How to give your Props some Paint

Many of you guys asked me, how I paint my props and armor. Better: How my husband paints my props and armor. So, I justed recorced it for you and hope this helps you with you own project a bit.
Benni spent about 5 hours for the paint job and used only some acrylics and brushes. And when everything is done I sealed it with a finish. This saves the paint itself and increases the colors. That's the big secret!

Here you'll find a little video where I show you how I fixed my pauldrons of my Druid Tier 9 and Tier 8 costume and in addition you'll see a lot of my Asmodian Gladiator armor fixing. Hope it will help you with your own projects!

If you want to know more about my work, visit my blog on http://kamuicosplay.blogspot.com/
or follow the progress of my projects on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/KamuiCos

You can also visit Benni's website at
http://www.theblackman.de

Music by longzijun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mNw9iXZPXg

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[MsStardustFaerie]

Wow! This is amazing. Thank you so much for your tutorials. I just have a quick question: How do you affix the gems to your armour? Do you put it in the expanding foam? Or do you put them on another way?

[Mogrymillian]

@MsStardustFaerie

You're welcome!

They are mostly fixed with hotglue. This time I glued them into these rings and then fixed the rings with the gems inside at the paudrons.

[heartofsteal1001]

without the time lapse about how long did painting this take?

[Mogrymillian]

@heartofsteal1001

Uh... I guess he worked for two evenings, each 4 or 5 hours? Well, it was a lot!

[BillyNoMate]

Thats one patient painter! good work!

I wonder what result one would get if airbrushing was used instead. time to visit wiki i think.

[Mogrymillian]

@BillyNoMate

We wanted to try it next year!

[FoxFind]

What did you do to make it so smooth? Can you use sandpaper to make it smooth or will it take chunks out of the foam?

[DieAlteistwiederda]

Wie viel hat diese Rüstung insgesamt so gekostet?

Und wie viele Stunden Arbeit stecken da drin?

Und ja ich fühle mich merkwürdig hier als scheinbar einziger auf Deutsch zu schreiben.xD

[merlin207]

Half assed.

Hahaha, you are the best!

[MORTraineysWIFE]

He's so fantastic when it comes to painting! I just finish building my cosplay weapon and tomorrow I'm painting it. I hope I don't screw it up.

[WhaleFan2D]

Wow! Richtig geil! O___O Ich würd ihn mir gern mal ausleihen XD Denn meine malkunst ist leider nicht so toll >_>

[Aratoxa]

Wow ich zolle deiner "besseren" Hälfte riesen großen Respekt ! Erstens da das Projekt ne menge Zeit vereinnahmt hat und zum anderen das colorieren an sich. Ich nehm mal an dein Mann hat auch sonst viel mit zeichnen bzw colorieren zu tun? Jedenfalls hat er mehr Farbverständnis als ich xD Hatte er denn zwischendurch die Schulterstücke auch mal nicht mehr "sehen" können? ^^ Mach weiter so ich finde die Cosplays einfach klasse :)

[raininghard]

This is ALL so amazing!! Thank you so so much! I will surely try this for my next cosplay! I have been having difficulties trying to figure out how to do it but I think I get what I can try now. Thank you a ton! You and your husband are truly skilled and I hope to be as good as you both! Thank you again and happy holidays!