The Secret Formula To Mix Crystal FX Paint At Home

Let's make another DIY custom

paint

and maybe you've seen these cool glass effect

paint

s on motorcycle tanks, helmets or bicycles and I guess that's why you're here because I show you how to mix glass effect paint at

home

with simple and inexpensive ingredients . how to achieve the look of a motorcycle helmet, so let's keep it brief. I'll show you what things you need to buy where to buy it, how to mix it and how to paint the effect on a helmet, let's do it, but before we start. mixing and painting we have to do a little school lesson so you can understand physics and chemistry.

Beyond this effect, I try to make it as brief, simple and easy for you to understand. We set the ingredients and the first ingredient we need is distilled water and You can find everything I use below the video in the video description so you can find it easy and you can order it yourself to mix the

crystal

effect at

home

and the reason why we use this third water is because we don't want Any mineral in the painting agent that we use except the ones that we put to create the effect of

crystal

effects, and the mineral that we use is urea and urea has a white crystal or a white mineral.

You can also find it in your urine, but don't be afraid. We don't use P for the paint, we use artificially produced area by a chemical company and you can also find the powder in the video description if you need to order it yourself and what we also need is a third ingredient, and that is a wetting agent and I I use hotspile as wetting agent. You can also use different surfactants that you can find in dish soap, but I like Oxbow because it is also a natural product and I made a little sketch of my backyard pond to show you the effect of the batting agent and why we have to use it that way.

It's a little sketch of the water in my backyard pond inside the sunfish some of these little insects on top of the water the mosquitoes and they're like God they can walk on the water and that's exactly what we have to do prevent the water from having a natural surface tension, so these animals can walk on the surface of the water because they are light and they don't sink and the surface tension of the water also creates little water droplets, it creates rain and that's what we have. to avoid because imagine that we spray the glass effects paint on the helmet or whatever you want to paint and we don't use the wetting agent we will create hundreds of thousands of little water cultures and not a closed surface of color and that's what we do.

I don't want to and that's exactly why we have to use wetting agent to create a closed hull color surface on the hull or whatever you want to paint on and that's why I have to add wetting agent to break up the surface tension of the water um, if the surface tension is broken, these little animals will sink inside the pond in the water and they will be eaten by the fish, that's what I don't like because I like to eat fish, but I guess these fish They can do it too. Eat the mosquitoes on the top of the surface, so it doesn't matter, but what matters is to use the wetting agent for glass effect paint to avoid these small water droplets and create a close colored surface on the hull, That is the reason.

To mix the glass effects and to create the point of glass effects we need a

formula

of course and this

formula

is so simple that even a blonde like me is able to understand what is going on and for the formula we need the solubility of the urea in water and the solubility of urea is 1000 grams per liter and 25 degrees Celsius so again 1000 grams per liter and 25 degrees Celsius and that makes it absolutely simple and easy because the weight of water is also around 1000 grams per liter and yes, look at this. create is an absolutely simple and ridiculously easy one to one ratio and that means that when we need, say, 100 milliliters of paint, we have to use 50 grams of urea and 50 milliliters of water, and so on for 200 milliliters of paint.

We need 100 grams of urea and 100 milliliters of water, yes, let's have fun and paint, stop and sit, we forgot about the wedding agent. I have to also add the wedding agent and about two percent of the dark stain in my formula and that means I have to add two milliliters of oxcell, 400 milliliters of paint or four milliliters of oxcell per 200 milliliters of paint and so on, don't forget the wetting agent or you will get in trouble, now is the time. for painting, yes, we have paint with glass effects, but don't forget that you have to prepare the things you like to paint, in my case a helmet.

I already prepared the helmet and that is an absolutely custom paint job. The basics. What I did was sand the surface. the hull with 800 grit wet sandpaper apply the 1K primer sand the primer again apply the coarse silver a 2K high solid clear coat on top I assembled the clear coat again with 800 grit that is the result and that is exactly what We need for the glass effects, you can also use other colors, lighter colors, yellow, red or whatever you want. I like the silver because maybe I also apply a caramel color and for the caramel color you need the silver base coat, that's the reason why I use the thick silver, but choose what you want. but it has to be a light color and what we have to do now is apply the glass effects and the good news is that you don't need fancy tools, you don't need a brush, you don't need a paint gun. what you can use are these sponges that's what I use that's more than enough and it's so simple that even a child can do it all you have to do is soak the sponge in the color and wet the parts that you like to paint and ready Have you seen these crystals growing on the hull?

It was crazy. It took an hour for the hammer to dry and grow these crystals and then I have to apply a metallic black spray paint. I use Metallic Black because silver is also metallic. to match the color of the hull and yes, let's change the paint booth and make it foreign. I applied a light coat of black spray paint and what follows is a light sanding with warm water and the scarf pad we have to remove everything. urea crystals to create this effect, yes, that's it. I assembled the shield and decided to leave the helmet out of this because I like the flat finish in the metallic colors next week I will do a real DIY and show you how. to achieve the crosstalk effect using only spray cans on a bike frame, so if you're DIYing or painting on your garden or your shirt, that's the video for you, stay tuned and I'll see you in the next foreigner.