workshop today we’re going to try our
hand at something called hydro dipping
Hydra dipping is a process by which a
tint is sprayed onto the surface of a
fluid usually water and then the object
that you’re trying to paint is passed
through it all the paint or ink gets
applied evenly to the surface of
whatever it is you’re painting even if
it has an uneven texture or a little
bits of ins-and-outs to it we’re going
to see if we can replicate the effects
of Hydra dipping by using spray paint
and a large bucket which will fill up
with water to start off I’ve got this
little squirt gun and we’re gonna see if
we can change the colors of it to
something entirely different if there
are any parts that we don’t want to
change the color of we do want to mask
those off using some tape on this gun I
think I’ll mask off the trigger and just
the opening where the water squirts out
our gun is now taped off in the spots we
want it to be but before we start
dipping into spray paint in the water
I’m gonna hit it with a layer of primer
to really help make sure that all of our
colored spray paint is going to stick to
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all right the layer of primer on our
little plastic squirt gun has now dried
so I think we’re ready to try dipping it
into the water after we add some paint
so I think the first thing we have to do
is choose a good color scheme for this
gun we’re gonna try using red and yellow
and the general idea of how to do this
is to spray one color in and then spray
the other color down inside the sort of
circle that we’ll have formed in the
water if you want the effect to have a
lot more layers and lines in it you can
switch back and forth several times
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valour is pretty good the paint will now
coalesce a little bit more into the
center I’m gonna just try and dip it
right into this area with all of the
stripes let’s see how this goes
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keeping gun pushed slowly down through
the paint and now that it’s all the way
under the water I’m gonna swirl away all
of the extra paint on the surface so
that as I pull it out it’s not gonna
pick up more paint as that would ruin
our finish there we go now this is a
squirt gun so it filled up with water
it’s got a lot of hollow spaces in it
likes to leak out the handle looks like
but it’s pretty cool look at that it’s
like a marbled red and yellow
it does have some spots that look pink
because I’m using such a large container
the paint does like to sort of spread
out to the edges and with the amount
that I used it wasn’t very densely
packed together so the parts that look
pink are where it was red but sort of a
spread out weaker red overall I think
that turned out really nicely
very cool marbling I wear gloves pretty
much all of the time on this show but
this is one where I definitely recommend
that anyone trying it wears gloves
because this stuff will get all over
your hands as you’re dipping stuff down
into the paint
normally spray paint will dry in as
little as 15 minutes but this stuff
having been in the water can even have
little bits of water trapped underneath
the paint and so to really let this dry
off all the way what we really want to
do is give it up to 24 hours in a
room-temperature area to completely dry
off and then we want to hit it with a
clear coat to make sure that the paint
isn’t gonna chip and wear off too
quickly after dipping our squirt gun
there’s still quite a bit of paint left
on the surface of our water but we don’t
have to pour it out and fill a new
bucket pool we can clean the paint off
the surface of the water pretty easily
just using some paper towels you can see
that at this point the paint is sort of
a plasticy film and it doesn’t stick to
things as well in this state which is
why we want to spray and then have
everything prepped so we can just dip it
in immediately because it won’t grip as
well if the paint isn’t as new
I’ve got another little squirt gun that
if primer it up let’s choose a couple
other colors and try painting this one
this time we’re gonna try purple and
pink see how that gun turns out is
interesting our pink is responding a
little bit differently than other paints
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hmm that pink color went on really oddly
it sort of formed into that plastic
sheet that I was explaining about
immediately as soon as it hit the water
the purple did a really good job so I
like how that turned out but the pink
you can see like this is just thin
sheets of plastic and it didn’t like to
spread it all so it didn’t stretch going
over the contours of the gun it’s not a
terribly ruined effect but it doesn’t
work as nicely as some colors so you may
have to experiment with which colors are
gonna work the best we’ve had one
successful test with a squirt gun and
one less than successful test with the
squirt gun now we’re gonna move on to
trying something else this is a phone
case that I’ve taped off and painted
with our white primer we’re gonna see if
we can give this a nice swirled marble
texture I’m gonna see if I can get three
different colors to work all at once of
this one alternating which one I spray a
bit of an experiment
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ooh oh I’m liking the look of that quite
a bit missing
stringy bits but I think those are all
attached to the tape not the case itself
I can we’ve got some good swirl patterns
going there is a neat case pattern that
phone case works so well we’re gonna try
one more I have another case here which
has a little bit of a texture to it and
I’m not sure how that’s gonna change how
well the paint bonds to it but I have
taped this off and hit it with our
primer so let’s try a different pattern
I’m gonna go for red and black on this
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you
hmmm a little bit of mixed results that
this red really seems to like to spread
out overall I like the look
I like the switching between colors and
it still kept most of the texture
beneath our paint which is pretty cool
however you can see that we’re getting
sort of a Pinker look over here and I
was hoping for a little bit more red but
overall I think this is still a pretty
sweet design I did want it to be all red
but if it couldn’t be all red I at least
liked that the thinner spot is almost
centered around the camera hole so it
looks like it’s all radiating out from
that point one more thing that we’re
gonna try grant wanted me to see if I
could successfully use this hydrogen
method on the slide of his Glock so
we’re gonna try and give this a sort of
snow camo look using black gray and
white and we’ll see how it’s turned out
I’ve tried to tape off every bit of the
surface that I don’t want painted it’s
still going to be a bit of an experiment
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all right there we go we had a bit of an
ordeal getting our paints to really work
the gray was doing the same thing as the
pink and that it would kept just turning
into sort of a plastic film as soon as
it hit the water I think the solution
was actually just to keep shaking the
whole can up a lot so the paint inside
was much more evenly mixed that seemed
to fix it with the gray I’m I wanted to
do another test with the pink and see if
it’s doing the same thing overall though
I think we got a pretty cool swirled
snow camo effect on this slide so we’ll
let this dry and then we’ll attach it
back to the gun and see how it all looks
there we go the pieces that we hydro
dipped have now had plenty of time to
dry out and completely cure so now we’re
gonna do is hit them with a layer of
clear coat and hopefully that will make
it so that they’re safe to handle and we
won’t have any paint chipping you’re
coming off
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they have an at-home method of Hydra
dipping using spray paint and water we
don’t mean to imply that guns and phone
cases are the only things that you can
do this with there are all sorts of
materials that would work great for
Hydra dipping and some of them would
actually get handled less than squirt
guns and phone cases so the spray paint
may hold up a little longer on there if
you try this at home we want to know
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see you there sometimes you can swirl
them around a bit you can get a little
bit more of a marbled texture which can
also look pretty neat five guns and two phone cases no other examples