Paint to touch up sideart?

[pointdablame]

Hey all,

I want to touch up the paint on the side art of my Xmen cab, but I'm not sure what type of paint would be best? It's an Xmen 4p cab, side art seems to be vinyl (I'm assuming) It's in overall good shape with just a few nicks/scrapes/etc and a bit of peeling on the top edge, so I really think it'd be an easy fix.

Anyone have any experience on what type of paint would work best here? I'm not talking spray paint obviousy. I can mix colors and handpaint it, but what to use... acrylic? oil? should I try markers?

Any ideas would be great, and i'll try to get a pic of it up here tomorrow, but its too late and I had too much turkey today to make the trek downstairs  

Thanks

[Tailgunner]

I'd try acrylics, being water based you can experiment without fear of damaging the existing sideart.

[pointdablame]

that's pretty much what I was thinking too.

anyone else have opinions?

[mahuti]

absolutely not oil. It takes forever to dry, and its translucency may make it difficult to get the desired results. I would also stay away from using any extra dryers, or thinners with acrylic (besides water) Acrylic drys to a plastic sheen in a few minutes. You can use a hair dryer to speed up the drying. Use a water spray bottle to keep the paint wet every 30 seconds or so, if your job will take some time.

I personally prefer the more opaque acrylics. Sometimes their are numbers on the tube stating the opaqueness.

If you have a lot of touchup on a multicolored piece, I would recommend getting several colors. The most difficult to get right and not too dark are the purples and cool blues.

Lead or Cadmium White
Black
Cadmium Red
Ultramarine Blue (cool)
Cerulean Blue (warm)
Cadmium Yellow

You might also want some form of premixed violet, green, and orange. You may want a cool yellow, and cool red as well as the colors listed above to properly mix clean colors. Mixing a cool blue with a warm red will muddy your colors. Mixing a touch of white in with the cool colors may help reduce their translucency.

That's all general info. It varies greatly from manufacturer to manufacturer.

[pointdablame]

thanks for the info, very helpful. I am going to look for a premixed purple since the xmen sideart has a purple/blue background.  Other than that purplish blue, most of the colors I need to touch up are black and white, so that makes it a bit easier.  There is a bit of red and yellow too, but nothing too drastic. I think I'll pick up some paints this weekend if I go home.