I have some small rubber plungers that will look great as oil / fuel drums but I need to paint / colour them .... any ideas ?
Chris
Painting Rubber ?
May 01, 2009
5 Replies
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
How about the paint used to tart up car tyres?
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
Water based acrylics suggested by ....
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cheers, Simon
Thanks guys
I'll try the PVA glue "undercoat" :-)
Chris
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