spray painting Bodies
 

would it turn out well if u do spray paint a bit body? lets say ur lazy (like me) and just want a color change non of that coustom crap.. would spray painting be a good idea? u could just take the windows out or just put tape over um and just spray the body.. anyone done this already?

yaa when i paint my big rc's i do taht jsut mask the windows and shiat and spray

Yea Spray paint is great thats what I did, sprayed it blue and white and added ylw striping

use really light coats or it will be thick. also goto an auto shop and get some detail caps or look on a grafitti site.

Yes, when I sprayed my microsizer body, I taped off the tail and head lights, and the windows. The only thing I did wrong was spray paint the body from the outside:eek: lol, let's just say that won't happen again. Luckily for me, it still turned out great( After a clear coat)!

i think your supposed to paint it from the outside... b/c of the thickness of the plastic.. its not lexan (those are spposed to be painted from the inside)

I paint all my cars on the outside. Then I clear coat them.

They come painted on the outside so why not paint them on the outside?

As the feedback on my Fast and the Furious skylines will show, spray paint is the way to go.

The hardest part is masking. Takes some paitence.

I dunno
 

well, I've been told to spray paint the clear bodies from the inside(obviously after i did mine, though)

that is more for the thinner bigger r/c bodies that are clearer.

Isn't there a special lexan paint that you're supposed to use?

I find certian brands stick better than others.

I just used regular old model spray paint

I used a paintbrush, cuz I can't buy spraypaint at my college store for whatever reason, and can't really use it in my dorm. Let me tell you, it came out like SH!T. I am thinking I'll probably have to sand it down to a smooth finish and clearcoat it, but again, I will be whipping out the F*CKIGN PAINTBRUSH.

I used a paintbrush for my rims, and they came out great. What was wrong with it? did you apply it too thick?

painting rims and painting the whole body are kind of 2 separate adventures :) rims can definitely be managed with a brush, but once you start hitting the larger surfaces with a brush (hood, roof, sides), the brush strokes can really become apparent....it's just tough to get a "happy medium" between thick & thin coats with a brush.

-paul
http://www.gbalight.com

For masking can you cover it with 2 layers of masking tape & cut w/ an exacto knife. I'm thinkin of that. I got a good knife hand :)

I only use one layer of masking tape and a box cutter knife.

I used just one layer of masking tape, and a razor blade

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all these choices for paint but which ones work the best? should i just go with the cheapest? or which ever ones have the color that i want?

krylon is the best for painting walls but id use model paint for plastic

taggers need to be shot.

Taggers own!!!!!!!!!!

how woud you like it if some stupid lil twat came and painted your property and made your nieghborhood look like crap? if i ever caught a tagger id punch him square in the face. then maybe spray him.

The thing is...I should have primered by body, because if I hold it up to light, its transparent in parts and really uneven. Also, brush strokes sort of disappear as the paint dries, but I can't get the damn thing to be totally opaque.

Also, I agree, taggers should be shot. Usually some high school kids just write a bunch of illegible and unattractive jibberish. It means nothing to anyone.

i wasnt talking about running up and down the street with a marker. thats sensless vandalism and not really an artform.

there are grafitti artists who make more money doing a single mural than you make in a year.

has anyone used "FASKOLOR" by parma? i just got some because i liked the color hehe... if so how did it turn out.

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sorry ive never heard of a grafitti artist makeing 50k for one mural... come to think of it i havent heard of them making 15k either...