Canopy tint

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Can anyone give me some ideas where the heck I could find black food coloring? I’ve been to a boat load of different grocery stores and some craft stores and kind find any. I need the coloring so I can use it in the “Future” floor wax to tint my a/c canopies.

Thanks in advance for your responses.

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Hey Ordinanceman,

Give india ink a try but remember a little goes a long way.

Richard

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India ink is pigmented, not colored. I know; spent to much time over the years cleaning the crud out of drafting pens! He may wind up with a canopy that looks like it was painted with very find pigment paint. I’d recommend trying it on some clear scrap first. It might work fine, I’m not sure.

Another alternative to try is to mix red, blue, and green food coloring in equal parts. That should give a very dark gray color that is almost black.

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Thanks Shipmate and thanks Craig…I’ll give them both a shot, I’ve got a bunch of spare canopies so I’ll give it a shot.

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Let us know what works and what doesn’t . I’d be curious to know, and sooner or later will need to tint one myself.

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I may be way off here, but I always use Tamiya’s clear colors to tint canopies. I don’t have he color chart right now, but “smoke” is a dark grey that I have used to sinulate tinted auto windows. I spray it on top of fully cured Future.

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Last Halloween I picked up a bottle of black food coloring at a local restaurant supply store. It was the warehouse kinda place… Not your typical kitchen supply. I’d give someplace like that a shot. It might take a little calling around, but in general they carry all kinds of things that you’ll wonder how you ever lived without.

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Just ask swanny, good luck.

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here’s swanny’s link:
http://www.swannysmodels.com/Tinting.html
you could do that or either make a mixture of gloss clear and a small amount of black or yellow (whatever you want to tint it) and spray that through the airbrush lightly over the canopy. good luck!

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A lot of craft and party stores that carry cake decorating supplies also cary “Wilton” products which include icing colour pastes in black. Give them a try.