These turned out amazing! I never thought to dye them. As a kid I would’ve _loved_ these, because Alien toys were hard to find and they were usually expensive and for adults. These are perfect for kids, and great for adults because the sculpts are pretty accurate, and with a little creativity, like you did, can look very film close! Very cool.
I’d guess it’s because Lanard is making toys for kids to play with and sees different colors as more appealing to kids visually. That is usually the case with real toys vs collectibles.
Yeah, agree, it MUST be a rights issue. Even the 1st wave of Alien figures they did were all wonky colors. Yeah, kids like vibrant colors, but you know if they could, they would've made some black ones.
well he did say that he ended up painting it at the end since the dye won't stick to the Queen figure. So if you are to do this, spray paint all the way to save time
Wow I'm actually shocked no one has done this to the Queen yet. Such a simple custom that makes it look 1000x times better. Thanks for the step by step video bro. Great work.
This thing is sick! Wish I found this video when it came out, I recently started collecting neca figures but I'm not a big fan of their alien figures and I really wanna try this.
I finished my custom this week, thanks for the tutorial, first time I tried I broke my queen because of the temperature. I gave mine a bluish wash to it, and gave some details on the side of the mouth and chromed out the nails and teeth.
See, I'm the kind of person who would want to turn a black queen into a purple one lol. In fact... I think I'll try that with the white Alien you have there. I've bought multiples of all those $10 figures. They're just ASKING to be repainted. They're canvases awaiting their artist.
This is why I would just spray paint it and not waste my time with the dyes which are known to seep out of soft petroleum based plastics and bleed. Painting is MUCH easier.
I dyed my red one with the same Rit graphite dye. For some reason it did not dye very well. I mixed the dye good in the water and let it sit in the dye for over an hour. The water in the bucket actually ended up turning a dark red. Parts of it dyed (the same parts that dyed on yours, but they didnt completely dye). The white drone that I threw in there ended up a dark red. Not what I was looking for, but still cool looking. I have black spray paint and will probably just end up spray painting the queen.
Um, I just used a dark blue metallic spray paint and I found the red queen... spray paint if used correctly takes a day or more to set... not six hours. She is air drying outside. I cannot wait to start adding washes of browns and blacks to bring out the detail. And paint the finger and toes... It's more of a week long project, not a two day one.
It's handled pretty well. But to be fair. It really just sits up on a shelf. I touch very rarely. But still it hasn't really faded or and revert back to it's old color.
@@AHDToys That's good to hear. I recently bought the 3 7" Predators from Lanard Toys at Wal-Mart and used your video as reference to blackwash them. They turned out great!
Being honest here, in my many years of customizing, including painting and dying, dying isn't worth the effort. It would be for a kid's toy, shifting that should withstand a lot of heavy play, but that's not what collectors do. Posing for photographs is not heavy play, and even that is more rigorous that posing in a shelf or case display. Paints give you much faster results and FAR better control of shade and color variation. If you'd hit that Queen with say your basic Rustoleum black primer and a silver dry brush, you'd have cut out the entire dye time and had as good a result. But if you upgraded even a little, like an Army Painter (shop directly from their store, if you go to Amazon you'll double your cost) matte primer, it goes on smoother and thinner which decreases your dry time considerably, and keeping the layers thin retains more surface detail. Faster, easier, just as durable for collector purposes. Save dying for sand box toys or 3d printed parts.
