View Full Version : Painting a mertailor latex tail
Seaweed
04-08-2014, 09:58 PM
I'm waiting for my mertailor tail and was wondering if I ever wanted to repaint it, how would I? Like, what paint, what way? Handpainting? Airbrush?
AniaR
04-08-2014, 10:21 PM
Why not just get it painted the way you want it?
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Seraphina Suds
04-08-2014, 10:23 PM
I think they mean if it comes flawed or if they want a style change in the future.
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Anahita
04-08-2014, 10:29 PM
See, this post is actually not making me think that.... It's reminding me of something else entirely. :P
Winged Mermaid
04-08-2014, 11:32 PM
He doesn't make latex tails anymore. Unless you're buying used, it will be silicone. You don't "paint" silicone really- you buy pigment and mix it into silicone and paint that on. There's tons of info on that around the forum, esp in the tailmaking section.
AniaR
04-08-2014, 11:44 PM
Me too Anahita...
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Seaweed
04-09-2014, 01:38 AM
Hmmm... Let me restate the question. Ok, so sorry not latex, it's the partial silicone. But Raina, he brought back a tail like the one lined with neoprene. If I'm not mistaken it's like the tail you bought. Anyway, I was thinking since many people say that the tail paint chips off easily, I might paint it sometime soon. People say pearl-ex paint. I don't know if I'm mistaken though because it was like the tail you have Raina. Anyway, I wonder if I decide to paint it again, how should I do it?
Oh Yeah I almost forgot, here's the link.... Can someone tell me if it is latex or silicone, thanks!
https://www.themertailor.com/silicone-neoprene-mermaid-tail
Seaweed
04-09-2014, 01:41 AM
Oh yeah, I was just asking but I'll probably repaint it in the future instead of now... Maybe when the paint starts chipping off.
Sephina
04-09-2014, 10:01 AM
Seaweed he uses silicone now, which means if done right it shouldn't flake off or chip at all, not like the latex ones like I have. to paint silicone you actually have to pigment silicone and airbrush it on, then it adheres to the sililcone and shouldn't really chip or flake at all. You can find more info in the forums on how to pigment and paint with silicone.
MerEmma
04-09-2014, 10:05 AM
With platinum cure...I think he uses tin cure for those half silicone tails? I don't know for for a fact, I can't recall. You'd have to ask.
ShyMer
04-09-2014, 10:20 AM
I'm kinda confused since you already made a thread asking the same question- maybe you need to give specific and detailed info on your tail. Did you purchase it used or from the site? What date for you put in your order?
Raina' s old mertailor tail (that she gave away a while ago) is a tin cure latex tail, not a silicone one.
Winged Mermaid
04-09-2014, 01:26 PM
You didn't answer the question of if you're going to buy it in the future, or if you're buying a used one. If the tail looks like the photo on that page you linked, it's probably latex. I don't know why he uses that photo for his website – he hasn't made that kind of tail since 2008. I think that photo was taken some years earlier- maybe 2006. I'm pretty sure I was one of the last to get that kind (neoprene and real latex) before he officially moved on to neoprin and ALEX. Why he still uses that photo is beyond me – his tails don't even look like that anymore, so if people expect to get that when they buy it that's not what they're going to get. He has plenty of photos of what he ACTUALLY sells, so again, no clue why he'd use a photo of one of his latex tails from years ago.
My point is is that you need to be more specific in describing your tail – painting the latex tails and painting the silicone tails are very different processes.
Winged Mermaid
04-09-2014, 01:32 PM
Also, yes, those kind of tails are tin cure silicone. The partial tails with the detachable flipper are dragonskin. I do know that the paint on the Dragon skin partial silicone tails does come off. Paint comes off of his full silicone tails too. (Just ask and I'll post photo proof.)
Pearl-ex is a popular choice for pigment, but there are others. For silicone tails you still have to mix it with silicone and then paint it on – you can hand paint it, but it can be obvious unless you use a lot of layers so the brush strokes don't show. Most people airbrush.
Seaweed
04-09-2014, 04:43 PM
Thank you guys so much! So much information I need to learn too. :) I'm buying a new one from his website by the way
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