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I tend to paint my numbers using airbrush paints for miniatures (thinner and heavily pigmented so they coat well). I paint them before the final polishing paper so the polishing removes any overspill.
Regarding the UV resin, I would think viscosity might control the concavity. Doing a warm water bath of the bottle might be able to control things a bit. I know it impacts the end result of my "dragon scale" dice.
Good call, it could be that my room was warmer when I did the ones that ended up perfectly even. I do water down my acrylics so the coat better when I use them and a lot of them are model paints, I do the painting before the polish the same too, the UV resin just leaves tougher residue so it has to go on first and get sanded.
I would like to see your dragon scale dice, you should post them.