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"Greetings, humans, and welcome to Installation 405. Ignore prior warnings, and please continue on this thread."
So here the gist: I'm almost done hot-gluing my Mk. IV Spartan Armor, and it's coming high timey time to start to paintn' the pieces silly. Now, I live in the sweet, sweet college dorms where everyone lives on caffine, pizza, and sleep deprivation. But alas...
I can't use spray paint inside.
HOWEVER! I have thought of grand plan of how to paint (that's totally 100% fool-proof), and I'm wondering how well you all think it will work (or not be 100% fool-proof 'n turn into a living ball of foam and sludge). Now normally someone would use something like plexidip to seal the EVA foam, but I'm of the.... Socially exotic kind. So I'm just thinking I can melt the tushens off of it with a heat gun for a latta damage. But my granderyest plan that I need help with is.............. PAINT!
....More specifically paint you'd normally back-hand slap onto a wall to make it feel pretty, then call it a day cracking a cold one with all the friends you don't have.
Now, I haven't seen anyone else ask (within a reasonable time of within, like, 5 years) about how to paint armor indoors and I was wondering how well you guys think using interior paint would work. You know, the wet goopy stuff that's Fun to Play with, Not to Eat!™ and stains anything tangible within darn near close to a 30 foot radius?
What are all of your thoughts of how well that'd work?
Edit: All is said and done. Final decision: Use a heat gun to seal and liquid acrylic paint to paint the sucker. Worked out rather well if I do say so meself. I'll be posting photos in a separate thread soon my little titanium armored dudes of death.
So here the gist: I'm almost done hot-gluing my Mk. IV Spartan Armor, and it's coming high timey time to start to paintn' the pieces silly. Now, I live in the sweet, sweet college dorms where everyone lives on caffine, pizza, and sleep deprivation. But alas...
I can't use spray paint inside.
HOWEVER! I have thought of grand plan of how to paint (that's totally 100% fool-proof), and I'm wondering how well you all think it will work (or not be 100% fool-proof 'n turn into a living ball of foam and sludge). Now normally someone would use something like plexidip to seal the EVA foam, but I'm of the.... Socially exotic kind. So I'm just thinking I can melt the tushens off of it with a heat gun for a latta damage. But my granderyest plan that I need help with is.............. PAINT!
....More specifically paint you'd normally back-hand slap onto a wall to make it feel pretty, then call it a day cracking a cold one with all the friends you don't have.
Now, I haven't seen anyone else ask (within a reasonable time of within, like, 5 years) about how to paint armor indoors and I was wondering how well you guys think using interior paint would work. You know, the wet goopy stuff that's Fun to Play with, Not to Eat!™ and stains anything tangible within darn near close to a 30 foot radius?
What are all of your thoughts of how well that'd work?
Edit: All is said and done. Final decision: Use a heat gun to seal and liquid acrylic paint to paint the sucker. Worked out rather well if I do say so meself. I'll be posting photos in a separate thread soon my little titanium armored dudes of death.
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