You all know the famous Glas-Bed kits that come from Iowa in the green box (which is the Gel variety) ?  Well, you get the two tubs, one is the resin and the other is the hardener.  They also include a tiney amount of brown dye.   

I'm out of the brown dye (yea, I know they sell the dye seperately) and was wondering if there might be a substitue coloring tint that can be used with these glass bedding kits ?  Perhaps shoe polish, etc. ?  Anyone ever face this situation ?

The problem is that any dye that has a grease base will probably act like the "release agent" and the stuff will never harden.

Anyone know how to successfully solve this situation?  Thanks guys !

Go to a good body shop/boat repair shop and get pigment for epoxy used in repairing fiberglass.  Or, find a good paint store and get pigment for acrylic paint.   

David
Three blocks away from those folks.

     After wasting a lot of money I ordered brown dye from Brownell's, I tried everything, shoe polish,food coloring.nail polish. clothing dye, nothing worked--spent three times the amount of the Brownell's dye.   leadball

I've used both gel and regular AG, but I never thought the gel set up as hard. 

The black and brown tints that are sold for these color the AG well. Just takes a tad, not much.

Regards, Ron