12-08-2007, 11:25 PM
Greetings all, I was fortunate enough to find a Leatherface mask on ebay. $53.00 later and it was mine. The mask however had been desecrated! The hair had been removed (you can still see the holes where it had once been) and the stitches, in my opinion, are thin and uninteresting . The mask was then repainted by brush rather uninterestingly. I don't know what type of paint was used but I think it's acrylic. I am a halfway decent painter myself so I'd like to try and salvage this amazing mask. (No, I don't own an airbrush so I'd probably have to do this by hand) I'd also like to restitch it with thicker thread and reattach the hair, strand by strand.<b>I've never painted a latex mask or attached hair in this manner.</b><b>Questions:1. What type of paint might I use to give this mask some contrast (I suspect I'll just have to paint on top of the existing paint...what's there now might serve as a pretty decent base color)2. Where would I get the type of hair that I could push in strand by strand (or at least small group by small group). Are there special tools for this? I want that realistic, strand-by-strand look, not the clumpy look.</b>I am a huge TCM and Leatherface fan and I love this mask...the sculpture is so amazing! I'd also like to give it that fleshlike sheen that the silicon MaskMurderers.com Headskinner 5's have. It would give me great joy to give this mask back some dignity and wear it proudly next Halloween...or sooner. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated! Thanks!!Stay RottenVictor "The Undertaker" IvesPhotos:<img src=\"http://www.hauntedhotsauce.com/haunted/leatherface_mask/front.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://www.hauntedhotsauce.com/haunted/leatherface_mask/left.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://www.hauntedhotsauce.com/haunted/leatherface_mask/back.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" /><img src=\"http://www.hauntedhotsauce.com/haunted/leatherface_mask/right.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" />...and I've already unstitched it:<img src=\"http://www.hauntedhotsauce.com/haunted/leatherface_mask/unstitched.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" />and here's the teeth I painted to wear w/ it:<img src=\"http://www.hauntedhotsauce.com/haunted/leatherface_mask/teeth.jpg\" border=\"0\" class=\"linked-image\" />