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Post by **BrianB** » Wed May 03, 2017 10:50 pm

Looking good Will! Love the silver!!
-B

Clinton · Post by **Clinton** » Wed May 03, 2017 10:55 pm

Post by **JCass** » Fri May 05, 2017 11:39 am

Hey Will - Thats awesome! Silver and gold seem to be the toughest (although Pete has it nailed) to produce. Good luck and keep us posted!

John

Clinton · Post by **Clinton** » Fri May 05, 2017 2:13 pm

Post by **paulrace** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:18 pm

Will, did you ever have any luck figuring this out?

Clinton · Post by **Clinton** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:25 am

Post by **BrianB** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:57 am

Paul, I had some small success with Silver a few years ago. I believe I started with white coco, then I went to Michael's and bought a metallic silver ink and tinted it with that in an old sour cream container and then let it dry. The ink was less than $5, my stuffs in storage, and I can't remember what brand I got, but that should get you headed in the right direction, I'm pretty sure they only have 2 or 3 brands of metallics. You can see it on the Grain Elevator House I did, which I believe is on the forum somewhere.

I have an original GEH that I still need to repair, and will probably be making more one of these days.

Post by **Howard** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:53 pm

Brian...
Metallic silver ink!...thanks for the tip!...I’ll surely have to give that a try...
Howard...

Post by **BrianB** » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:19 pm

Cool Howard, if I have time this weekend, I can maybe dig around my putzing box and see if I can find the actual silver I used. I may have added a bit of water in with it to help saturate the coco a bit more, or the coco was still wet from making the white. I'm sure the same process would work for gold coco too. If you want a slightly dimmer silver I think I tinted some with a little bit of really diluted Rite dye to get a grey coco base too.
-B