Does Greenstuff stick to paint?

[Bloodfinger]

Hi, I\'m planning to do a small conversion to turn a Reaper Ghoul King into an Ogre Butcher, by giving him a belt and loincloth made of greenstuff, and a few accessories (knives, body parts etc) stuck under his belt. It\'s my first attempt to do any converting.

It seems to me it would be easier to paint his body and the bits separately, then stick them together and then add the greenstuff. But my question is will the greenstuff stick to the body once it is painted? Or would I be better to do the greenstuff first and then paint the whole thing in one go (which will make painting the fiddly bits more difficult)?

To show what I mean I\'ve used my limited IT skills to draw a little picture of what I have in mind

I\'d be grateful for anyone who can help!

 

[matty1001]

My mate once added fur cloaks made from greenstuff to a painted tactical squad and they stuck well, iv never tried it but as far as i know it bonds like superglue, or you could let the green stuff harden then glue it on to the model.

 

[Thecadian]

just to be on the safe side id either stick then paint or leave a part un painted

 

[jacob]

Hello bloodfinger, to answer your question yes it does. I was at a friends house modeling last week and I brought my green stuff. My friend had finished a Greater Daemon of Tzeentch a few weeks prior. There was a big gap where the neck connects and she filled it with paint to hide it. Well it didnt look to hot so she took some green stuff and filled the whole and textured it and it stuck.

 

[airhead]

Where you have some texture to stick to (like the gap in the neck) you can get adhesion - but this is mechanical - like a jigsaw puzzle piece.

Say you are attacking a design (leave or rose) to a large smooth shield. I would definately want it to be to bare metal. If you put it on over the paint, you have no mechanical adhesion, but only the chemical adhesion (the epoxy putty\'s sticky nature - which is like mechanical adhesion on a microscopic level).

This might stick to paint, but the strength will only be as good as the paint\'s and we\'ve all rubbed paint of of areas as we\'re painting. For the belt you\'ve shown, you could get it to lay on the model without it needing good adhesion, but I would not count on long term results. Since you are only primed, why not strip it?

 

[Modderrhu]

How about just scraping the paint off the parts to which you want to attach the green stuff, down to bare metal? Perhaps drill a little hole the spot to aid mechanical adhesion if you use epoxy to do the sticking too?

 

[demonherald]

Personally I\'d do the greenstuffing first ..That way if the gs goes wrong at all you can scrape it off without buggering up your paint job..
From what I can see of your intended conversion there wouldn\'t be many more details than an average model..
Nice idea btw

 

[Bloodfinger]

Thanks for the advice guys. I think I\'ll go ahead and do the green stuff first. I\'ve had a go at repositioning the bits (using blu-tac) to make them easier to get at and I think it should work OK.

 

[Thecadian]

yueah post some wips