example of White Aluminum and Jet Black. This is about the best I've come up with.



    Here's Traffic Purple and Jet Black

    I like the look of those gray boolits. Did you mix the colors 50/50?

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    Blending powders won't result in a uniform homogeneous color the way wet coatings of compatible chemistry will, because powders are discrete particles of plastic that melt upon cure heating but don't "flow" together. It's more of a sintering. The best you can hope for is a uniform dispersion such as with the attractive mottled gray in Post 2.

    Coating powder manufacturers achieve a given color by making the polymers that desired color to start with, before atomization.

    To achieve a uniform dispersion of two or more powders, use a cheap electric coffee grinder or small food processor, pour in the powders, and "take them for a spin."

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    Kinda new to this like you……I started with Orange Brown and White Aluminum, via Smoke4320 and PBP.

    I addd about 1/2 tsp OB and then began adding 1/8 tsp increments of WA.

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    Thanks for the replies. I managed to get similar results mixing bacon fat with white aluminum.
    Here is a pic showing the results next to my first bacon fats. The others are OD green .311’s.
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    White aluminum seems to be popular as a mix agent to “lighten up” a color.
    Anyone have any luck blending other colors that come out reasonably uniform?

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    you will not get a uniform blended color .. you are trying mix 2 dry colors so they don't really mix it will be a speckled color
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