Dyeing parts?

[olds97_lss]

Hey guys,

I'm not sure where this thread should go... I figured the one that talks about paint and whatnot would be ok.

I'm a total newbie to dying parts. I want to dye my tank/receiver box on my aftershock to be green, similar to the green in the BYT logos. I had my wife pick up some RIT dye a while back and finally got off my hump to try it. I had a few plastic bottles to try it on first, and I'm glad I did.

She got the dark green dye. I read the directions (odd that dyeing rc parts isn't anywhere in them ) put about 3 quarts of water in a pan, heated the water to just under boiling, added the dye, sat a bottle in it for about 5 minutes. It came out a nice pretty shade of blue... Wait... I wanted green? Box says Green. Parts are clear/white... came out blue. Huh...

So, I'm mildly confused and/or retarded as to how to dye stuff. If anyone that could shed some light on this for me I'd greatly appreciate it.

 

[itsalifeworthliving]

i have dyed plenty of parts. the color is tough. they will always come out diffrent on diffrent plastics becouse of the density. like rims, and wings will be a diffrent shade then suspension arms. colors that didnt work for me were green(yellow), purple(blue), and red(orange). i did also use rit dye. i guess its just the nature of it.. i dont know if you remember but rpm suspension arms used to be white, i recantly tried to dye the gas tank on my baja purple. i cooked it for hours in boiling water to have a blue tank.. sprayed it with bed liner and didnt like it so bought a new tank. well bedliner peeled of and its purple.. no explanation. but good luck

 

[SMaxxin]

You did it right, sometimes it just turns out like that LOL. I tried to dye some wheels and a wing yellow and they came out dark orange.