Whoa, I have a collection of mica powders I’ve had for years when I was making my own acrylic guitar picks. This gives me a second use for all those colors I have just sitting around. Thanks!
I love this channel so much. You are a life saver more times than I can count. You have answered more questions for me than any other channel on here. Thank you so much.
Awesome! I've been looking forward to this one. I got tons of mica powders for my resin work, including lots of chameleon powders. I have plenty of Meyspring micas, and they have BEAUTIFUL colors. The colors in that 24 set you have are really beautiful, too.
You are so organized with all those spray outs, I would've been so confused. Amazing deal o those powders, I've never heard of them before seeing it here.
Another great video! I had no idea you could do that and I'm anxious to try it out. Seems every time you post a video I go directly to my Amazon account to order more stuff. I especially like the tips and links you give for application methods. In a million years I wouldn't have thought of eye liner brushes. I'm impressed that you give so much thought to keeping everything low cost so we can all enjoy the hobby. Looking forward to your next video with a baby spray gun. BTW, I know what you're going thru with your dental work. Like you I'm getting a lot of teeth replaced and it's no party but you did an awesome job with no front teeth. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Good stuff Robert. Definitely gives us some different options for colors and allows us to avoid buying a whole jar of a color we might only use once or twice. Thanks again like always
I love this. I’m starting to get into 1/12 scale motorcycle builds and wanted to try to get a scale metal flake style finish. I knew that if there was a way to do it, you would have a video about it, and here it is! Thank you so much.
You can also use powdered food coloring mixed with cheap vodka and airbrush that as well. Micas can be mixed so many different ways. You can mix it into clear nail polish, thin and spray it. If you work with Clay, like I do, you can brush powdered food color on and set it with hair spray. There are tons of places making mica and powdered food colors now too, so it's worth shopping around the web for them. One advantage of powdered food color is they can be mixed to create custom colors. Gel food colors can be thinned some and mixed also. Powdered food color can be applied using makeup brushes that are soft. Eye shadow applicators, like you used here, can be purchased in bulk very cheaply from Amazon, Sally's beauty, the dollar stores, etc. Going to ulta or Sephora is actually more expensive for those. You can also use both mica and powdered food colors in resin molds if you use either a mold release sprayed onto the mold first and then brush in your choice of the colorant, or vegetable shortening. They can be blended in your mold this way as well. I started out life as a baker, now I craft...can you tell? Lol. Just thought I'd share some tips and tricks for anyone out there who cares to try any of these methods. Just please remember a mask when using mica it's not good to breathe it in. PPE is important too lol. Depending on what you're doing, you can also mix either one into clear Elmer's glue, Linseed oil, and a variety of other products to make your own paints.
that was like magic, blown away, perfect color for the test. Please consider testing the entire box minus fuchsia. This technique adds a whole new level to the hobby and connects the painter with the origin of painting. Excellent!
This was an awesome video Robert. Thanks for sharing this with us. I ordered all of the powders you used in the video. Thanks for the links made it much easier to find the right thing. Have a great weekend buddy. Terry
o this video is perfect i just got a 36 color pack my friend had from art class leftover and was blown away with how beautiful they look but had no clue if i could just mix and spray to paint my gunpla
Thank you for another fantastic review. Now I need to buy a set of mica powders. As a beginner to airbrushing, I'm learning new things with every video I watch. The buffing technique just amazed me, did not know you could apply it that manner. And the Quote of the day for me, "it's not baking a cake here" 😆 (12:58)
After watching your video on touching up nub marks on gold kits, I tried the gold nail powder over almost dry gloss black on the yellow parts of my MG Hi-Nu Ver KA and it was spectacular. Best gold finish I’d ever had. So I was going to try mixing it into some clear enamel to see what that’s like, but having my kits and spray space put away for the holidays delayed me. Thanks for this video, I’m definitely going to try it now! We’ll just as soon as I get all set up again
Hey buddy glad to see another great wonderful awesome learning video n just wanna thank u AGAIN because with out u n ur videos,I WOULD never kn how to use very nice colors n techniques of learning,tips,tricks to make my gunply art n projects to the t,but just in need of new equipment n things because mine I got now is not working good n that's how I make a lil side cash.JUST ANOTHER THANK U REMINDER N PLZ KEEP IT UP SO I CAN CONTINUE TO LEARN.
