Does anyone know of a way of painting self adhesive vinyl, as in the type you use to cover shelves etc? I'm experimenting with it with the Zing cutter, but you can only get black and white, primary colours or wood effects at a reasonable price.

Sorted. After some advice I found slightly roughening the surface, and numerous dustings with Halfords Red Oxide primer did the trick. Now for the window frames for Salts.

I print to self adhesive vinyl on my laser printer, could probably do it with an ink jet as well, but you would need to varnish as ink jet printing will run if it gets wet.

As most home printers will not print heavy card, I print to vinyl or paper A4 label stock then stick that to card, much cheaper than buying Metcalfe brick or stone sheets, plus you can print a load of different brick, tile and stone from Scalescenes. Once stuck onto card you then send it through your plotter cutter. (Mine's a Zing also)

I've done window frames by printing plain colour  to vinyl(or bands of different colours) then feeding it through the plotter cutter.
 
The window frames I stick to transparency sheet, I also print out sheets of doors and stick them on to thin or medium card.

I then build the model in a similar manner to a Metcalfe kit, cutting windows from the transparency sheet carrying the vinyl frames, folding back door openings so the door is recessed a bit.

Thanks Mike. I'll keep that in mind.
:cheers