Painting the translucent Reaper Bones figures...

[kalamadea]

Do NOT use any enamel based painted or primers. They react with the vinyl based soft plastics and will remain sticky/tacky pretty much forever. I nearly ruined the undead dracolich figure from the D&D Ravenloft board game by priming it with Floquil primer which is quite solvent heavy. Almost a year after I painted it the fig was still tacky to the touch even with multiple coats of varnish (though the harder plastic base was fine).  Only thing that finally saved it was I found a forum talking about the issue and somebody suggested a coat of elmers glue, which worked.

Just double check that it's an acrylic based matte varnish and you should be fine.

[phreedh]

http://www.reapermini.com/forum/index.php?/topic/46529-painting-transparent-bones-oh-yes-there-are-leds/

Someone on the Reaper forum gave painting them a try. Great results and a lot of do's and don'ts.

In all honesty, judging by these pics, I think we would've been better off with regular Bones matierial for the models made in translucent plastic. It's a pity, I was really expecting something like the DDM translucents.