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Cool figure! The boots look awesome.
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Fantastic job on the boots! I am really digging your Jack O' Lantern too!Comment
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Walloping websnappers! Super job!"Do you believe, you believe in magic?
'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
If your mission is magic your love will shine true."
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awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome!!! looks very authentic, for sure! re: the different plastic on the pirate boots. If ever helpful for a good primer, consider finding Design Master 'Super Surface Sealer'. Use it on everything from styrofoam to original Mego heads. It pretreats the base to adapt the item to any paint. I used to hate it when I finally got the rght swatch, but the paint would stay tacky on a Mego part (anything from a head to a limb). In Canada, I get it from Michaels Craft Store. I sign up for their email specials and often get my craft spray paints at 50% off.
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Good job on the boots...Comment
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Thank you comicmike for the tip. Appreciate you!Check out ALL my customs at https://www.facebook.com/megowgshcustomsComment
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dang! that is the coolest. Attention to detail like this is what really sets it apart.
and I'll also chime in thanks to comicmike for the tip. Heading to Michaels later today to pick up some.Comment
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All good
I use light coats outside (for ventilation), and a hairdryer between coats (even tho' it dries fast). I like using the extra heat to bake things on for the longterm. I found out about it last year after an online search when problem-solving out my tacky-finish Dick Grayson head (& how to paint on rubber and vinyl) . May serve as a great trick on our vinyl ovenmitts, and rubber gloves and boots. Also, now that your boot top is an after-the-fact, & instead of removing the orange paint & starting over, may be helpful to share: Once I have painted something and it is still tacky, I had great results with forcing the paint to dry with painting a liquid over top of the item called "Cobalt Dryer". It's an inexpensive dark brown liquid for adding to oil paints available from deluxe art stores. It's even great with those little bottles of Testors model paint, dabbed into a small amount of paint separated out to your pallette. I find it helps tone down a gloss to more of a satin medium. For DG, after acetoning off his Robin mask and filling up his back-of-neck copyright info with many layers of Krazy Glue (making the inscription fade away), I had mixed up & applied the mocha swatch for the main DG head, finished the eyes, *but* I had used the wrong clear satin spray finish on it. Ugh! Because it stayed tacky, I dabbed on the Cobalt Dryer *overtop* the final piece. It dried that clear satin finish and toned down the satin gloss to a matte finish, and I *didn't* need to repaint those eyes and eyebrows again. After it was dry, any extra stain from the brown Cobalt Dryer liquid rinsed away with water. I also like how the brown medium tones a brighter oil paint-based color down (even a stark paper white to a creamier hue). Hope the info also helps.
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Beautiful! The new boots look fab... when you say the Rustoleum didn't take to the the two different boot parts equally, did you mean it remained tacky? Because I have had that problem with Rust oleum before myself...Warm up?! We may as well sit around this cigarette!Comment
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Dear Comic Mike-- how is this different from a primer? If its not a primer, do I need to prime before using it?awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome!!! looks very authentic, for sure! re: the different plastic on the pirate boots. If ever helpful for a good primer, consider finding Design Master 'Super Surface Sealer'. Use it on everything from styrofoam to original Mego heads. It pretreats the base to adapt the item to any paint. I used to hate it when I finally got the rght swatch, but the paint would stay tacky on a Mego part (anything from a head to a limb). In Canada, I get it from Michaels Craft Store. I sign up for their email specials and often get my craft spray paints at 50% off.
MattWarm up?! We may as well sit around this cigarette!Comment
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Austin, tx 4 the deets..
Matt, i'm sure any pimer works, but i'm partial to Super Surface Sealer because i have, i use it & i love it.
-MikeComment
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Boots came out great!!This is a mad house, A MAD HOUSE!!Comment
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