Just an update on the build, as I know it's been a while. I had painted my entire costume and was ready to move on to the next steps in the process but when I started unmasking the pieces, all the paint peeled off. See my post here:
I painted my foam armor with black plasti-dip, then Rust-Oleum gloss black as a base coat, then Rust-Oleum bright coat metallic for weathering and doing paint chipping, then I put toothpaste on the areas I wanted to chip off and painted Rust-Oleum colonial red on top of the silver. The problem...
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I figured out it was because I had painted everything silver first in an attempt to follow one of the tutorials on weathering. Moral of the story, never try to paint a lower gloss paint on a higher gloss paint unless you know exactly what you're doing.
So after months of applying acetone to my costume and peeling off all the paint, I finally repainted my costume and have begun weathering
Here is a picture of the paint job pre-weathering. I decided to go with a different color scheme than my original maroon/black idea because I don't want to think about how badly it failed last time
