need help with paint on superglue! :(

need help with paint on superglue!
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Custom WorkstationHello all..
I'v been highly impressed by this site and the customizers are phenomenal! awesome work guys! anyway...I figured this would be the best place to ask for advice. So, here goes-
I have a moviemasters dark knight batman whose wrist joints are stuck. I was ok with it until I came across the whole hair dryer trick and tried it out on the figure after doing it on a non precious figure which actually worked. What happened was, I heated the wrist and in turn made the thumb ,which was stuck to the fingers held back( probably manufacturing fault) causing the fingers and thumb to separate, which is fine but then what happened was that the little thin layer of plastic between the thumb and the index finger tore and got separated but did not come off. What I did was, used superglue to fix the small thing back into place. The superglue caused a small white mark( not too small) and I wasn't happy with that obviously, so I painted that small bit of superglue using reeves acrylic black paint since you don't get tamiya or testors here and I had no other option! my questions are- the paint's been fine for so long..but I'm scared it might wear off eventually..do I seal it with a matte sealer or gloss sealer or something or should I not bother about it? will the paint wear off of the superglue?
thanks!

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Posted by
Shan on Saturday, January 2, 2010
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For areas around the hands, if you're worried about paint wear I've found using a combination of Krazy-glue (the runny liquid type of super glue) in very, very small amounts applied with a paper-clip or pin to the painted/dried area works well. The final surface is glossy, but if you go over *that* area with a matte varnish (sometimes called a sealant), it looks great. I seal all my figures using either Citadel Glossy Varnish (warhammer shops usually carry this) on glossy areas (Armor, etc.), or Vallejo matte finish varnish. This stuff was so good, I bought 7 bottles of it.
In any case, for your batman's hand - I wouldn't worry about it too much unless you like putting lots of accessories in and out of the hand. For future projects though - painting a hand (or knee, or other area that recieves a lot of scuffing/action) then doing that 2-part sealing trick works great for me.
Best of luck with your projects.
Have you ever done a figure right from scratch? if yes..how do you make a mould for it? any ideas you could give me? I want to construct the batman arkham asylum game costume figure which was done by this guy under the name 2dtoys. It was simply brilliant and he said he'd done that one right from scratch....so how does one go about doing that?
oh ok....I see...could you please tell me why enamels aren't recommended?
thanks a lot for the views on that...you guys are right! it shouldn't come off if I'm not playing with it hehe