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Step 5Painting the legs (optional)
Depending on the type of spider you are going for, you will want to paint the legs. For hairy spiders where the legs are as fuzzy as the body, go to the next step and start furring your spider!
If you are making the legs contrast with the body, you will want to paint the legs. But paint alone won't work. It'll just seep into the foam and make it all crusty and decidedly unpleasant. The solution? Mix your paint with liquid latex! The latex won't seep in nearly as much and also provides a decent skin-like feel to the legs when it dries.
Fill a jar mostly with the liquid latex and drop a bit of the acrylic paint in. Mix it until the latex is a uniform colour. Don't add too much paint! The paint might seem watered down, but when the latex dries it will significantly darken whatever colour you mixed in. My latex was an elephant grey when I mixed it, but as you can see in the photo in the intro, it dried black.
Using your foam paint brushes, coat the legs and tip of the fangs with the liquid latex. Once it dries, go back and do another coat or two to smooth the surface. Just be sure that the latex over where your joints are going to be isn't overly thick. The thicker it is, the harder it will be to keep the legs posed.
Note: I didn't have as much latex as I would have liked when I did my spider, so the legs aren't as smooth as they could have been. If you want to have your spider's legs less rough than what you see in the intro photo, it's just a matter of more layers.
If you are making the legs contrast with the body, you will want to paint the legs. But paint alone won't work. It'll just seep into the foam and make it all crusty and decidedly unpleasant. The solution? Mix your paint with liquid latex! The latex won't seep in nearly as much and also provides a decent skin-like feel to the legs when it dries.
Fill a jar mostly with the liquid latex and drop a bit of the acrylic paint in. Mix it until the latex is a uniform colour. Don't add too much paint! The paint might seem watered down, but when the latex dries it will significantly darken whatever colour you mixed in. My latex was an elephant grey when I mixed it, but as you can see in the photo in the intro, it dried black.
Using your foam paint brushes, coat the legs and tip of the fangs with the liquid latex. Once it dries, go back and do another coat or two to smooth the surface. Just be sure that the latex over where your joints are going to be isn't overly thick. The thicker it is, the harder it will be to keep the legs posed.
Note: I didn't have as much latex as I would have liked when I did my spider, so the legs aren't as smooth as they could have been. If you want to have your spider's legs less rough than what you see in the intro photo, it's just a matter of more layers.
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