Love these Mica powders Robert. So many possibilities with blending different colours and with both being able to be sprayed or rubbed on I can see a few exotic cars being built with these. I think it would also work well with Pledge so will give that a try and let you know how it goes. Looking forward to the Zurc tests which I think you will be impressed by. Cheers from Oz.
Did you try this with Pledge? And if so, how did it go? I tried Pledge with a metallic powder and I ended up with a kind of coarse surface with a lot of metal flake, as opposed to when I applied the powder directly over a tacky gloss primer that gave me a far smoother metallic surface. I either used too much powder, or not enough! (Or my airbrush is kind of crap. Either way, I'm curious how this might have worked out for other people.)
I had a go at mixing the mica powder with pledge and although it mixed well it did not lay down at all well. Tried over white spoon unprimed white primed black primed semi gloss and gloss black. The colour looked great but it would not adhere. Good lock
@@allanlowe9346 Good to know, thanks! Adhesion wasn't a problem for me, but the surface just wasn't good. I wonder if Pledge might be too thin or it could simply be that floor polish isn't a good substitute for actual airbrush products in this case! :)
Excellent video as always! Great tips and help for sure!! Gonna use some, most definitely! For colored chromes, recently I've found my favorite way is adding alcohol inks to my Duralumen. Done it now for a few different things (power swords, burgundy armor, etc.) and it's turned out great. Will be putting some uv varnish over to topcoat and protect the inks from UV, and should be good. Tend to do that in general with my alcohol inks now since I've been using them more as a staple anyhow. Decanted some Kamar varnish (thanks for the decanting tips!) For the initial coats, then uv varnish, but have found other varnishes that should do the same. I wonder if that diamond coat is uv protective for the metals? And for the micas, finding some that have actual metal particles vs just mica for metallic pigments is big too I've found. Some will have bigger flakes (mica) than others with the aluminum or other mix like the ones you showed. Definitely some good finds! Just a grab bag lol Apologize for my verbal vomit lol. Hope you heal up quick! Thank you for your time and content, and have a good one!
Nice test, and nice video as usual. Some 5 or 6 years ago I painted a car model using this technique, but the clear I used was 2K (over black primer/surfacer). It worked well, so that's another option for a clear. I got those pigments from a company in the UK (at the time pigments weren't so easily available).
Brilliant as always, many thanks for all the inspirational ideas and the technical know how, these videos are priceless and cant thank you enough, keep at it and hope the dental work is going ok?
So I literally just got that same set of 24 pigment powders, well the color shift set they make, for my daughter to make "magic potion bottles" and was wondering if I could use them for my models. Thanks to you for answering that question I'm never buying another bottle of color shift paint again. Now I'm searching for other mica powder colors because you can't beat the savings using this method.
I got introduced to Mica's when doing like counter tops few years ago. One day I wondered if it would work with Createx 4030 low en behold it worked. That was it of my adventure. If one has the time to mess with the mica it can be beneficial for some.
An other awesome video! Thanks for explaining and trying out the possibilities. I was thinking about buying an airbrush, but this video (along with the previous one) made me decide to go and shop for one. By the way, "glanzend" on the Hobby Mio bottle means "glossy" or "gloss" in Dutch. Good luck with the dental work.
Great review! I have a question....You mentioned that you can mix the colors together to create other colors. My question is...What can you use to see what the blended colors will look like without actually mixing it in the clear? Water, Alcohol, Thinner?
You had a video on painting with mica powder in October 2021, but this has a much more expansive color palette tested. I had seen lots of mica kits for sale, but not the color shifting sets.
Thank you very much for the great information. Just wondering if all the other powders from the video could be done like the mica powder mixing with clear to use in airbrush? The silver lining looks very interesting and would be great if we can make a huge jar of silver out of that
I like seeing them through the plastic jars since I will be painting backwards on the inside of cars. ? I would have to use black as the backing with the color shift paints? not sure quite how to phrase that.
