Thread: Corpsing Question

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So, i'm no stranger to corpsing. I've done quite a few buckies over the past couple of years but every year i run into the same problem. My skeletons get dinged up or i realize after i'm finished that i missed a spot when painting my corpse and now there's a bright whit bone spot showing. So I had a crazy idea but don't know if it will work. I want to stain my bucky lightly. Once the stain is dry, i'll start corpsing like i normally do. My question/concern is this. Will the liquid latex stick to the skeleton if the plastic is coated in stain?

Also are there any ways to hide/replace/disguise some of the hardware on a bucky?

I totally have no right to answer these questions since I have not made a bucky corpse...but I'm going to anyway. I would think if you use a LATEX stain, not oil based, then liquid latex will work on it fine. And I'm not sure what hardware you want to hide...screws? pins? I think I would put wood putty or silicon over screws and wrap some stained cheese cloth around pins. Please don't flame me for my zero experience

You might want to coat it first with some off white paint. Rustoleum (I think that's the company) has spray paint specially made for plastics. You should be able to paint/stain over the primer coat.

thank you both for the advice.

It will stick, but make sure the stain is fully dry before applying. I use Mold Maker Latex and it never really sticks to anything but itself. But on a big surface area, it will adhere to the point where it will not move. A cool effect is to rub small holes in the latex to expose lower layers or stained bone in your case.

VinceB,

Thanks for the input. As for the effect you mentioned i planned on trying to incorporate that style this year onto my corpses. I have seen a few people do that with great results.

here's my input for this.
Liquid latex is not formulated with the extra adhesive properties that would cause it to stick to non porous surfaces. ie the difference between liquid latex and carpet latex.

The stain doesn't sink in to the bucky surface as well as wood so a heavy coat of stain will chip off exposing the bone beneath but I think a light coat would work well for what you were thinking of doing.

With the liquid latex not adhering permanently to either the bucky or the lightly stained bucky I'd say you have a good plan. Let us know if you try it and how it goes.

would the ol' plastic bag + heat gun technique be of use in this situation?

i stain the ones that i do. i first kind of rough them up with a little sand paper. nothing super intensive just enough to remove the sheen of the coating of plastic. then i use normal wood stain, then latex. im a huge fan of the pantyhose latex thing though so i dont know how it will work just on the bone alone. it does stick but i concentrate on the pantyhose part when i paint it after.

Originally Posted by LadyAlthea

i stain the ones that i do. i first kind of rough them up with a little sand paper. nothing super intensive just enough to remove the sheen of the coating of plastic. then i use normal wood stain, then latex. im a huge fan of the pantyhose latex thing though so i dont know how it will work just on the bone alone. it does stick but i concentrate on the pantyhose part when i paint it after.

thats the only way i corpse my skeletons.