#faceplates

A comparison of Nendoroid Anya faces. Anya has been getting so many Nendoroids, I forgot which facial expressions are included with which ones.

Got some new pigment powders! I heard these were super potent, fluorescent pigments so I thought I’d give them a try on some faceplates! Here’s a brief review, just in case anyone else has had their eye on these particular pigments. They’re made by stuart semple and sold over on culturehustle.com if anyone decides to grab some for themself!

DISCLAIMER

(if anyone is unaware of the feud between stuart semple and anish kapoor pls google it bc it is a wild ride)

First of all, I’d like to point out that on the website it said these pigments can be mixed right into resin. However I think they meant epoxy resin, because I use urethane resin for my plates and it didn’t mix very well at all. As you can see here, the pigment didn’t mix in completely and clumps of it can be seen in the finished cast.

Also, I had to add a drop of my white pigment in the resin with the powder for it to be opaque. No matter how much pigment I put in there, it was still translucent. Here’s a comparison of the casts with and without the white colorant:

I have this same problem with mica powder too, so it’s not just this particular pigment. In general, I’ve found that my urethane resin just doesn’t like to take pigments very well. The resin I use is smooth cast 326, made by smooth on if anyone’s wondering.

So that was a bit of a bummer, but overall I’d still say I like the colors quite a bit! Once you add a tiny drop of white it’s opaque, and they’re definitely more neon than the resin colorants I was using previously. My favorite is definitely the pink, it is obscenely pink and I love it. The clumps of pigment thankfully settle to the deepest parts of the mold, aka the parts that are gonna be painted anyway, so once the plate is finished with the paint and eyechips and such I don’t think the pigment clumps will be much of a problem.

Moving on to the lit pigment, it’s different than I was expecting. It’s totally transparent in the resin, not adding any color at all. The old glow pigment I used in the past turned the cast green, as seen here

But the lit pigment is completely invisible. Here’s two casts, one with just the pigment and one with the pigment with a drop of white. You can’t tell there’s pigment in them at all

That is, until it’s dark. HOLEY MOLEY are these things bright!!

They look radioactive, and glow about 10x brighter than any pigment I’ve tried in the past. LOVE that.

Now, I said the pigment doesn’t add color to the resin, which may sound like a bad thing, but personally I’m actually really stoked about it. Because that means I can add this pigment to any cast I make of any color, and it’ll look the same but glow in the dark. So let’s say you wanna buy one of those pink plates from me, I can make that thing glow in the dark and you can even tell until you turn the lights off! I tried this out by adding some to the green plates- they look just like normal plates in the light, then, BAM. THEY GLOW.

So, overall I’m pretty happy with these pigments! The only complaint I have is the aforementioned clumps, but like I said they can be covered up. I’m definitely the most psyched about the lit pigment, because I now possess the ability to make all my resin casts secretly glow in the dark. Plus these pigments were all really reasonably priced too! Overall, I’d recommend them. 

Got some new faces from judifur on etsy and aaaa I love them!!

The two big ones are 80 and 70 mm and the tiny ones are about 20 mm.

Custom furby faceplates by @walrus-furbs !!

Falriel

Robotic mistress of darkness.

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