Lipton Tea sells roughly a dozen varieties of teas, packaged in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) mesh tetrahedra. I happen to be quite fond of their Black Pearl®, so there’s a nearly interminable supply of this stuff, 4×1.5 inch, as much as one would care to harvest.
I’d like to use this bounty (I’m thinking cargo netting in 1:144), but part of the reason Lipton uses PET is that it doesn’t react to BOILING WATER. (This is the same clear/milky stuff as soda bottles.)
Does any body have any ideas how to get this plastic to take color?
Emily Litella moment! I’d used acrylics, Tamiya, Mr. Color, etc., (which end up blotchy and vague) because I was using acrylics for other stuff. Your question made me think: ACRYLICS! I’m staining water-proof PET with water-based color. DUH! I tried using one of my base-paints (LACQUER) and now I’ve got a nice khaki sample.