gremlin said:
what kind of silicone are you useing....the household stuff or the hobbie stuff....i ask because the general rule for silicone is you cant paint over it, you need to mix oil paint (or a gloss) with the silicone as its wet then let it set like that. so the only way it paint silicone it to paint silicone with colored silicone....i found that out with norma bates version 1.... it does look like you mixed in the paint when you coated it the first time....am i correct or did you just paint over it....with that said, you might have to live with the lack of shine as it is
Hi
(warning: bad spelling follows)
I tried out a few, but the best was
this household silicone. I used a few colored (Black, brown, red, white) and a LOT transparent.
The "coloring" was tricky. I combined:
- the base (factory) colors
- I ordered a
Smooth-On Silc Pig - Silicone Pigments
- I used (werry)
hi quality oil paints (transparent + semi-transparent, this has only coloring pigments and only a little transfer subsracte)
Link to the work progress of the
Pred Skin -> to see, how the paints and the layers lookt ower time.
Link to the masking of Alien head
Whit the "shine" and the wet look:
The "transparent silicones turn "opalescent" and a little whiter.
I experimented a lot and taken a few ideas from car polishers. whit the had the best resoult.
Whit very diluted and thin (transparent) silicone + coloring pigment (black + 1 blue + 1 gray + black agan) -> a LOT thin layers
I had experimented On the NECK -> 16-20 layers -> The pigments are "floated" and semi transparent -> whit this mutch layers the scin has a little "depht" and even so it only 1-2 mm thick.
will use the same technik on the rest of the head on summer.
I hope it helped