Best way to painting elastic material/resin(etc.hands,...)?

[elar]

Hi, what is the best way to paint elastic materials like elastic resin on hands? To aware of cracking paint on them?

 

[**16k**]

I don't know if this thing would work but I've recently found a way to paint silicon. I haven't tried it yet though.

Basically, you need some translucent silicon for bathroom joints, oil painting and lighter fluid.

You dilute the translucent silicon with the lighter fluid and mix your paint with it. When it dries up, the lighter fluid evaporates and what remains is a pigmented silicon layer.

Maybe that could work here too!

 

[elar]

=-O Wow, what kind of alchemy is this? Thanks for tip

 

[RavenEye]

Ski said ya can only paint silicone, with well silicone.

 

[mark7612]

Mix acrylic paint with liquid latex or buy latex based paints. You can get both and some info at monstermakers.com

 

[elar]

Thank you. And makeup latex will hold on surface?

 

[IDMCustoms]

Smooth-on makes a product called Psycho Paint that would work well for something like this. It's a silicone based paint that is mainly used for latex masks. More info here:

https://www.smooth-on.com/Silicone-Rubber-an/c2_1115_1198/index.html

I bet it would work for soft plastics. I have not personally tried it for action figures since I have only been using acrylic paints, but if it works for latex masks which are much more flexible, it should work for plastic too.