07-23-2019, 09:54 PM
I've been messing around with premodern paints on leather. So far it seems to me that oil paint can work on rawhide, but on veg-tan the oil gets sucked up by the leather before it has a chance to cure, leaving the pigment to crumble off the surface. It would require a flexible, non-absorbent primer if the armor is also going to flex.
Dan D'Silva
Far beyond the rising sun
I ride the winds of fate
Prepared to go where my heart belongs,
Back to the past again.
-- Gamma Ray
Well, I'm tough, rough, ready and I'm able
To pick myself up from under this table...
-- Thin Lizzy
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Far beyond the rising sun
I ride the winds of fate
Prepared to go where my heart belongs,
Back to the past again.
-- Gamma Ray
Well, I'm tough, rough, ready and I'm able
To pick myself up from under this table...
-- Thin Lizzy
Join the Horde! - http://xerxesmillion.blogspot.com/