"Painting Soft Plastic Scenery" Topic
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 Grelber  | 04 May 2013 8:12 a.m. PST |
I recently bought the JR Miniatures swamp, which is made of a soft, floppy plastic. The water is painted a suitably disgusting shade of green, the better to conceal duck muck, alligators, venomous snakes, etc. But the finish is dead flat. It's water, after all, and I'd like it to be shiny. Can anyone recommend a suitable product?
Criteria:
1. Needs to make it shiny
2. Shouldn't dissolve the plastic (!!)
3. Needs to flex with the plastic, not crack Grelber |
| Feet up now | 04 May 2013 8:26 a.m. PST |
Try plasticote ,quite flexible and generally handy to have for DIY anyway.
I did find a rough texture one too which is very good for terrain,but found none at the store since so what I have left is closely guarded. warning extreme flex will crack it ,but for gaming its fine.
EDIT they have a website plasti-kote.co.uk/index.html
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| rigmarole | 04 May 2013 8:34 a.m. PST |
Future should work well for this application. |
| Sgt Slag | 04 May 2013 9:01 a.m. PST |
+1 on Pledge with Future Shine floor wax. It is high gloss, made to coat floors for people to walk on, with shoes, and it won't dull! It is tough, water based, and it dries within minutes. Paint it on with inexpensive school paint brushes (20 for $1 USD at Wal-Mart), and throw the brush when done. Cheers! |
| Rubber Suit Theatre | 04 May 2013 1:51 p.m. PST |
Future is not flexible. Had to change my whole painting technique for the Reaper Bones because of this fact. Ceramcoat gloss sealer seems to be reasonably flexible (as flexible as acrylic paint, anyway). |
 War Artisan  | 04 May 2013 8:17 p.m. PST |
Clear silicone bathroom caulk dries shiny, adheres to just about anything, and is impossible to crack by flexing or rolling up. |
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