Painting Appliances

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After researching many different methods of painting foam lagtex appliances, I decided to contact Peter Tindall to confirm the best way for me to approach painting my appliances.

From researching how Terminator was painted, I found that these materials weren't necessarily the most suitable to use on foam latex. As a result, Pete confirmed that using oil paint will give me the desired effect with a black undercoat to make the silver pop.

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Using Stan Winstons online forums, I was able to get in touch with people in the industry for advice on my projrct.

In this situation, I asked about paiting my main characters foam latex headpiece, as I want this to have a realistic metal-look finish.

Patching - I looked on Stan Winstons Forum and found different methods people used. As I didn't have foam to hand, I used liquid latex and cabosil on my tes head. This worked when hairdried, however it was discoloured due to the nature of latex.

I also used cabopatch to fill airbubbles and this was also a good method as the pax stuck to this effectively.

Scream Team, (n.d)

Monster Makers (2013)

Bray, S. (2009)

I used Stuart Brays instructions on the left to guide me through painting my foam piece.

This was a very clear step by step guide which was extremely helpful considering I hadn't worked with Foam latex before.

I built up the paint job in layers, ensureing I made it as transparent as possible. This example was too orange on the brain, so for my final piece, I will use weaker colours.

METAL PAINT

FOAM LATEX - MIXING PROCESS

Here's the process of painting the final head, I decided to take it off the head before I finished it, as the Pax paint sticks together.

This brian was a lot paler and looking back at my brain research, I tohought this was more appropriate.