How to Fix Missing Paint on Toys

Take a sample of the toy's paint to your local paint store, and match the color to a paint chip, attending to whether the paint on the toy has a gloss or matte finish. Have the paint store mix up a pint of the paint for use as touchup paint.

Sand the painted surface of the toy using the 400-grit sandpaper to remove excess loose paint and to prepare the surface for the new paint. If the toy is plastic, you must be careful not to allow the sandpaper to fray the plastic. This happens when you press too hard while sanding and causes strings of plastic to pull off of the toy.

Spray the surface to be touched up with a light dusting of adhesion promoter spray. This step is necessary on plastic parts to ensure proper cohesion of the touchup paint to the toy. On metal toys, adhesion promoter is not necessary.

Apply the touchup paint to the toy using smooth brush strokes, and then allow the paint to dry completely.

Sand the painted surface lightly with 1000-grit sandpaper to smooth out the brush strokes if necessary. Follow this up by lightly rubbing the paint with automotive polishing compound on a clean rag to match the texture of the touchup paint to the toy's original paint.