but isn't the dying just good for the joints? the dye seemed to get the joints well, and you can move the joints without worrying that it will chip or peel off. with paint the only option is to not move the joints, or to take them apart and sand each joint to get rid of paint rub. seems dying would be a good option for pinless joints that can't be easily taken apart and put back together
@@the_red_bones here's the problem: you'd be right, if it worked. Rit dye, even the version formulated for synthetic fibers, doesn't affect action figures equally. Actin figures are made of the types of plastic, PVC, ABS, and POM. PVC is the softer type plastic you see on gummy weapons, arms and legs, that kind of thing. ABS is a tougher type plastic that you see in torsos, crotch pieces, and the accessories you get in better action figures that aren't gummy. POM is the material you get in the joints of higher end figures, discs and hinges, that kind of piece. You see POM in a lot of wrists lately when you're getting interchangeable hands. Dye penetrates PVC wonderfully, easily, and quickly. It barely penetrates ABS, so like, if you're dying something black, it'll need a long soak, but anything lighter than black up just darken the color of the base plastic. POM isn't penetrated at all, you can leave that part in a dye bath for a week and when you pull it out, it's little more than a surface stain. Literally, soaking it in coffee leaves the same easily wiped away stain. So yeah, the due works great, in shitty action figure joints, but the more you'd want it to be perfect on a really nice custom, the less it will work at all. Also, dye doesn't do a particularly good job penetrating apoxie sculpt either (I can't testify to green stuff or ProCreate) so if you've done any sculptwork, you'll need to just out the paints anyway. You're better off just disassembling the joints, painting it, sealing it, and reassembling it.
@@the_red_bones it is, on crappy figures. Marvel legends, for example, the discs are still soft PVC, so only the torsos and hip pieces resist dying. But for nicer figures, your import stuff, Mythic Legions, some McFarlane pieces, the parts you'd really want to take dye, don't. That Titan figure you might have seen from Maven Collectibles, the one supposedly designed to be customized? Made by people who don't know how action figures work, and they used POM discs that are the exact size of the limb they're set in, then made all the PVC connections loose so you can customize it. That's a bad idea, a worse idea, and a dumb idea, right in a row, and makes the base body more work than it's worth.
I tried spray painting some parts on a Motu Origins Skeletor, but it didn't work out very well. The softer plastic like the chest harness and the feet/shins etc. wouldn't dry, even after weeks, and that was with a decent flat paint like Rustoleum. I'm going to attempt dying instead at some point.
I have a question, and maybe you had said it and I missed it but can the dyed water be stored again and reused? I know I could Google it but I like positive interaction , thanks and awesome work
Dye is great for joints. For black, I'd use Duplicolor automotive spray paint for Plastic and Vinyl. It'd ten bucks for a big can at most auto parts stores. Works great as a primer cost for painting on too.
Spray paint clear coat over the figures to get that wet look the Aliens had in the films. They used KY lube in the movies, but clear coat over small portions of super glue give that look.
Links to everything I used is in the Description box above.
Except the sealer you used. ; D
These turned out amazing! I never thought to dye them. As a kid I would’ve _loved_ these, because Alien toys were hard to find and they were usually expensive and for adults. These are perfect for kids, and great for adults because the sculpts are pretty accurate, and with a little creativity, like you did, can look very film close! Very cool.
Thank you! 🙏 And I would have loved it if these were the figured made when I was a kid.
Looks great man! I wish Lanard Toys would just make some Black #Xenomoprh figures so we didn't have to do this.
There is speculation they can't because #NECA has some rights issues with that.
@@AHDToys I think thats why they're making the other factions
I’d guess it’s because Lanard is making toys for kids to play with and sees different colors as more appealing to kids visually. That is usually the case with real toys vs collectibles.
Yeah, agree, it MUST be a rights issue. Even the 1st wave of Alien figures they did were all wonky colors. Yeah, kids like vibrant colors, but you know if they could, they would've made some black ones.
I didn't even know this was a thing. I'm going to try this asap.
Good luck on your #BugHunt
Just tried it with red, to go with the Aliens Genocide comic story added some paint work for details. Worked out pretty well.
I honestly never thought about Dying figures. Seems like such a better way of doing it rather then painting. Thanks for the video.
No problem!
well he did say that he ended up painting it at the end since the dye won't stick to the Queen figure. So if you are to do this, spray paint all the way to save time
Wow I'm actually shocked no one has done this to the Queen yet. Such a simple custom that makes it look 1000x times better. Thanks for the step by step video bro. Great work.
