Hmmm.... guess I was a little premature in thinking the white oil pastel had 'worked' on the tbleague
body even as much as I'd thought it had. When I went back and gave the
body another good couple of rinses, what remained of it washed off. The areas I worked on are now just the slightest bit paler than the original skintone... so not really enough to justify using up an entire stick of oil pastel on it. :/ I guess I could try it again on one of the pale bodies, but honestly I am not sure even then it would achieve the results I'm going for. The one saving grace is that the s12d
body I was using will hopefully at least still be usable now for a different
(non-alien) project I have in mind, later on.
I had another seamless
body colouring disappointment the other day -- the Jiaou 3.0
body I ordered finally arrived, and I tried it with the headsculpt I mentioned in a different thread that needed a Kumik-compatible neck peg. It did indeed fit, so I went to work straight away on trying to colour it with the oil pastel method. It started out well and I got quite excited that it might be the break I needed. But in order to get the right colour to match the head, I needed to go over it several times with different colours. At one point, I tried to 'shade' the area around the hips and waist, and.... it left quite a noticeable scratch mark/gouge on the surface of the
body:
These pics are after washing the area several times, and then going over it again with the colour.... this time, it didn't stick. I can only presume that this means the top layer of the TPE was sloughed off during my colouring attempt. Really sucks, as the midriff area needed to be visible on this one, so I can't even hide it with clothing. :
(So now I'm wondering if the Jiaou
body is really not as compatible with the oil pastels as I hoped...