Dying a truetype

[magmax]

Hello I was wondering if anyone has dyed a truetype body before? I was going to make a custom batman using a ttm20 body as I don't like the lack of movement on the dx09. So I bought some rit dye watched a few YouTube videos on how to, but the body refuses to take the dye. I put it in simmering water for about an hour and a half and it just turned a slight darker pink colour? The knee joints, wrist, pegs and the ball joints in the inner thighs went jets black and just the colour I wanted but I was not so luck with rest of it. The only thing I didn't do was add acetone into the water some people say it does nothing as it boils at a lower boiling point than the water and just evaporators. Any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Jameson Rook]

Don't mind me if I use your thread title if I write a romantic thriller.

To answer you question, I'm not sure if I would dye is as opposed to just painting it black, wouldn't that be much easier?

 

[magmax]

Of course you can use my thread title for your book… just remember me when it comes to paying out royalties!

Painting it was originally my first thought but then I stumbled across a load of YouTube vids with guys dying their remote control car parts and I thought that's got to work right? Nope… must be a different kind of plastic. The only thing putting me off painting the body would be the paint coming off and cracking around the joints. Would using a black permanent ink pen around the joints stay on and I could paint the rest? Might look a bit of a dogs dinner close up but on the shelf from about a mile away and the lights off... It could work