How to change the dial text colour?

[devilseam]

I have just picked up a nice 5513, the dial lume has been redone by bigdazza and looks great, however the text is a sort of grey colour. The lume is very similar to this pic -

How can I get the text to match the lume as it does on this watch?

I loathed to change the dial as this one is nice, but I can't live with the greyish text.

[FxrAndy]

You can't really

[devilseam]

You can't really

Bugger!

[whoopy12]

While you can't completely change the color of the text, you can use an acrylic wash (aka watered-down paint) and create a yellow tint slowly, being careful to let each layer dry.

[freddy333]

A yellow matte varnish spray will yellow the lume (along with the rest of the dial) or a plain (non-yellow) matte varnish will slightly whiten it. Search this forum for 'matte varnish' for pics & additional details.

[CptTripps]

I did this yesterday with brown shoe-polish and my shoe-brush. The trick is knowing when to stop! I put the brown on, brushed lightly...added a little more....brushed lightly again. It looks almost gilt!

 

The paint on the dial was completely white when I started. Just used regular old Kiwi Brown Paste.

 

[FxrAndy]

I stand corrected that is quite effective!, would be difficult to do with non applied markers though

[CptTripps]

Not if you taped them off.

I only pulled mine because I'm spraying them tonight. I'd tried to go puffy, but it was too tall for the hands to clear.

This project is a LOT of work, but it's been fun too.