Help! Help! Help! Ineed Help

**Big Nick** · 09-08-2009,04:09 PM

I don"t know if i am jst trying to hard this year, or if i am being too much of a perfectionist, or if i am just making simple mistakes, but my corpsed buckies are dry to the touch. they have been drying in the garage for a month or more. If i rub my fingers on the dry stain it rubs off. If i rub a little harder the liquid latex rubs off. Why is this stuff coming off so easily?

Right now i am experimenting on 2 of the bucky skeletons that i have finished. I just applied some Polycrylic polyurthane to them and i am letting them dry for 2 hours and then i am going to reapply another coat. If that doesn't do the trick then what will? I am getting down to the wire here and i am starting to get a bit nervous.

What can i do to fix the problem?

**walkingcorpse** · 09-08-2009,04:26 PM

Stop rubbing him. Your Bucky, his latex and his stain were never designed to be used together. His features will become more permanent over time, but you may always be able to rub off parts of the latex and stain.

**Big Nick** · 09-08-2009,04:29 PM

Here's the thing though. I am selling some and i don't want them to be falling apart after a year of use. Isn't there anyway i can seal them so that they don't fall apart?

**walkingcorpse** · 09-08-2009,04:41 PM

What kind of latex and stain did you use?

**Big Nick** · 09-08-2009,05:01 PM

I used Slush latex by Screamline studios and i used minwax wood stain.

**Big Nick** · 09-09-2009,02:46 AM

polycrylic polyurthane was a good idea to a degree. It took care of the rubbing off problem but now if i try to bend any of my skeletons arms the stain cracks and flakes off of the latex. so now i am at a loss. What can i use that is flexible but can cover my stain? What about using a thin coat of silicone (sink and bath caulk)?

I am going insane here.

No one else has any ideas? Am i the only one experiencing this?

**Dragonomine** · 09-09-2009,03:58 AM

Hmmm. I've never had a problem at all with my corpsed bluckys. I actually used cheap bagged webbing dripped in house laytex, then after that dried a little liquid laytex for highlighted shiny parts then mahogany wood stain. Nothing's coming off that!