Nice. think of using these like pearl powders with the clears, mix ratio becomes a big factor with pigment powders like these. I can already see a whole lot of applications to use these on, not just on scale stuff!
The powders look great. Do you think they could be mixed in acrylic mediums and thinned down to be used as a contrast or wash type paint? I've been looking for cheaper alternatives, like using acrylic inks.
I've been buying these the last few years and for some reason I never used them. But thanks for the inspiration as always. And yes it is pronounced mike-a
Question: with so much thinner to paint ratio, would it not be really thinner with Mica powder instead of paint, or is the paint really making a difference ?
Interesting stuff! My local Amazon has many different options for mica powders. Not this set though. Wandering if most of them will work roughly the same. As in as thinly grounded as the ones you are showing of here.
I got the 144 mica powder set lol and I just got 200 spoons so going to test all of the colors I have a bunch of black primers and building badgers primer colors collection
Great video. I really want the colored panel liners. I build hot rods and custom car models and want the colors for finned valve covers etc. Red, blue, yellow, orange, purple would be great.
,,,so, these mica pigments can also be mixed with colored acrylic paints?....like silver mica in blue acrylic...or have you done a vid on that already? if so, link? thx👍
I got introduced to mica powders while I was experimenting using pigment powders in my miniature painting. You can use them mixed with an acrylic medium or matte poly varnish. They also work great dry brushed as well. I just apply a quick coat of matte varnish and wait til it's almost dried (tacky) before dry brushing over it.
If you buff on the mica powder, is it prone to finger prints? If so, what clear coat would you recommend to seal and protect without losing the metallic look?
Whoa, I have a collection of mica powders I’ve had for years when I was making my own acrylic guitar picks. This gives me a second use for all those colors I have just sitting around. Thanks!
I love this channel so much. You are a life saver more times than I can count. You have answered more questions for me than any other channel on here. Thank you so much.
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Awesome! I've been looking forward to this one. I got tons of mica powders for my resin work, including lots of chameleon powders. I have plenty of Meyspring micas, and they have BEAUTIFUL colors. The colors in that 24 set you have are really beautiful, too.
You are so organized with all those spray outs, I would've been so confused. Amazing deal o those powders, I've never heard of them before seeing it here.
Another great video! I had no idea you could do that and I'm anxious to try it out. Seems every time you post a video I go directly to my Amazon account to order more stuff. I especially like the tips and links you give for application methods. In a million years I wouldn't have thought of eye liner brushes. I'm impressed that you give so much thought to keeping everything low cost so we can all enjoy the hobby. Looking forward to your next video with a baby spray gun. BTW, I know what you're going thru with your dental work. Like you I'm getting a lot of teeth replaced and it's no party but you did an awesome job with no front teeth. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Good stuff Robert. Definitely gives us some different options for colors and allows us to avoid buying a whole jar of a color we might only use once or twice. Thanks again like always
I love this. I’m starting to get into 1/12 scale motorcycle builds and wanted to try to get a scale metal flake style finish. I knew that if there was a way to do it, you would have a video about it, and here it is! Thank you so much.
I have a bunch of these pigments when I started making my own resin guitar picks. Had the idea to repurpose them for model painting. Thanks!
And here I was thinking the powders were going to clog the heck out the airbrush! Beautiful results. This medium gives us a lot more options.
Just amazing, I ordered a couple of the powder sets and can't wait to try this weekend!
You can also use powdered food coloring mixed with cheap vodka and airbrush that as well. Micas can be mixed so many different ways. You can mix it into clear nail polish, thin and spray it. If you work with Clay, like I do, you can brush powdered food color on and set it with hair spray. There are tons of places making mica and powdered food colors now too, so it's worth shopping around the web for them. One advantage of powdered food color is they can be mixed to create custom colors. Gel food colors can be thinned some and mixed also. Powdered food color can be applied using makeup brushes that are soft. Eye shadow applicators, like you used here, can be purchased in bulk very cheaply from Amazon, Sally's beauty, the dollar stores, etc. Going to ulta or Sephora is actually more expensive for those. You can also use both mica and powdered food colors in resin molds if you use either a mold release sprayed onto the mold first and then brush in your choice of the colorant, or vegetable shortening. They can be blended in your mold this way as well. I started out life as a baker, now I craft...can you tell? Lol. Just thought I'd share some tips and tricks for anyone out there who cares to try any of these methods. Just please remember a mask when using mica it's not good to breathe it in. PPE is important too lol. Depending on what you're doing, you can also mix either one into clear Elmer's glue, Linseed oil, and a variety of other products to make your own paints.
that was like magic, blown away, perfect color for the test. Please consider testing the entire box minus fuchsia. This technique adds a whole new level to the hobby and connects the painter with the origin of painting.
