Golden additives such as retarder, open thinner and wetting agent affect how the paint dries, decreasing surface tension, maintaining or slowing drying times.

This product is a pourable acrylic paint medium. As with gels, it’s white when wet and clear when dry, and is a great paint extender. I like to use a knife to mix my paint into the medium. You may also use a brush since polymer medium has a lower viscosity than the previously discussed gels. Polymer medium makes opaque paint more transparent. Pumice Gel. This is really a specialty gel. I like to mix it with a gel so it’s easier to spread. I can also change the transparency and the absorbency depending on the gel I mix with the pumice. You may find it as coarse pumice or ceramic stucco depending on the brand. In the image above, the left side has pumice applied, and the right side has pumice mixed with soft gel gloss. I could alter the absorbency and transparency by mixing it with matte gel, or I could even make my own coarse molding paste by mixing the pumice into the paste. The dried texture was interesting in how it reflected light, and the glaze effect, when it was painted over with a transparent colour, was very notable and pleasing. Extend your paint by mixing it with gels. I often add a few drops to a tablespoon of gel into my paint, working it together with a knife. I prefer using a knife over a brush because the gel can clog a paintbrush and create unsightly brush marks.If using EMP160 for filleting and filling corners and details on a mould prior to using a traditional fabric reinforcement, the fabric reinforcement should be laminated using EL160 Epoxy Laminating Resin. Pumice gels use sand and gritty concrete-like solids in a transparent binder to create texture, meaning their ability to create peaks is decreased slightly and their opacity is slightly increased. EMP160 is an advanced moulding paste (also known as laminating paste) for use in the production of high temperature moulds/tools for prepreg and resin infusion. EMP160 uses a special high-Tg epoxy resin combined with aluminium filler and short-strand glass reinforcement to produce a reliable and easy-to-apply structural reinforcement for high temperature moulds. Lightly sand the textured surface before your start painting on it to remove imperfections. Wear a respirator when sanding.

A choice of epoxy mould making kit sizes is available. The regular sized kit contains materials to make a sufficiently strong mould of about 30cm x 30cm, (depending on the shape of the mould) whilst the large version of the kit contains materials to make a mould of around 60cm x 60cm. Golden Clear Granular Gel, when wet, looks like rice pudding and feels very rough and gritty, as it’s full of little plastic shards. This makes it hard to handle, control and scratch into. Its opacity when wet, makes it hard to judge value, as it dries almost completely clear. Expect a massive colour shift if you’re combining it with acrylic colour.Try this combination. Light modeling paste is very absorbent, holds textures well, and when combined with the unique properties of Golden iridescent bronze, makes for a beautiful finish. Here’s a fun exercise: I applied light modeling paste and while wet, pressed a dowel into the paste to create interesting marks. When the paste was dry, I brushed on a very watered-down iridescent bronze paint. This only works if the paint is very diluted. It takes a few minutes for the bronze particles and the green color to separate. Coarse Molding Paste Coarse molding paste has some tooth and is ideal as a surface for drawing or pastels.