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Offline bimmridder

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Re: Shimmer silver on darks
« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2011, 09:17:04 PM »
Thanks for the feedback everyone. Any time we can save time & $ I'm in (plus I'm kinda lazy that way)
83 mesh it is

I'd suggest an 83-70 or what I always use, a 123-55.
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Offline mk162

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Re: Shimmer silver on darks
« Reply #16 on: July 29, 2011, 08:41:15 AM »
I hate the look of shimmers on an UB, to me it looks too plastic-ey.  Maybe I should have done a blue underbase, that might have worked actually.(it was blue metallic).

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Re: Shimmer silver on darks
« Reply #17 on: July 29, 2011, 09:15:32 AM »
I have printed wilflex's blue metallic on a clear under base in the past and man it looks awesome!
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Re: Shimmer silver on darks
« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2011, 11:15:10 AM »
I have printed wilflex's blue metallic on a clear under base in the past and man it looks awesome!
I'm intrigued with using clear underbase with shimmer.

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Re: Shimmer silver on darks
« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2011, 01:08:46 PM »
The clear under base gives it a nicer surface to just6 sit on instead of absorbing into the substrate. Being clear made it easy to register ofcourse, and I also do not like the look of some of the shimmers metallics on white it seems to dull them for some reason.
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