Excellent!
This is an awesome review I never would have thought to try this for a kit.
YEAH! That's what i've been asking about!
I have a tons of bronze powder, which i wanted to use to make paint, but didn't know how
Thanks alot, Rex!
This is great! Thanks for sharing! I love the chrome powder. Can definitely use that for mufflers and tail pipes!
Thanks so much for this idea I can’t wait to be able to purchase these mica powders and incorporate them into one of my miniatures
This was an awesome video Robert. Thanks for sharing this with us. I ordered all of the powders you used in the video. Thanks for the links made it much easier to find the right thing. Have a great weekend buddy. Terry
Thanks Terry, much appreciated 👍
@@barbatosrex9473 you're very welcome buddy 👍
Holy cow, that color shift mica powder was stunning! Thanks for another banger of a video!
😎👍
God bless to you to! Glad your getting your teeth all fixed up and hopefully feeling better since you got the work done!
Very versatile product. The color shift is gorgeous. Thanks for showing.
o this video is perfect i just got a 36 color pack my friend had from art class leftover and was blown away with how beautiful they look but had no clue if i could just mix and spray to paint my gunpla
I’m finally starting to get notifications for your videos promptly again!
My dude I love your channel, this is rad as heck. Absolutely goign to try this. Always looking for new techniques and materials.
Results looked amazing! Look forward to the coloured panel lining review 🦾
I'm amazed with these results. Great vid! Def gonna keep these in mind as I begin my airbrush journey.
Thank you for another fantastic review. Now I need to buy a set of mica powders. As a beginner to airbrushing, I'm learning new things with every video I watch. The buffing technique just amazed me, did not know you could apply it that manner. And the Quote of the day for me, "it's not baking a cake here" 😆 (12:58)
After watching your video on touching up nub marks on gold kits, I tried the gold nail powder over almost dry gloss black on the yellow parts of my MG Hi-Nu Ver KA and it was spectacular. Best gold finish I’d ever had. So I was going to try mixing it into some clear enamel to see what that’s like, but having my kits and spray space put away for the holidays delayed me. Thanks for this video, I’m definitely going to try it now! We’ll just as soon as I get all set up again
i use those in my resin artwork, plus i've used some of the silver and gold powers on my models. really good stuff
Are mica powders as durable as acrylics when applied with a clear?
Yes
Any type of clear will work with Mica powders
I could see these being used to create the heat damage in jet engines, exhaust pipes, etc... Really cool products!
Hey buddy glad to see another great wonderful awesome learning video n just wanna thank u AGAIN because with out u n ur videos,I WOULD never kn how to use very nice colors n techniques of learning,tips,tricks to make my gunply art n projects to the t,but just in need of new equipment n things because mine I got now is not working good n that's how I make a lil side cash.JUST ANOTHER THANK U REMINDER N PLZ KEEP IT UP SO I CAN CONTINUE TO LEARN.
Thank you for this video. It will really help me with some customs I’m working on and I use mica powders
Love these Mica powders Robert. So many possibilities with blending different colours and with both being able to be sprayed or rubbed on I can see a few exotic cars being built with these. I think it would also work well with Pledge so will give that a try and let you know how it goes. Looking forward to the Zurc tests which I think you will be impressed by. Cheers from Oz.
Did you try this with Pledge? And if so, how did it go? I tried Pledge with a metallic powder and I ended up with a kind of coarse surface with a lot of metal flake, as opposed to when I applied the powder directly over a tacky gloss primer that gave me a far smoother metallic surface. I either used too much powder, or not enough! (Or my airbrush is kind of crap. Either way, I'm curious how this might have worked out for other people.)
