Messy Color™ Koala Ltd Run

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Koala Ltd Run (511823)<br />An opaque neutral grey.

An opaque neutral grey.


"Koala melted well in a moderate flame with no issues. You can see that the end of the rod has rings of colour ... suggesting it may be a striker, but the beads I made all came out a consistent colour [maybe something to bear in mind if you work it longer in the flame or even the soak time in the kiln perhaps?]. It's a beautiful soft grey that sits between Effetre 268 and 248." – Trudi Doherty

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Messy Koala
Nicole Valentine
Messy Koala
Kandice Seeber
CiM Koala
Gloria Sevey
Larger beads are a base of Koala, encased in Effetre steel grey and decorated with Peace polka dots. Smaller ones are plain Koala.
Trudi Doherty
Base of Koala with Prussian Blue which created extremely dark, almost black dots.
Darlene Collette
CiM Koala, Rainforest, Sherwood, Banana Cream, Troll, & Bone
Heike Loos

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  • Special thanks to Jolene Wolfe for providing the photo in this section.

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"Koala is a deep dense grey that stays grey - not brown, purple or blue. Not shocky to work with. Photo shows consistent color after being worked for 4 hours in the flame."
– Tammy Mercier
"Koala, in the rod, at my torch, looked like a warm brown, but here at my computer - it is more of a blue grey - pretty close to neutral though." Read more at DragonJools blog.
– Dwyn Tomlinson
"Koala is the actually grey one out of all these grey-looking rods. It has striated here next to the New Ivory and produced strong dark lines but from the bottom of the bead looks like it would stay pretty uniform away from that." Read more at Heather's blog.
– Heather Kelly
"Koala is a lovely true medium neutral grey - not too blue and not too brown. It's lighter and cooler than Adamantium. In rod form, it actually does have a bluish cast, but that goes away when melted, for the most part. As a plain spacer, it retains much of its shade, but when encased in clear Koala lightens up quite a bit, as you can see here with the spacers I made." Read more at Kandice's blog.
– Kandice Seeber
"Koala melted well in a moderate flame with no issues. You can see that the end of the rod has rings of colour ... suggesting it may be a striker, but the beads I made all came out a consistent colour [maybe something to bear in mind if you work it longer in the flame or even the soak time in the kiln perhaps?]. It's a beautiful soft grey that sits between Effetre 268 and 248."
– Trudi Doherty
"I like the bright crisp tone to this pretty grey, it does not appear to have striations when worked." Read more at Kitzbitz Art Glass' blog.
– Jolene Wolfe
"This dark slate gray flows with ease and is a joy to sculpt. When introduced to enamels, the glass did not bubble or matte like other grays, but remained clean and true to the original color."
– Heather Sellers