Glad you like it!
This thing is sick! Wish I found this video when it came out, I recently started collecting neca figures but I'm not a big fan of their alien figures and I really wanna try this.
This came out amazing man! I would never think this was a $5 toy unless someone told me.
Alien queen is 20
The red one is. The purple one is on clearance for $5.15
@@GodWeenSatan He literately says at the beginning of his video he got it for $5 LOL
That's Insane! So much better then the purple!
Right!
I got this figure on sale for $10. Still a great deal. And now I'm going to go get some dye and try this. Thanks!
Have fun!
That Dry brushing silver really makes the figure! Really great work man.
Thanks a bunch!
I bought the queen 2 years ago and I didn’t attempt this yet. Cool video I’m trying this
The dome on the drones looks awesome!
I finished my custom this week, thanks for the tutorial, first time I tried I broke my queen because of the temperature.
I gave mine a bluish wash to it, and gave some details on the side of the mouth and chromed out the nails and teeth.
See, I'm the kind of person who would want to turn a black queen into a purple one lol. In fact... I think I'll try that with the white Alien you have there. I've bought multiples of all those $10 figures. They're just ASKING to be repainted. They're canvases awaiting their artist.
The actual Queen animatronic did have a blue/purple sheen when under normal lighting. The movie just makes it very dark blue to matte black.
That's crazy how much that changed this figure up! Great work bro.
I know!!
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL. This takes some of the fear out of trying this.
Thank you for actually showing the process. I was tired of watching videos where people just skipped right to the figure being done.
yeah i was getting tired of those videos too. I don't know why people won't show the processes.
This is why I would just spray paint it and not waste my time with the dyes which are known to seep out of soft petroleum based plastics and bleed. Painting is MUCH easier.
What spray paint would you recommend?
I dyed my red one with the same Rit graphite dye. For some reason it did not dye very well. I mixed the dye good in the water and let it sit in the dye for over an hour. The water in the bucket actually ended up turning a dark red. Parts of it dyed (the same parts that dyed on yours, but they didnt completely dye).
The white drone that I threw in there ended up a dark red. Not what I was looking for, but still cool looking. I have black spray paint and will probably just end up spray painting the queen.
Um, I just used a dark blue metallic spray paint and I found the red queen... spray paint if used correctly takes a day or more to set... not six hours. She is air drying outside. I cannot wait to start adding washes of browns and blacks to bring out the detail. And paint the finger and toes... It's more of a week long project, not a two day one.
Great DIY Anthony! Looks 1000x better!
WOW! That's insane! Looks amazing. Great DIY Bro.
Thanks man!
Looks really good Anthony. Great work.
Thanks 👍
Great video bro! I need to try this myself as soon I can find this figure for $5 too.
Awesome work and great tips man!
Thank you! 🙏
@@AHDToys You're welcome man!
Bro! That looks amazingly!
Thanks!
Whoever disliked this video is just made they overpaid for #NECA crap. LOL!
That's exactly why you try to get retail and not pay the scalpers
Neca crap? Sounds like you're mad you can't get your hands on the necas 🤫
Just did it! Came out so awesome! Thanks
Great to hear!
I love it so much! Great work Anthony!
Thanks so much!!
Man, that's pretty damn impressive! Great work!
Thanks
This looks so amazing now!
I'm listening to Rolling Stones Paint it Black when I do this.
Very well detailed video. Great job bro.
Much appreciated!
Did a nice job on the player figures I have two of them I am new to your channel just I am a new subscriber
love that brand afordable cool toys perfect to custom dirty cheap :=) cant wait it reach my country to get some
This looks really good man. Great work.
Glad you like it!
This paint job came out really good bro. Great job.
Thank you so much 😀
It came out amazing man! I would definitely try this if I could fine one at $5 too.
Go for it!
Great #DIY #HowTo video Anthony!
How well does the dye hold up? I noticed this video is almost a year old and was curious if it started to fade or come off from being handled.
