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Feeling quite pleased with myself - two new things tried today, both of which turned out pretty decent...

Thing one was that I had an old dial that had three missing lume markers, presumably after a water ingress (water mark on dial). The remaining markers were nice and aged, so wanted to match that as best I could. Cracked out my daughter's acrylics and set about adding to my usual lume mix (clear acrylic matte and lume powder)... Voila! 

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Bonus points for guessing which are mine!

Thing two was that I had a new hand arrive for the W10 - I've never been happy with the match on the hour hand (and still have slight issues with both) but these are the best i can do. One was bright white, the other a very pale green tinge... I wanted to try and get both looking similar to the markers, and rather than reluming went for the coffee method, baking them at 180c for intervals of 5 minutes face down on the granules. The whiter of the two was also soaked in black coffee before baking. Not perfect, but better I think?

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Toying with the idea of having a crack at those scratches but really I should leave that alone... Might have a play on a test dial just to see... maybe! 

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34 minutes ago, RichardHarris123 said:

1, 10 and 11?

It's good but it's not quite right! (I see why you went that way, they're the least patina'd/closest to original colour of the lot. 

Better photo I hear you say? Lume shot? Sure thing! 

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