Nice work getting started!
Can't wait to see your 6200 when it is finished.
You know what? Once you get that dial in the case and maybe scuff up the crystal a little bit, polish it back to clear, scuff it some more and polish it back again... I think the dial wouldn't look that bad. It looks like you had a little too much of whatever substance on there that you used, and when it dried it created a hill of dried material.
The biggest problem I see is the texture on the black surfaces in the center, again from excess liquid drying. A real dial wouldn't have developed that kind of hill effect, but the indices look good. Those Silix and Raffles dials are so messed up with the colors so something has to be done - it's just a matter of what method is used.
Here's a thought about the indices - I like the puffiness and uneven texture. The real dials used radium, which was blended with a reactive agent in the binder to produce the luminescence. The radium excited the agent, which in turn produced the glow. While radium has a half life of 1,000 years, the agent in the binder itself loses its reactive effect very quickly as the radium literally burns it out. So the gen dials today are still radioactive as hell, but the reactive agent in the binder has completely burned out and the markers have distorted in shape. Yours looks good. Gen radium dial markers have a lot of Earth tones in them, so just a thought - maybe add some more muddy tones to it?
I've never done this before myself, so I really have no idea what mine would turn out like either. Great first steps!
