THEDARKMANTA wrote:Ok so friend, I have to ask you If you've ever had an issue with any of your phicen that have been treated with oil pastels. I am a member of another forum, and all the users, even the forum owner all swear that oil pastels will damage phicen skin and resin parts.
So have you had any damage to any areas that you colored with oil pastels? Any disintegration of the silicone skin? Any melting parts? Any smells, rips, or tears where it was colored?
I find actual experience instead of hearsay is usually a more trustworthy advice source. Thanks for any info
Hi, you already have some responses from others that I agree with completely, but I'll just confirm it. No, I have never had any problems with these bodies due to the application of oil pastels. According to the member who introduced us to this technique, Ephiane (see the
painting seamless bodies topic, which may be more pertinent anyway), it is possible the oil pastel even protects the TPE surface.
The problems I have encountered are in sometimes possibly tearing some of the top layer of TPE, which is probably not enough to cause any major damage, but might leave a "scar" or discoloration by comparison with the areas around it. This is more of an issue with Jiaou bodies than TBLeague ones.
I do not know what else was at play for those who have had a problem with figures colored this way. It may be that they cleaned the body with some sort of very corrosive substance before coloring and then trapped it under. It could be very bad heat and humidity conditions where the body is stored. It could even be the type oil pastel -- although the worst I've seen was water-soluble oil pastel that simply washed right off, no damage done. I've had trouble with some of the markers I've tried, though even there it was mostly curing and not smearing or transferring.
If you clean the figure with a gentle wash with warm (no need to be hot) water and maybe soap, apply the oil pastel gently (it can be heated to be softened if needed), take some care with the make up sponge (although you need to ensconce the oil pastel particles, so you really can't be very gentle with that), rinse off the extra pastel with soap and water (reapply and repeat as needed), and then reapply protective powder at the end (just in case), you ought to be ok.