@@matthewrice5721 sorry Im slow getting back to you. I have not had a chance yet but will let you know asap
I had a go at mixing the mica powder with pledge and although it mixed well it did not lay down at all well. Tried over white spoon unprimed white primed black primed semi gloss and gloss black. The colour looked great but it would not adhere. Good lock
@@allanlowe9346 Good to know, thanks! Adhesion wasn't a problem for me, but the surface just wasn't good. I wonder if Pledge might be too thin or it could simply be that floor polish isn't a good substitute for actual airbrush products in this case! :)
Excellent video as always! Great tips and help for sure!! Gonna use some, most definitely!
For colored chromes, recently I've found my favorite way is adding alcohol inks to my Duralumen. Done it now for a few different things (power swords, burgundy armor, etc.) and it's turned out great. Will be putting some uv varnish over to topcoat and protect the inks from UV, and should be good.
Tend to do that in general with my alcohol inks now since I've been using them more as a staple anyhow. Decanted some Kamar varnish (thanks for the decanting tips!) For the initial coats, then uv varnish, but have found other varnishes that should do the same. I wonder if that diamond coat is uv protective for the metals?
And for the micas, finding some that have actual metal particles vs just mica for metallic pigments is big too I've found. Some will have bigger flakes (mica) than others with the aluminum or other mix like the ones you showed. Definitely some good finds! Just a grab bag lol
Apologize for my verbal vomit lol. Hope you heal up quick! Thank you for your time and content, and have a good one!
I think the Mica powder is a gem for its price! 👌 Great video.
Just a great video. I really enjoy how you describe all the different ways of applications. Thanks and keep it up
I’m definitely gonna have to get some of these, great video! Thanks for the info!
That's really cool. Going to have to play around with them.
I mica powders all the time in my builds, there are some great colors
Robert - I can always count on you for GREAT information. Happy New Year and keep the great content coming - Model On.
Great video Rob, I like the rub n buff technique. Good luck with your dental work.
Good Video, I would love a roomtour Video/ behind the scenes. It's interesting where you building and reviewing all that stuff
Great content for lure building and painting as well
Nice test, and nice video as usual.
Some 5 or 6 years ago I painted a car model using this technique, but the clear I used was 2K (over black primer/surfacer). It worked well, so that's another option for a clear.
I got those pigments from a company in the UK (at the time pigments weren't so easily available).
Brilliant as always, many thanks for all the inspirational ideas and the technical know how, these videos are priceless and cant thank you enough, keep at it and hope the dental work is going ok?
All sorts of great options there!
This is incredibly helpful! I have a small sample set of powders laying around that I can try out!
Thank you for this video. Answered all my questions 👍
Excellent review, I paused it 1/2 way to go to Amazon and ordered!
I first discovered mica powder when i was looking up colorshift paints! After that i spent 2 months watching car colorshift videos!
Wow those colours pop out at you can’t wait to get myself an airbrush kit and some paint and let rip 😀
Hope you feel better Rex. Thanks for the video Rex I was wondering if we could use the powder paints.
Thank you! I see a couple colors I can really use!!
I'm liking those Color Shifts !
Loving the stuff with mica powders. I've almost convinced my wife to let me raid her mica stash she keeps for soaps.
So I literally just got that same set of 24 pigment powders, well the color shift set they make, for my daughter to make "magic potion bottles" and was wondering if I could use them for my models. Thanks to you for answering that question I'm never buying another bottle of color shift paint again. Now I'm searching for other mica powder colors because you can't beat the savings using this method.
I am going to order some right now. Thanks!
Thank you for this video . I've been wanting to try some of these powders for a while now .
I got introduced to Mica's when doing like counter tops few years ago. One day I wondered if it would work with Createx 4030 low en behold it worked. That was it of my adventure. If one has the time to mess with the mica it can be beneficial for some.
Very cool test, powder with clear coat. Loads of combination.
Empty bottle, with an agitator and one of those lab style paint shakers, would really mix these up well. May have to look into this!
