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Originally Posted by proteus

Now thats interesting,maybe the dye could be used to darken the figure(especially the joints) then paint the rest to finish it off?? Its the joint rub thats my main concern........

Yeah. And you may not need to even paint it again if you're satisfied with the colors it produces. It'll be dark just maybe not black.

Just remember to take the figure completely apart, or as much as you can, so the dye can get to all the joints. Put all the pieces into cheese cloth or something like that, so you don't lose anything. Put your cheese cloth pouch into your boiling pan of Rit dye and you're good. Take it out and check it after maybe 30 minutes and rotate the legs so that the dye has access to both sides of the hip joint.

I used this technique for an X-Force Archangel and it worked quite well. The blue all turned black and the pink became a super dark purple-y, majenta color, which made painting in the silver easy as I had a guide.