Customizing Jointed Hands: Painting Blushing or Dyeing

It would probably affect them the same way as getting them wet would...

 

Take an extra piece of elastic and dip it in the dye. Wait a while and see what happens, and if it doesn't break I guess dye the hands :3

 

Dye contains additional chemicals that water doesn't, though--and we already know it isn't a good idea to soak stringing elastic in water. Another consideration is that the dye probably won't coat all the edges of the individual pieces evenly when they're touching each other on the string.

Restringing all the fiddly little bits may be a pain, but I can't help thinking the end results would be a lot better than ending up with blotchy color or elastic that wears out prematurely (or breaks at the worst possible moment, which is what elastic likes to do . . . ).

 

I've dyed elastic, though not as small as whats going thought the fingers..and it will dye just fine I did a OD-So JI doll who is only 4" tall all at once..but you may want to put the hand in a strainer of some sort, because the elastic may break/melt and you wouldn't want to lose pieces of the finger in the container of hot dye and water as it would get too dark an possibly warp the resin.

 

I took Adrian's hand apart before I dyed it, stringing the individual fingers "daisy-chain" fashion on a given piece of string, and I dipped them in sequence and hung them in sequence.

I stupidly mixed them up when came the painting step, but things were actually pretty organized until I ... got stupid with the painting. Guide: if you're dying both hands, dye one, then the other, so you have a model correctly assembled to compare against once you're up to reassembling.

- Mel

 

Nah . . . sometimes we all have to learn by trial and error, right?

But I'm *really* glad that skin cells do eventually replace themselves with the normal color, and that finger joint didn't go down the drain!!

 

Awww, that stink-eth. Sorry bout your fingernails getting all icky, but I'm glad you recovered the finger! I probably would have done the same thing, so don't feel bad. You should just make sure you know how to restring the hands right before you dye them, so you don't have to mess with them after the fact.

 

I would've suggested stringing them veeeeeery loosely (so the dye can get between each digit, but you don't lose a finger) with some string.

 

I didn't find any thread about painting jointed hands, but if it exist, Mods please remove this thread.

So... I'm going to receive a pair of model H-B-70-05 jointed hands of DollZone from a friend of mine and i'd like to paint them. I don't know if it's possible to paint them, I know you can paint the nails but all of it I'm not sure (I want to paint them bronze). Is there anyone who know?

 

It's POSSIBLE, whether I'd call it ADVISABLE is another thing. Firstly, you'd need to unstring them and that's a world of pain, then you'd need to coat each teeny weeny part with MSC, then paint or dye, then coat again, then restring and all of this whilst not affecting the finish on the parts...and then you don't stand a snowballs chance in hell of keeping it from chipping on that scale and with the joints being moved all the time...so all in, do you REALLY want to do that, because it's a question of whether you can live with it constantly needing to be redone tbh.

 

If the hands are well sealed and not strung too tightly they won't need to be 'costantly' redone. Particularly if you dye them without coating first. If you want a metallic bronze, try adding a lot of bronze colored pearlex to the dye bath. I haven't seen the results myself, but a friend saw a doll done in silver this way and said it was pretty cool.

 

I have a pair of clawed DZ hands that I painted. They are now black and red. Though, I did not put paint in the joint because I knew they would chip. They do chip any way, but not so much. Mine had a lot of the substance that lets them come away from the mold so the MSC can't hold on that well.

Any way, it is possible to paint them, and if you don't want to paint the joints, you don't need to take them apart (I didn't) but as the above person said, they WILL need a fix up now and again.

 

Thanks guys ^-^ I think I'll try to dye them and see the result.

 

To dye them you really do need to unstring them. I think Buff had something in one of her full body dyeing tutorials, about how the hot water ruins the elastic in jointed hands and makes it snap, and then you have to chase down all those tiny pieces.

I've blushed several pairs of jointed hands, and its really not all that bad. They do chip a little bit in the joints, but if you go with a color that complements the skintone, you can kind of make it work.