An other awesome video! Thanks for explaining and trying out the possibilities. I was thinking about buying an airbrush, but this video (along with the previous one) made me decide to go and shop for one.
By the way, "glanzend" on the Hobby Mio bottle means "glossy" or "gloss" in Dutch.
Good luck with the dental work.
Very impressive results!
Very nice products sir 👌 👍. Thank you for sharing.
Great review! I have a question....You mentioned that you can mix the colors together to create other colors. My question is...What can you use to see what the blended colors will look like without actually mixing it in the clear? Water, Alcohol, Thinner?
Wow. I got a bunch of pigments. I’m going to have to try with metals.👍👍
You had a video on painting with mica powder in October 2021, but this has a much more expansive color palette tested. I had seen lots of mica kits for sale, but not the color shifting sets.
Thank you very much for the great information. Just wondering if all the other powders from the video could be done like the mica powder mixing with clear to use in airbrush? The silver lining looks very interesting and would be great if we can make a huge jar of silver out of that
I like seeing them through the plastic jars since I will be painting backwards on the inside of cars. ? I would have to use black as the backing with the color shift paints? not sure quite how to phrase that.
thank you for sharing this information, amazing
nice to learn new things
Nice. think of using these like pearl powders with the clears, mix ratio becomes a big factor with pigment powders like these. I can already see a whole lot of applications to use these on, not just on scale stuff!
The powders look great. Do you think they could be mixed in acrylic mediums and thinned down to be used as a contrast or wash type paint? I've been looking for cheaper alternatives, like using acrylic inks.
20:05 that gold looks beautiful. I got a question, after applying mica powder do I top coat it or just leave it like that?
I've been buying these the last few years and for some reason I never used them. But thanks for the inspiration as always.
And yes it is pronounced mike-a
Question: with so much thinner to paint ratio, would it not be really thinner with Mica powder instead of paint, or is the paint really making a difference ?
Cool Mica colors ... awesome video!
I hope all of you guys are doing well.
Your videos have helped me so much!
Epic video as always.
Wow I’ll have to try them.
I just picked up a box of color shift powders. They have pearls I would like to try as well.
Those look really great!!
Thank you mate ! Ganing new information every time. I wonder if they can be mixed with minwax polycrylic or pledge ?
Interesting stuff! My local Amazon has many different options for mica powders. Not this set though. Wandering if most of them will work roughly the same. As in as thinly grounded as the ones you are showing of here.
They'll all work similar
I got to admit I do like the look of these. I’m guessing AK interactive super gloss will work well too.
I got the 144 mica powder set lol and I just got 200 spoons so going to test all of the colors I have a bunch of black primers and building badgers primer colors collection
Great video. I really want the colored panel liners. I build hot rods and custom car models and want the colors for finned valve covers etc. Red, blue, yellow, orange, purple would be great.
Have you done that powder on tacky paint trick with other metal powders? I think that looks great and holds some real possibilities.
tried buying a 2016 camaro kit from clarksville w /your discount code !!! ...A NO GO !!!!
,,,so, these mica pigments can also be mixed with colored acrylic paints?....like silver mica in blue acrylic...or have you done a vid on that already? if so, link? thx👍
I wanna do this on a feature wall!
I like the endless custom possibilities for the powders. What would happen if you mixed them with candy paints?
These are really cool!
Thanks for the video. Do u think that mica powder could mix with the wicked paint set. To be able to stick to metal.
I got introduced to mica powders while I was experimenting using pigment powders in my miniature painting. You can use them mixed with an acrylic medium or matte poly varnish. They also work great dry brushed as well. I just apply a quick coat of matte varnish and wait til it's almost dried (tacky) before dry brushing over it.
Excellent tutorial. Would you recommend spraying the mica powders with a .5 or larger needle or will they spray fine through a .3?
When spraying these types of powders the larger the needle the better but you should be fine with a 0.3mm, you just might need more psi
Amazing colours ! I am new to the sport but it looks so nice :) I wonder if with spray or brush you can have the same result and how :)
Do you think this technique can be applied to glow in the dark mica powders as well?
If you buff on the mica powder, is it prone to finger prints? If so, what clear coat would you recommend to seal and protect without losing the metallic look?