It's handled pretty well. But to be fair. It really just sits up on a shelf. I touch very rarely. But still it hasn't really faded or and revert back to it's old color.
@@AHDToys That's good to hear. I recently bought the 3 7" Predators from Lanard Toys at Wal-Mart and used your video as reference to blackwash them. They turned out great!
Came out looking great.
Thanks!
Great video Anthony!
Great video anthony!
Thanks!
Great diy how to video Anthony
I just got two of them today I’m gonna try this instead of painting……. I also got the copper colored alien too I hope it goes well with that one too
Being honest here, in my many years of customizing, including painting and dying, dying isn't worth the effort. It would be for a kid's toy, shifting that should withstand a lot of heavy play, but that's not what collectors do. Posing for photographs is not heavy play, and even that is more rigorous that posing in a shelf or case display. Paints give you much faster results and FAR better control of shade and color variation. If you'd hit that Queen with say your basic Rustoleum black primer and a silver dry brush, you'd have cut out the entire dye time and had as good a result. But if you upgraded even a little, like an Army Painter (shop directly from their store, if you go to Amazon you'll double your cost) matte primer, it goes on smoother and thinner which decreases your dry time considerably, and keeping the layers thin retains more surface detail. Faster, easier, just as durable for collector purposes. Save dying for sand box toys or 3d printed parts.
but isn't the dying just good for the joints? the dye seemed to get the joints well, and you can move the joints without worrying that it will chip or peel off. with paint the only option is to not move the joints, or to take them apart and sand each joint to get rid of paint rub. seems dying would be a good option for pinless joints that can't be easily taken apart and put back together
@@the_red_bones here's the problem: you'd be right, if it worked.
Rit dye, even the version formulated for synthetic fibers, doesn't affect action figures equally. Actin figures are made of the types of plastic, PVC, ABS, and POM. PVC is the softer type plastic you see on gummy weapons, arms and legs, that kind of thing. ABS is a tougher type plastic that you see in torsos, crotch pieces, and the accessories you get in better action figures that aren't gummy. POM is the material you get in the joints of higher end figures, discs and hinges, that kind of piece. You see POM in a lot of wrists lately when you're getting interchangeable hands. Dye penetrates PVC wonderfully, easily, and quickly. It barely penetrates ABS, so like, if you're dying something black, it'll need a long soak, but anything lighter than black up just darken the color of the base plastic. POM isn't penetrated at all, you can leave that part in a dye bath for a week and when you pull it out, it's little more than a surface stain. Literally, soaking it in coffee leaves the same easily wiped away stain.
So yeah, the due works great, in shitty action figure joints, but the more you'd want it to be perfect on a really nice custom, the less it will work at all.
Also, dye doesn't do a particularly good job penetrating apoxie sculpt either (I can't testify to green stuff or ProCreate) so if you've done any sculptwork, you'll need to just out the paints anyway. You're better off just disassembling the joints, painting it, sealing it, and reassembling it.
@@kiltedcripple yep,that makes sense. was hoping this was a work through for pinless and other hard to disassemble joints
@@the_red_bones it is, on crappy figures. Marvel legends, for example, the discs are still soft PVC, so only the torsos and hip pieces resist dying. But for nicer figures, your import stuff, Mythic Legions, some McFarlane pieces, the parts you'd really want to take dye, don't. That Titan figure you might have seen from Maven Collectibles, the one supposedly designed to be customized? Made by people who don't know how action figures work, and they used POM discs that are the exact size of the limb they're set in, then made all the PVC connections loose so you can customize it. That's a bad idea, a worse idea, and a dumb idea, right in a row, and makes the base body more work than it's worth.
Great DIY video Anthony. Can you do a video on your custom black washed Lanard Toys Predator figures?
Thanks! And yes I can make a video on those.
I tried spray painting some parts on a Motu Origins Skeletor, but it didn't work out very well. The softer plastic like the chest harness and the feet/shins etc. wouldn't dry, even after weeks, and that was with a decent flat paint like Rustoleum. I'm going to attempt dying instead at some point.
