Whenever painting a cloth like surface that needs to flex and have some movement, I add Angelus Too Soft to the finisher layer. It makes the acrylic finish flexible (too soft) so it won’t crack if flexed or bent. You DO have to heat the layers with Too Soft product added. I use a hair blow dryer without issue. TooSoft is used by custom tennis shoe customisers which is how I learned about it.

If I can give some tips, youre supposed to do very thin coats. Wait 20 minutes inbetween coats. I recommend doing 7-10 coats (Yes really 10). Yours is still very undercooked the leather isnt thick enough and you can still see the fabric underneath. I then do 3 layers of finishers (20 min between each layer). Always apply finisher as they arent just cosmetic. They protect the pleather from cracking and deteriorating.

Fair play mate been eyeing this figure myself but been weary might have to take the leap now lol another smashing video

thanks

Very good restoration. How about the rubbery material on armored batman and jl aquaman it stick on my collection

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That looks really good. Even closer I wouldn't know the difference

Nice job, man. good tips.

I have to figures with pleather headaches. The terminator shootout version. And the urban dredd.

Does anyone know if any kinda acrylic paint works or it has to be a specific kind?

Lookin really good. Good job! My HT TFA Han Solo's brown pleather jacket has gone the way of the damned... although I can pose him with the winter jacket, the brown one is still my first choice. Gonna have to try "restore" it and your video is really helpful. Thanks!

I mean of course its not going to look as good as out of the box but man this actually looked really good. If I wasnt aware of what the original figure looked like I wouldnt know the difference, especially if Im looking at it a foot away. Great vid

My scarlet witch age of ultron and civil war are starting to pleather. I live in the UK, and the humidity right now is 91%, so i had to box up the figures and put them in storage. And because i dont have AC im worried it will only get worse

Hello do you think it necessary to past the produc before : Lether preparer and deglazer angelus ?

Hi Jedi . I am from Singapore 🇸🇬 where the weather is hot & humility is high all year long. My Catwoman flaked badly on the legs n hands. And yeah , i repaired her with with black paint n finisher. Well it works ! The boots n arm sleeves looks like pleather leather and feels with shines. I have another issue that is the body also started to flake ,and i also paint it with black paint and the end result looks pretty decent. Well... it still works for me until catwoman 2.0 comes out. Will see the review on the actual material before decide to go for it. Like what you mentioned before in your recent video, it dosent makes sense to get another figure if the material is the same. Comment date : 2023

Can I do this with minor wear, on a Sideshow sixth scale Daredevil? And if so, what shade of red would you recommend? Thank you in advance!

Nice job. There really is nothing to lose if you ask me. In the chance it looks really bad keep her for parts and buy a brand new one. Ya you might have to pay a bit more since she's long sold out. There is a third party one out soon, also. Lots of time they get those details better because they learned what didn't work originally. As far as the restore process I would recommend using a sealer on the fabric first before applying the finish paint. Also Tamiya has a rubber black color that with a gloss clear would look just like patten-leather. Maybe apply with an airbrush too. I think I would also put the items on a spare body to get them as flat and smooth as possible while applying, instead of holding them with my fingers. Just thoughts! Great job none-the-less.

Yea man I am interested in seeing you do the terminator jacket. Mine soon as I opened the box desentigrated. I started doing what you did in this vid but it didn't look good so I stopped. So I used the mms117 jacket on him. To have one made will cost about $300 plus.

See our restoration project for black widow, we opt no painting in addition fully flexible body

I'm working on something and done painting. I have something called Satin Cote. Does not say arcyrilic finisher but is it pretty much the same thing?

This has happened to my Hot Toys Black Widow Ultron Figure. her bodysuit has had the faux leather peel. I was going to just live with it but its pretty annoying considering it was nearly $200 when new. It has also happened to my custom kit bash Yorha 2B. I got some leather thigh high boots that fit perfectly with what I was putting together and she turned out really well. But as time has gone on one day I noticed that her leather boots where peeling. I mean I got the boots for like $5 from toy anxiety but still, my faux leather boots! This gives me some ideas for at least what I can do, since its already peeled on my black widow Ultron, I think I'll give this a try. Its her whole bodysuit that's peeling so its going to tiresome to take it all off and put it all back on though. The boots are easy enough to do, but the bodysuit.... I hope my BlackWindow HotToys Avengers figure never starts peeling. I do have another BlackWidow HotToys Avengers in a 2nd box that's never been opened and is sealed. I don't know why I got two, I just did at the time. I'm frightened that my Scarlet Witch Ultron 2nd version leather might start peeling. I really hope not, because she is my favorite.

I have a Leon s Kennedy from re4 hot toys his jackets messing up so I’ll give it a try.

I commend you for having the balls to do that. I would be worried about making things worse. But then, I guess if you have a figure where so much is peeling off that it just looks bad, how can you make it any worse.

I have the terminator battle damaged and the arms were peeled. all the rest is fine. Can it be done only on the arms?

Hey can u paint the terminators jacket n belt ? Will it come out the same way?

Hey man, would u happen to know if this method works on the 2013 Man of steel superman? im buying one thats cheap because of the sticker suit and im planning to repaint it, but im not sure if the sticky suit is the same case as this

To be honest she doesn't look all that bad. Good job.👍

Finally trying this on my 9th doctor leather pleather jacket, i do worry how well it will work if i start moving or posing the figure and hoping it holds up...the real test will be my karl urban dredd the nightmare of all pleather figures along with police shootout terminator.

thx a lot, my 1/4 DV is peeling, i think this should help. what exactly is the brand of the satin finisher? thx a lot

you should do an update on how this worked 2 years later. I'd like to do something similar to fix a catwoman as well. I was considering spraying the boots and arm sleeves with Flex Seal lol. then maybe painting that with some acrylic gloss finish. .

My Darth Vader RAH,and My Darth Vader Sideshow was suffer of this,is a pain,i think if i was buy the HT 1/4 Vader and happen this...

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