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<blockquote data-quote="Cruentus" data-source="post: 9101701" data-attributes="member: 7034645"><p>I’ll suggest a couple of options, but I make no guarantees that this will work or that it might not eventually hurt or damage the model.</p><p></p><p>1) the first thing you could try would be to just use a black wash (many available from multiple paint manufacturers - Games Workshop, Vallejo, Army Painter, Reaper, etc). Doing a couple of rounds of straight wash over the miniature will darken it enough (and black should really be a dark blue, so the blue minis helps here). When you are done, a short bath in LA Totally Awesome cleaner (found in DIY stores or dollar stores) will easily remove the black wash, but might also remove the blue paint. Actually, any paint remover is likely to also remove the blue.</p><p></p><p>2) paint the model with acrylic black paint (any kind, even craft store) to get the look you want, and then, same as above, soak it in a degreaser or paint remover and scrub it off. Without a primer coat under it, it shouldn’t really adhere too much, and should survive handling in play.</p><p></p><p>the caveat is that there are lots of different ‘plastic’ materials out there, and they may all react differently to LA Totally Awesome, Simple Green, or Purple Power, which are all removers I’ve used on all kinds of plastics and resins; and the other side are the paint thinner/removers, baths in straight Pine Sol, or scrubbing with rubbing alcohol, which I’ll use for metal models, but not any kind of plastics. </p><p></p><p>Hope those help. With anything, doing a test model to see how it works never goes wrong. I’ve created several puddles of plastic after putting a plastic model in a paint stripper that was, I realized after, way too strong. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😁" title="Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png" data-shortname=":grin:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cruentus, post: 9101701, member: 7034645"] I’ll suggest a couple of options, but I make no guarantees that this will work or that it might not eventually hurt or damage the model. 1) the first thing you could try would be to just use a black wash (many available from multiple paint manufacturers - Games Workshop, Vallejo, Army Painter, Reaper, etc). Doing a couple of rounds of straight wash over the miniature will darken it enough (and black should really be a dark blue, so the blue minis helps here). When you are done, a short bath in LA Totally Awesome cleaner (found in DIY stores or dollar stores) will easily remove the black wash, but might also remove the blue paint. Actually, any paint remover is likely to also remove the blue. 2) paint the model with acrylic black paint (any kind, even craft store) to get the look you want, and then, same as above, soak it in a degreaser or paint remover and scrub it off. Without a primer coat under it, it shouldn’t really adhere too much, and should survive handling in play. the caveat is that there are lots of different ‘plastic’ materials out there, and they may all react differently to LA Totally Awesome, Simple Green, or Purple Power, which are all removers I’ve used on all kinds of plastics and resins; and the other side are the paint thinner/removers, baths in straight Pine Sol, or scrubbing with rubbing alcohol, which I’ll use for metal models, but not any kind of plastics. Hope those help. With anything, doing a test model to see how it works never goes wrong. I’ve created several puddles of plastic after putting a plastic model in a paint stripper that was, I realized after, way too strong. 😁 [/QUOTE]
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