Painting Rubber ?

I have some small rubber plungers that will look great as oil / fuel drums but I need to paint / colour them .... any ideas ?

Chris

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Dragon Heart
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Have you tried and it doesn't work?

Short of any real knowledge, I would try a layer of PVA and then try painting that.

MBQ

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Man at B&Q

How about the paint used to tart up car tyres?

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Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply)

Any paint that you don't want to stick will stick, and whatever you do want will fall off. So accidentally spill some wrong colour on the rubber and leave it at that.

:-)

Chances are, though, if this a purely scenic item that won't be handled, almost anything will do. As someone else wrote, you could "undercoat" the item with dilute PVA glue first (and let it dry!). You could also put some water-soluble base colour in the glue.

PhilD

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phildeaves

Water based acrylics suggested by ....

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cheers, Simon

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simon

Thanks guys

I'll try the PVA glue "undercoat" :-)

Chris

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chris.brett58

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