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Pop! Custom DIY figure?
So I recently bought a Pop! Custom vinyl figure and I'm not a sculptor or anything. I bought this just for fun and to mess around with it. I was wondering if it's possible for me to paint/decorate my figure without it being permanent so that I can erase and start all over again. Can I use certain markets and paints for temporary use that are removable?
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- Diane B.Lv 76 years ago
Most non-permanent paints are "flat" rather than glossy so you might not get much satisfaction from using those, though you could. Those would be poster paints, tempera paints, and watercolor paints primarily (watercolors aren't opaque tho).
Other answerers may know of some opaque temporary paints however.
It could work perhaps to first paint the whole figure, or areas you want to paint, with a non-permanent white glue (like Elmers Washable School Glue), let that dry (it should dry clear), then paint over the temporary glue with acrylic paints, etc (permanent paints).
Later, after washing or soaking the vinyl figure, the underlying non-permanent glue should come off bringing the dried acrylic paint "shell" with it.
Vinyl doesn't bond with most paints very well though, so it's possible that just painting with acrylic paints could allow you to soak the whole figure to loosen the paint then just peel it off.
Are you supposed to be able to paint the figures temporarily?
And do they recommend using some kind of primer to better hold any paint, which you could just not use?
