Yes I too have been thinking of doing a custom paint job on a figure. I wanted to know if figures are usually primed before they get the paint treatment. Also, what paint medium works best, acrylic or oil based ? I will post pics in the future if it turns out. Thanks for all info.
I'm about to do the same and have been doing a lot of research on this. The overwhelming majority recommend priming. There are primers for plastic, but apparently auto primers work fine too. It's just gonna hold the paint/ink a whole lot better & cleaner and it makes sense. I'm gonna customize my skull Kun & Ko (bootlegs) and enter the Munny contest on KR. I'll let you know how my progress goes if you do the same.
make sure you use the right paints, because acylics will never dry. VR appears to be the overwhelming favorite. I think it is made by tamiya.
If the figure in question you're going to customize is a hollow vinyl figure, Tamiya's V-Color is what's normally used for that. There's no priming involved. However, it's very tricky to mix and to import it you might need a permit. The end result, however, is as authentic as you can get. Paul Kaiju is the resident expert. I'm sure he'll have something to add.
Big ? Can these be brushed on or are they airbrush only ? This may be a one time thing and I don't own an airbrush !
I don't get it, what's big? I'm pretty sure V-Color can be brushed or sprayed on. If you don't decide to go for V-Color, whatever you settle for, make sure you find a paint that is designed to stick to vinyl.
I think this V-color is actually made by Irisawa, but the Tamiya paints looks fairly similar. Paul had a lot to say about this stuff in the earlier thread about his customized Blobpus...
Right ! Irisawa! As compared to Tamiya, BIG DIFFERENCE! V color actually fusues with the vinyl. It's the stuff M-1 uses. Tamiya sits on top, and stays sorta tacky. Priming actualy doesn't do much good. V-color is extremely hard to find right now, but you can use Tamiya, and clean it off to re paint once you get some V color?
