"Painting Green Scrubbies?" Topic

I'm about to do up a stack of hedges out of green scrubbies. Any problem using enamel spray paints on these, or do they need acrylics?

I've never bothered painting them. They are green for a reason …

The monochrome shiny green does not appeal to me. I'm planning on hitting them with a variety of the stone-texture paints for better texture and vairegated colouring.

All I've ever done is drybrush over top of them..I guess if oyu did it enough times it would cover the shiny green

The other thing you can do is paint some thinned white glue on the outside and sprinkle on flock.

andy

I have not tried it directly, but the plastic of these scouring pads is very stable, so there should be no problem with any type of paint solvent attacking the plastic. One reason to use acrylics over enamel is the flexibility of the dried paint coat. It may be difficult to get paint to stick to the plastic. The paints made for coating plastic would be you best bet.

But with any painting experiment, run a small test patch on waste material to make sure you know how the materials will interact.

The monochrome shiny green does not appeal to me.

Shiny? My green scourers arean't shiny. I think you might be using the wrong type …

I'm using clean new ones ^,^

Just brushed on full strength white glue and rubbed in green flock.

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Jim

You can rough them up to make them look more organic, then drybrush them to add variety and take the shine off. But be careful when you cut them: they're release tons and tons of tiny little scrubby fibers 1-2mm long that are awful dermal irritants.

I always drybrushed up a nice dark yellow followed by a bone white. Takes the edge off the green and gives a little more depth to them.

I'm using clean new ones ^,^

Even so, they shouldn't be shiny.

I cover them in glue then flock them.