I’m making some dominoes for a Christmas gift. What type of paint should I use for the dots; or what should I stay away from?
thanks in advance,
kendall
I’m making some dominoes for a Christmas gift. What type of paint should I use for the dots; or what should I stay away from?
thanks in advance,
kendall
Also I should mention I will be doing them in 5 different colors
I would probably use rattle can colors for the game pieces and use gloss enamel for the dots applied by brush. The latter is even easier if the dots are recessed like commercial game pieces because a nice, soft, fluffy round brush will easily allow you to put the dollop of white into the recess without going over the edges if you are careful and methodical.
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
If you are using many different color dots then I would get an assortment of Testors model paint. It's what we used to use on model cars. I have seen it for sale in Lowes surprisingly. Beats buying a bunch of pint cans.
If you get a small round nose router bit, you can chuck it into a drill press and make the "dimples" I mentioned if you want to take the time to do so. Since the cuts are very shallow, the tooling will work fine for the application even though the speed of rotation would be slower than with a router. A router would not be safe. (unless it's a CNC) Doing the dimples keeps the playing pieces effectively flat and the texture is typically part of the Domino game experience, too. But just painting the dots is fine, too, of course.
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The most expensive tool is the one you buy "cheaply" and often...
Depending on the size of the dot / dimple a toothpick might be easier than a paint brush.
I would look at finishing the blanks dark then using the wood as your dot color. Then clearing the whole
I’m using walnut for the dominos, so I will be using brightly colored bold colors for the dots.
These aren’t traditional dominoes, they are triangle shaped called triominoes with different sets of dots in all 3 corners as opposed to the 2 sides of normal dominoes. I’m using different colors of paint (one color for 1, different color for 2…etc) to make it easier to match. I don’t want to have to count tiny 1/8” dots all night lol