@Damraska maybe this might be helpful…
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Why is the fig in that vid wearing a coat of bananas? 
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Don’t you find it… appealing?
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I thought he was just monkeying around…
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Thank you but that is all known to me. My results never look like the professionals.
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Far be it for me to object to He Who Slays Barns, but I’ve found pastel dust can even adhere even to glossy surfaces…but who’s painting glossy surfaces on AFV’s anyway?
As for the banana suit, it’s been done before - check out Josephine Baker’s skirt…
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Take three sections of plastic. Paint one matte, one gloss and the third semi gloss. Use whatever powdered pigments you want and apply them to each. See which surface it sticks to the best and which the worst.
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Model building is an art and involves many skills. Each facet takes practice and experimentation. That includes learning from the mistakes we all make.
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Yes. That is exactly what I have written on numerous occasions. The hobby has a very high skill ceiling and progress does not come easily or quickly. It takes a lot of effort and inherent talent to succeed.
Right now, I am very deep in the experimentation part of learning. This stage can be very frustrating because one bad move can kill a model. I suspect some people mistake my frequent admissions of failure and disappointment as attacks on the hobby. That is not true. I really want to succeed, but I am honest with myself about failures and then look for alternative paths to success, which often involves asking for advice in these forums. Over the last 6 months, I have received some extremely helpful guidance and this has contributed to my rapid advancement in skill. However, I am aiming for the bleachers.
Products like these Lifecolor liquid pigments will not result in instant awesome, but they do offer an opportunity to achieve better results. I now suspect my filter/wash problems mostly result from incorrect mixing ratios, some talent issues (in particular, my sense of color may be deficient), and perhaps a smidgen of impatience. Over the weekend, I watched many more videos on filters and washes while sculpting terrain miniatures. I am doing the right sorts of things but need to keep experimenting.
My worry with the Lifecolor liquid pigments is that the solvent will attack Vallejo clear coats and paints. That would render them useless for my needs. It may make more sense to expand my palette of oil paints, mix them much thinner, and go more slowly.
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There have been several reviews of Life Color and liquid pigments on Armorama and elsewhere on KitMaker. Here’s one of the sets in this series from back in 2016 or so:
I’ve used and reviewed several sets of Life color and generally like them. The consistency of the paints is sometimes different even in the same set. Some are perfectly mixed and wonderful to shoot through an airbrush, and then in the same set will be one that’ll be like the old Polly S latex paint.
The pigment sets are just very thin solutions of paint, like a thick wash, and the removable means that you can do so with the LifeColor thinner. Have also managed to remove it with regular water.
I’ve had good performance from them although like so many people have said, a little bit of trial and error and you can make your own washes/filters.
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Now that’s a fine use of bananas!
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