Adding Cracked Indices To Your Vintage Dial the DD Way

[toomanywatches 0]

This is an adjunct to the earlier dial painting tutorial, making your dial even more "Vintage." These are the items you need: Crackling agent, finished dial and fine applicator/oiler (fine sewing needle will work)

 

 

With small amount of Glass Gallery crackle medium in container, apply compound to front of indices of finished dial:

 

 

Dial with crackle medium applied to all the indices/numbers:

 

 

Let dial dry for 30 minutes or more... With time more cracks will appear, so check periodically to decide at what point there are enough crackling of the indices:

 

 

Prepare some powdered color pencil pigment. Choose a color that contrasts enough with the color of indices. In this case I picked powdered white color pencil pigment to contrast with black lume/resin fill:

 

 

Apply with brush, pushing powdered pigment into cracks of the indices:

 

 

 

Brush/blow away excess powdered pigment from indices, do any touch up with other pigment to dial. Seal dial with light coat/spray of clear matte lacquer:

 

The final results of finished dial with cracked indices:

 

 

Another example of process... In this case, crackling compound allowed to dry for longer time (overnight) to give more cracking and larger cracks in the indices of the dial:

 

 

Thanks for looking... Get building!!!

[dingle 57]

Hey DD.....did not know you had a different name over here....

 

[JohnG 41]

Great work and great tutorial, thanks!

[solkryssare 109]

Amazing work! Im very very impressed.