marker mix
Here is a mix that works well on all surfaces, especially the plastic laminate that city rail uses to make the insides of train carraiges, here goes:
Ingredients:
Mecurochrome : That red stuff that your mum used to put on your knees when you fell over and grazed them. Its an antiseptic and can be found in chemists.
Iodine: Similar as above although yellow in colour, dries purple. Antiseptic and can be obtained from chemists.
Raven Oil: Can be bought in a variety of colours from shoe repair stores, including black and blue.
Ink Pad Ink: Found in stationary stores, purple, blue, black or red in colour.
Terebine or Ethanol: Terebine is a form of liquid driers, originally made by combining linseed oil and natural resin with salts of lead and manganese and thinning with turpentine used in the production of paint, harder to obtain than ethanol. Ethanol is pure alcohol and can be found in most hardware stores.
Method:
Mix the above ingredients in roughly the following ratios;
Mecurochrome - 10%: This will give the mix a glossy, metallic finish and is a very strong stainer.
Iodine - 10%: This will also add to the gloss of the mix and is also a very strong stainer.
Raven Oil - 40%: Very watery although the strongest stainer of the mix.
Ink Pad Ink - 35%: This will give colour to the mix and will also stain a bit.
Terebine or Ethanol - 5% (vary according to the consistency of the mix, less for a thicker mix, more for a mix that will drip like hell): These are very watery chemicals that evaporate and allow the mix to dry, not absolutely necessarry but if you can get a hold of some i would throw it in.
Colour: The iodine and mecurochrome will not affect the colour too much, choose the appropriately coloured ink pad ink and raven oil to suit the colour that you want.
So there you have it.
