Plastidip

For my stickmen statue I was recommended a substance/material for the finish: Pastidip. Basically, it's spray paint (or just paint) that will cover your surface with rubber/plastic. Yes, aerosol plastic! It must be the must unnatural substance in the world. The fumes are pretty nasty though, so I ordered a spray paint (light chemical and particle filter) mask. As long as I'm not actually using concentrated asbestos in a can, I should be fine.

I got 2 cans of plastidip yesterday and have been experimenting on the finished. It's really quite impressive stuff, but doesn't work well with cloth or anything too absorbing, and to my surprise, it looks fantastic on bear tube, and really cool on duct tape. I need to do a couple more coats on my sample to have some realistic results (the thing need about 3 to 4 coats on average, might need 5 on duct tape). I'm actually thinking that high grade masking tape would be the best thing to have as an undercoat. Once the plastidip is applied, you can't tell what's under it, and it doesn't drip and looks quite homogeneous.