Help with colours.

[ZombieLloyd]

Hey guys, I've been thinking about starting to water cool and I kind of have an idea for a Bloodborne themed thing, I'm wondering how to get a thick looking blood red colour. All colours I've seen look like what they are -  literally just coloured distilled water so I'm kind of wondering how to make it look thicker if at all possible.

[Shiv78]

either premixed coolant or bloodred tubing from Primochill

[ZombieLloyd]

4 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

either premixed coolant or bloodred tubing from Primochill

How good is the bloodred tubing? I had considered getting it but I've heard that people are complaining about it.

[Shiv78]

28 minutes ago, ZombieLloyd said:

How good is the bloodred tubing? I had considered getting it but I've heard that people are complaining about it.

oh idk about the quality, I was just recommending it cuz I saw someone link a type of tubing in a thread and I googled the name and the bloodred was the first to come up, lol

[W-L]

8 hours ago, ZombieLloyd said:

How good is the bloodred tubing? I had considered getting it but I've heard that people are complaining about it.

Transparent red tubing is nice but doesn't have the same depth as red fluid and clear tubing, it's mainly preference but personally I like to go with colored fluids and clear tubing. Some good transparent red fluids would be mayhems X1 or EKWB's cryofuel. 

[Shiv78]

4 hours ago, W-L said:

Transparent red tubing is nice but doesn't have the same depth as red fluid and clear tubing, it's mainly preference but personally I like to go with colored fluids and clear tubing. Some good transparent red fluids would be mayhems X1 or EKWB's cryofuel. 

is there UV red coolant/dye?

[W-L]

1 minute ago, Shiv78 said:

is there UV red coolant/dye?

Yes UV red does exist but doesn't really glow the same as UV green or blues which are the most vibrant. 

http://www.performance-pcs.com/mayhems-x1-coolant-1-liter-uv-red.html

[ZombieLloyd]

10 hours ago, W-L said:

Transparent red tubing is nice but doesn't have the same depth as red fluid and clear tubing, it's mainly preference but personally I like to go with colored fluids and clear tubing. Some good transparent red fluids would be mayhems X1 or EKWB's cryofuel. 

Yeah, I was thinking of going with some red fluid anyway since the theme is Bloodborne, I wanted the reservoir to look like a bloodpack from the trailer. it is quite transparent in the trailer, now that I think of it. Thanks for your suggestions with this too. I can't find the red tubing in stock here in the UK anymore anyway.

 

5 hours ago, Shiv78 said:

is there UV red coolant/dye?

There is, but I kind of wanted a darker red, and UV reds usually look brighter than what I'm going for. Plus, I'd need to buy UV led strips or something with that, wouldn't I? There's no point in having UV colours and not using that effect. Though I do like UV blue a lot. Maybe I'll use that in my next build.

[W-L]

3 hours ago, ZombieLloyd said:

Yeah, I was thinking of going with some red fluid anyway since the theme is Bloodborne, I wanted the reservoir to look like a bloodpack from the trailer. it is quite transparent in the trailer, now that I think of it. Thanks for your suggestions with this too. I can't find the red tubing in stock here in the UK anymore anyway.

 

There is, but I kind of wanted a darker red, and UV reds usually look brighter than what I'm going for. Plus, I'd need to buy UV led strips or something with that, wouldn't I? There's no point in having UV colours and not using that effect. Though I do like UV blue a lot. Maybe I'll use that in my next build.

For soft tubing primochill makes a pretty nice deep transparent red color.

 

As for a blood bag looking res I haven't seen anything like that before, it would need to be something custom made and ensure it doesn't yellow or leech plastizers into the loop. 

 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00CS10MDO/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1506936283&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=primochill+red&dpPl=1&dpID=41wnNlWI8aL&ref=plSrch

[ZombieLloyd]

1 hour ago, W-L said:

For soft tubing primochill makes a pretty nice deep transparent red color.

 

As for a blood bag looking res I haven't seen anything like that before, it would need to be something custom made and ensure it doesn't yellow or leech plastizers into the loop. 

 

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00CS10MDO/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1506936283&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=primochill+red&dpPl=1&dpID=41wnNlWI8aL&ref=plSrch

Yeah, that tubing is what I was looking at. WatercoolingUK actually has that same size for half the price so I'll get the tubing from there. Actually, they don't have any good reviews so I'll just get the ones you linked to.

 

I didn't literally mean a bag style reservoir, just that sort of red colouring. I don't think it'd look good going with clear fluid from the res going into red tubes. So I was going to get some red concentrate to go into the distilled water.

[W-L]

12 hours ago, ZombieLloyd said:

Yeah, that tubing is what I was looking at. WatercoolingUK actually has that same size for half the price so I'll get the tubing from there. Actually, they don't have any good reviews so I'll just get the ones you linked to.

 

I didn't literally mean a bag style reservoir, just that sort of red colouring. I don't think it'd look good going with clear fluid from the res going into red tubes. So I was going to get some red concentrate to go into the distilled water.

If your looking for a red fluid then Mayhems blood red is pretty good. 

https://mayhems.co.uk/coolants/x1-coolants/x1-concentrate-250ml/x1-uv-blood-red-250ml/

[ZombieLloyd]

8 hours ago, W-L said:

If your looking for a red fluid then Mayhems blood red is pretty good. 

https://mayhems.co.uk/coolants/x1-coolants/x1-concentrate-250ml/x1-uv-blood-red-250ml/

 

That's actually perfect. Also good news on the red tubing. EKWB actually sells it in 3M packs so I can get it from there. Thanks so much for your help with both my posts on the water cooling things. Hopefully when I'm done it'll be worth showing off on the forum.

[Shiv78]

13 hours ago, ZombieLloyd said:

That's actually perfect. Also good news on the red tubing. EKWB actually sells it in 3M packs so I can get it from there. Thanks so much for your help with both my posts on the water cooling things. Hopefully when I'm done it'll be worth showing off on the forum.

I'd either get clear tubes+red fluid or red tubes+distilled water. Both is kinda a waste of money as red tubes won't show the fluid inside as being red. (unless you get a red reservoir)

[ZombieLloyd]

9 hours ago, Shiv78 said:

I'd either get clear tubes+red fluid or red tubes+distilled water. Both is kinda a waste of money as red tubes won't show the fluid inside as being red. (unless you get a red reservoir)

Well, the red tubing is actually cheaper than EKWB's own clear tubing by about £5, so that's why I'm going with red over clear tubing. Normally, the red tubing is like £30, but they have a "limited stock" price of £9.60. All these should be euros, not pounds but they're practically 1:1 these days. Plus, I don't want to go with just distilled water because the red fluid in the reservoir is the main part of my theme. But yes, I do agree that red tubing would otherwise be a waste of money, I'm just ordering everything from EKWB and their clear tubing is more expensive than the red tubing they're selling, for the exact same length.