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Soaking is probably going to produce a much better/more durable finish than painting-on. You can use some sort of masking layer to shield sections you don't want dyed (or died different colors.) the problem with painting on is it's going to need more time to soak in to the part, than paint that merely dries onto the surface.
RIT dyes have worked okay for me. My process was to paint on masking fluid and let it soak in a hot dye bath. The fluid dries into what is basically a latex rubber coating that can then get rubbed off.
I'm not really concerned about how long it takes to do the work, but I like the masking idea.
It’s not really “work”- so much as an ocd level of attention to extremely tedious details.
Some tips: print off a small parts with all the same kind of features as the final bits so you can see how it takes, and stagger the time so you see how much time it takes.
Then use a white or natural color filament- the brighter the white, the more brilliant the final color will be. Especially important for light colors like cyan or yellow.
As far as masking goes, if you wanted color details on black, you can do a full soak with that color and then black (or a mix of all the other colors, the color scheme is CMYK not rbg) and you mask off where the details are supposed to be.
You mean for the dyes? I thought this color schemes were for representing colors on a screen, not for physical dyes.
RBG is the digital. CMYK is print and paint.
edit to clarify: RBG is additive color. Think of it as RBGW leds- when you mix light from the source, red blue and green =white. CMYK is subtractive, IE, the color you see is what's left behind after it hits a surface and bounces off. this is why when you mix red green and blue paint, you get brown, rather than black.