Has Anyone tryed this???????

[Bruce Wayne]

I'm sure I'm not the first one to think of this, but has anyone ever tryed airbrushing the stencils on?? Is the paint simply to heavy or what?
What if you did it in light , thin cotes?

I was also thinking about useing an airbrush clearcoat after dying the disc to see if it would make it last longer.


And I was also wondering. what was the best way to get a real life picture into a stencil format?

I've read a few suggestions on the board already, but does anybody have any step by steps on how to go about it? Cus so far I suck at it.

I had a few more things I was gonna ask, but I forget. O well.

[JohnnyB]

If you have photoshop
Open up your photo you want to turn into a stencil. Mess with the levels till you get a good bright/dark contrast in the areas you want. Then just goto threshold and adjust that till you get the stencil you want.
Ofcourse don't go too wild. Some things just don't belong on a disc

[nickster9224]

the paint and clearcoat would make it illegal for pdga tournaments

[Bruce Wayne]

yea i understand that, I've read the PDGA rules, but why does the airbrush differ from dying. is it the weight of the paint? Because airbrush coates are supper thin and I bet the dye weighs just as much

[nickster9224]

the dye does not effect the flight of the disc. yet someone could manipulate flight with an airbrush.

[Bruce Wayne]

If you have photoshop
Open up your photo you want to turn into a stencil. Mess with the levels till you get a good bright/dark contrast in the areas you want. Then just goto threshold and adjust that till you get the stencil you want.
Ofcourse don't go too wild. Some things just don't belong on a disc

I don't have photoshop, but i do have a simalar program. I have turned the picture to black and white. And played with the contrast, but I can't get the picture to look anything like that.

[Bruce Wayne]

the dye does not effect the flight of the disc. yet someone could manipulate flight with an airbrush.

I suppose your right because the paint would be raised. Even tho it's microscopic, it is raised and the dye is not.

[Denver Discer]

correct me if I am wrong but you can use an airbrush to apply the dye.

[ChUcK]

[Bruce Wayne]

Yea that's what brought it up. I was using an airbrush to spray dye, but paint would be much easier. Dye is such a pain in the arse/

[k-os]

Clearcoating over a dye would not slow the fading process. The dye fades because it starts to bleed through the plastic toward the back, not out the front.

[ChUcK]

I don't have the right accuracy of scales, but I'd bet good money that the weight of paint is exponentially more than the weight of any dye added. When I 'brush on the dye, 99 percent of it gets washed off afterwards in the sink, and the acetone evaporates instantly upon hitting the plastic (if you're good with the 'brush). 100 percent of any paint you apply stays.

Plus, a box of RIT weighs 31.9 grams. I used the same box of black to dye ~400 discs and when I moved apts I still threw out a full pot of LaBrea-esque dye begging for more plastic into which it may seep. 31.9/400 = .08g. I probably could have dyed a thousand more discs in the pot, which makes is .02g per disc added, which I think is still a little high, but way less than the weight added with paint.

Maybe I'll do some trials once the chem lab opens up again and I have access to the .00001 accuracy scales.

[Bruce Wayne]

EDIT: Personal Attack

[k-os]

Why have you been so rude to Chuck....?

[Kurt Schwitters]

EDIT: Personal Attack

Edit: No need for this nonsense in what started out as a good thread on inquiry to disc dying and why you can't use paint.