Skin painting help

[Digfoot]

When painting my first few coats of latex onto a lycra suit, can I work on a table and do one side at a time or should I keep the skin in a hung or standing position so I can paint over the whole thing in one sweep?

Would there be any problems with the lycra shrinking funny if slowly I paint one side at a time?

Can I get away with using just latex for my first coat without distilled water to thin it?

 

[Darth Pinhead]

The suit is over a duct tape dummy, correct?

 

[Digfoot]

Yeah a tape dummy built over an inflatable mannequin.