Hi everyone, I just purchased my first silicone kit today! I have never painted silicone or used air dry paints. Does anyone have any tips or advice for me? I really need any input at this point! lol Thank you 
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If you donāt Mind me asking, where did you purchase your unpainted silicone kit?
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I bought the Jesse kit from sweetsunrisenursery!
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I can see how ready you are to stop painting babies, @Sony72. 
I am super curious about silicone. So curious in fact that Iām learning digital sculpting just to be able to eventually make my own.
Keep us updated with progress reports and lots of pics!
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Join this FB group, they have lots of helpful info!!
And this is my playlist of tutorialsā¦
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Thank you so much everyone! I am super excited 
I was wondering what is ādigital sculptingā? Never heard of it. Iām old, sorry.
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Here are some good tutorials. Painting silicone is very tricky and you have to measure precisely or it wonāt cure properly. First you need to know if you silicone is platinum or tin. Each require a different kind of paint. For platinum cure for beginners the best paint is the preblended fusefx doll set used in the tutorials and you can get them lots of places. Also with silicone you need to work quickly and keep your pieces covered while they cure. Silicone is like a magnet for any and all dust or fuzzies in the air and itās a losing battle when it comes to this getting in your paint but having a good pair of tweezers on hand is a must.
This is a free one from Macphersons showing how to use the fusefx paints
The tutorials by REAL go into detail about all of the information above and what products to use and exactly how to use them 
http://www.realrebornstore.com/product-p/eb-spt.htm
http://www.realrebornstore.com/product-p/eb-sipt.htm
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Thank you so much!!! 
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Been thinking about doing this .but .my questionā¦
How bad does it smell?.my brother has used siliacone for hobbies and ive used small amounts for grouting outside.He says the 2 part stinks horribly ive use 2 part glue ā¦it smells bad Does this stuff.? .
.I tiled a kitchen wall once using tile glueā¦i couldnt catch my breath well for 3 weeks.Lung Doc said a reaction to it.Now lm leery of toxic fumes i had fans on windows all wide open too.
Platinum silicone and silicone paints have no smell. If you have any smell that would come from the thinners you would use to thin your paints.
Silicone used to make these dolls is very high quality that they use to make prosthetics not the kind you would find in the hardware store for home projects.
@lynn, there are programs for sculpting to use on the computer. You can start with a digital slab covered in mesh and manipulate the 3D image into whatever you want. Iām not young either and thereās lots to learn, but fortunately I have the assistance of someone who went to school for this and sculpts characters for video gamesā¦
Thats very cool Lynn
Do you know if ecoflex 20 silicone platinum? I know this post is a bit older.
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Ecoflex is platinum cure