Thanks Mike, just was curious as to why you posted here.  I appreciate you posting your results of the EzeDope/paint mix not keeping.
Sky9pilot

Looking good. I'm curious why it's posted here rather than with the cookup with your build?

Tom - I started this search mostly because I could not find a red tissue that had any substance at all and since I use domestic tissue only (ordering any tissue and paying cross border costs is way too much) the Hallmark white has the most density of all their products. So, flying in the face of the axiom of painting red on red, etc., I went with the white and set out to develop the color I wanted. Since I use Eze dope and it's water soluble, I reasoned I could color it with most any water based color I wanted so I chose watercolor since it is nearly transparent thinking it would give me color without clouding the translucency. It took two tubes of watercolor since I mixed up a lifetime supply of Eze dope in the standard 30/70 dilution. I started with red tissue and the results were less than good so went to the white and started with tissue stretched on my test frames and the color was way off being too much red. To get that Bing Cherry color shown in the photo it definitely needed blue so added what I thought would be enough, mixed it in and sprayed it on. The density added up very quickly and needed to be thinned considerably and the pressure increased on the airbrush. I tried brushing the mix and as I mentioned, it broke into streaks and was rather ugly. I went back to spraying and the result is very thin dope (seems to be thinner than the usual 30/70 mix) and 20 PSI at the airbrush.
Mike

After several tests (this is not the Fang wing but a test wing I had laying around) with the color the actual application of the colored dope went very well. Found this cannot be brushed on since something in the watercolor addition causes the color to break into streaks and dries very ugly. This is the final color and application trial and airbrushing this on works very well. It goes on smoothly and dries much faster than the traditional Eze Dope by itself. Application took about five passes to get the density I wanted while still keeping some translucency. This is going to be my solution for tissue I cannot find in whatever color I need.
Mike

I have been working on how to cover my Fang project to show as much continuity as possible between the balsa surfaces around the cowl and the open framework elsewhere. I started with Hallmark red tissue only to find it was nearly void of any color fibers but pushed on anyway. I reasoned that since I use water base dope I could color it with a water based material and settled on watercolor. After mixing the usual dilution (30/70) I added two tubes of Alizarin Crimson and stirred in using my powered tool. The second pic shows the results of that and definitely not acceptable but is progress, however the lack of density in the tissue is a non-starter and is showing signs of streaking. I have stretched plain white tissue on a frame and will pick up the test there and will spray the mixture if it continues to streak.
Mike