A word on painting.

Hey, I just wanted to give a few pointers on painting real quick. First of all if your doing armor like I am and it need to be real dirty and blackened looking, then you don't really need much. I used acrylic paint from walmart. I got a few bottles of silver, brown, and black. Even though the armor is supposed to be a very dark brown, it's still armor, right? at one point it would have been silver. So I started out by doing 2 coats of silver (AT LEAST 2 coats; since your working with foam, it absorbs paint pretty good). then I put a little brown on there to make it look dirty. I mixed some black and brown together to make a really dark brown and used that for the cracks and crevices that would be hard to clean out if it were real armor. finally, I took some more silver and VERY gently put a thin THIN amount right on all the edges to make it look as if the dirt and rust were scuffed off when he fell. Anyway, I just wanted to give this little pointed on how I did the painting so far. You may have a better way but this is just how I did it. Have fun!