Looks great man!
Thanks!
Quality Content what a great channel
Thanks!
Thanks!
I'm gonna (someday) paint mine up like Lisa Frank. I hope i can get the colors vibrant.
I like the purple one better.
I don't mind the purple. But black looks better to me.
I love how this came out!
Thanks
Ok I’m sooo doing this!!! Cool!
Have you tried masters of the universe origins figures? Looking to create a faker he man and maybe green teela
No I haven't tried it with those yet. This of my first time trying this on something other then a Marvel Legends figure.
You should do that with the runner and the warrior
WOW! Amazing work bro.
Thanks a lot!
I grabbed one of these, now I wanna get another
It looks awesome!!😃🎈
This came out so great.
That’s super awesome
I have a question, and maybe you had said it and I missed it but can the dyed water be stored again and reused? I know I could Google it but I like positive interaction , thanks and awesome work
I love it! 100x better.
Agreed!
I did some with the apc it looks great and works well with the aliens marines that were sold in plastic bags a couple years ago
Great #HowTo video bro.
Glad you liked it!
Really good video bro.
Glad you liked it
Looks really good bro
Great job. 👌
Thanks! 🙏
Can you color spray it looks amazing man
Do a blue and black version like the movie please
Looks so good bro! I'm surprised no one has done this to this figure yet.
You and me both!
Really good #DIY video bro.
Thanks 👍
I know I'm late but would you recommend doing this to the smaller aliens because im from England and the large aliens dont seem to be coming out here
Yes. I was going to do it to them in this video. But couldn't find my 3 3/4" Aliens to throw them in the bucket too.
Thank you so much
2:00
"Don't boil the water."
*cuts to boiling water
How long does it take to boil the water I had totes downstairs can it be any kind of color dye or just black
I might use permanent spray if thats a thing or if thats possible
It's the original Kenner version
How is the dye holding up? Does it leech from plastic?
Been wanting that Queen but don't understand why they went with that color
Yeah I don't understand why then went with that color either.
3:44 delicious Xeno stew
I wanna try this. Hopefully my hands don't turn black too LOL!
Wear gloves!
I like the purple for the queen I wouldn't mind dye the smaller soldier aliens black I will do thanks for the video
I wish that they could make it original black and silver and Platinum
Would it work if I sprayed the entire figure with flat black spray paint or would you recommend dying it.
Just panting the whole figure should work out too.
Sorry I keep asking questions but how about warrior aliens instead of blue
I did the drone and it looks amazing. Im going to try the blue Warrior and Dog alien tonight.
I did the blue warrior and the dog alien tonight. They turned out great. I have pics on my Instagram @jiujitsujoe73.
The DC Universe is Better!!!
????
I think he's just a troll account.
At making live action movies
Then go away lol
Using a black liquid to turn objects into accurate xenomorphs. Where have I seen that before🤔
I need to do this to mine now #ASAP!
Yes you do!
Dye is great for joints.
For black, I'd use Duplicolor automotive spray paint for Plastic and Vinyl.
It'd ten bucks for a big can at most auto parts stores.
Works great as a primer cost for painting on too.
does it melt the plastic ?
Beautiful amazing artistic
I've seen someone do this, but with blue dry brushing to match up with the NECA warriors.
For dying, add a 1/4 cup of vinegar to the boiling water/dye to help penetration.
This is awesome I have that queen I was curious why not spray paint it black
I have a purple queen xenomorph figure
The alien queen from aliens had a bluish tint so instead of silver dry brush i think it would look abit better with a dark metallic blue
Spray paint clear coat over the figures to get that wet look the Aliens had in the films. They used KY lube in the movies, but clear coat over small portions of super glue give that look.
Have you seen the Red Alien Queen that makes sounds?
I have seen it. And I also Have one :)
I have one too!
Don't dye the red one though because it will ruin the sound and the lights.
10:50 you are Bob ross
Edit:I fell asleep
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