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Offline Sumatran Rat Monkey

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Blood eating paint?
« on: May 07, 2013, 08:22:08 AM »
Okay, I just mentioned this elsewhere, and now it's actually got me wondering (blame Neotacha):

Has anyone ever gotten blood on a painted, but unvarnished/sealed, figure, and had it cause the paint to come off/loose?

Had an, ahem, "incident" a couple weeks ago and bled all over a figure (well, over roughly half of it.  Among other things.), and a couple hours later, when I got home from getting it sprayed with medigel by los medicos (really!  It was called "DermaBond."  Neat stuff!), I saw I'd bled all over a silver-basecoated figure, took it to the sink to rinse it off- and watched the blood, paint, and primer all slough right off under the running water, but only where the blood had been.

Was a first for me, in 32 years of goofing off with miniature (Hey, I started young, damn it!  I'm youthful still, I tell you!).

Anyone else ever had anything like that happen?  Or was one of my exes right, and I really am toxic?

</rimshot>

Oh, technical info: figure was basecoated with silver artist's ink, over Reaper Brush-On Primer (white), if that has anything to do with it.

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Offline emosbur

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2013, 09:16:01 AM »
There are a lot of enzimes in blood. May be that some enzimes reacted with paint oil. Or the water in blood did the job.

Emilio.

Offline HerbyF

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2013, 09:22:21 AM »
Are you human? I have bled on figures before. Never had my blood eat through the paint though. It was a bitch trying to paint over the blood though. Blood likes to seep through when painted over.
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Offline Sumatran Rat Monkey

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2013, 09:56:59 AM »
Are you human?

That depends entirely on who you ask, 'twould seem, hahaha.

It did strike me as odd, though- I've never had that happen before, either.  ...not that I make a habit of bleeding all over figures, mind you, but it's happened once or twice.

I'm wondering if it's just due to it being ink and/or a brush-on primer, mostly.

...mostly.

- Monk

Offline Bugsda

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2013, 12:47:39 PM »
I'd cut down on acidic foods for a couple of weeks if I were you.  lol
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Offline FramFramson

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2013, 04:50:47 PM »
Does the photo on your driver's license look like it was painted by HR Geiger, Sumatran Rat Monkey?  ;D


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Offline Diceplague

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2013, 05:03:21 PM »
That is the wicked stripping paint technique so far...
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Offline chantyam

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2013, 05:10:56 PM »
Going to stick to using neat Dettol to strip the next batch of figs.......but must of bled on some figs over the years but never that reaction (nearly passed out drilling into the palm of my left hand though)
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Offline Sumatran Rat Monkey

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2013, 05:12:54 PM »
Does the photo on your driver's license look like it was painted by HR Geiger, Sumatran Rat Monkey?  ;D

Haha, no, but I have been told I looked like the bastard lovechild of Rasputin the Mad and Alien Jourgensen/Rob Zombie before, if that counts!

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Offline Dr Mathias

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2013, 07:46:26 PM »
Hmm. I've got some figures that I've tried to strip the paint off and there's still a lot of residue... I've used everything... Simple Green, multiple types of hardcore paint stripper, acetone...

Blood, you say?
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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2013, 08:10:03 PM »
Which dark god did you offer your blood sacrifice to? ;D

Offline Hammers

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2013, 08:40:36 PM »
Are you human? I have bled on figures before. Never had my blood eat through the paint though. I was a bitch trying to paint over the blood though. Blood likes to seep through when painted over.

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Offline AndrewBeasley

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2013, 10:03:23 PM »
Hmmm - lets think about this.

£1000 for a kidnap
£10 food per week
£5 for 'medical' equipment

2L of blood per week - bottle off at 75% dilution and sell as paint stripper for £15 a pop...

Should break even in 4 months or so


Darn - that I say that out loud?

No never seen blood strip paint!

Offline Sumatran Rat Monkey

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2013, 03:54:15 AM »
Which dark god did you offer your blood sacrifice to? ;D

Hey now, there's nothing "dark" about my patron, Necoc Yaotl!

Not... really...

Offline FramFramson

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Re: Blood eating paint?
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2013, 04:28:13 AM »
Seems we've bred a whole new variety of vampire here.

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