Has anybody thought about "painting" chips?

[ChkDeezNuts]

Does anybody have an opinion on how to do this? Can it be done? What materials would be needed? Will it last?


Here is the project:

Buy plain pc.com chips.....use painters tape to "design" your edge spots and spray paint the edge spots on.....(you can do more than the three edge spots...you can do small edge spots...think of the possibilities...)

Can it be done?

The reason I post this is because I want to do a set with the Bellagio edge spots (small, simple, many)

[Deakon]

I have seen an adhesive spray used before on other "home" projects before that would have to be used before spraying. It is supposed to create a very strong bond between the paint and the material. I am not sure how it holds up, i.e. paint chipping or wearing with chip use. The spray had a very strange name, so I can't think of it off the top of my head. I though about trying this before, but not too sure if I wanted to sit around spraying and taping 2000 chips. The best thing to do is to create some kind of template that will allow you to just slip it over the chip, saving you tons of time. Let me know how it works out if you try something.

[Always_Bored]

no matter how good the paint you use is it will still come off as the edges start to wear down. plus the time it will take to mask then paint that many chips especially if you want more than one colour edge spot.

[MattyFatty4]

Yeah, I'm not so sure with how that would work. As the oil and dirt from your hands rub against the chips the paint would wear away. I can't see the paint lasting more than a few games. Anyway if you do decide to paint the chips post some pics of them, and also post pics of them after a couple games.

-Matt

[ram1962]

I remember someone trying model paints on the Faux Clay chips. The results were not very good and he couldn't imagine trying to paint an entire set.

[PocketRocket]

I think you're just going to ruin a set of chips when the paint starts to peel off soon after you've finished painting them. And the surface of the chip may not be that good for paint adhesion, so it may even start chipping ane peeling before you finsih painting the set. Real edge spots on clay chips are molded into the main body of the chip at high forces and hot temperatures. On injection molded chips, the plastic color of the edge spot goes all the way through the chip so that it will be there even as the chip wears.

Does anybody have an opinion on how to do this? Can it be done? What materials would be needed? Will it last?


Here is the project:

Buy plain pc.com chips.....use painters tape to "design" your edge spots and spray paint the edge spots on.....(you can do more than the three edge spots...you can do small edge spots...think of the possibilities...)

Can it be done?

The reason I post this is because I want to do a set with the Bellagio edge spots (small, simple, many)

[circlencircle]

Me a few other people talked about this a while back for the 10g faux dice chips. I tried it and posted pictures. The results were definitely not good. The pain rubs off/chips and ends up marking up the chips. It also makes it more difficult to shuffle and the painted area collects dirt. On top of this it’s extremely time consuming if you want them to look decent. This is a relative statement of course because I think it looks bad regardless. I agree with the statement that you would basically ruin the chips particularly if you did this to clay vs. composites or what have you.