So, I have never done a build thread or any type of write up…. So please bear with me as I stutter through this…. I am lacking in photos of some parts of the procedure…. But I will assume you get the idea since those are the basic parts of painting any Rc body….
Get yourself a clear body… since we are painting the inside and outside of the body, we need to start inside…the outside a,ready has the protective film… don’t remove the outside protective film… until after the inside is 100% complete….
As always, wash the inside of the body with a mild soap (dish soap)… I use a sponge with a scouring pad on the one side…. Rinse fully and dry….
On the inside, I had to mask off the windows. I bought the stickers to do so on eBay…. Well they were at least an 1/8th of and inch shy on all sides…. So masking tape and a sharp razor to rescue…. I can’t stress this enough, a SHARP RAZOR is super important during any process….
First layer of paint was silver…. Nothing special… just tamiya bright silver…. I do thin THIN coats till the small can was depleted….
Here are the colors I used for the body..
After the silver was done and dried… it was time to shoot the black…. I just do black for personal reasons… no need if you don’t want. I just think it looks better…
Once the black is sprayed, and dried for a good 24 hours. I tape off the bottom edges of the body to help with overspray when I do the outside….
Peel off the outside film…. You can try and cut around the windows I guess, but I re-mask them with tape… i mask off windows and that was it… I sprayed the whole body with the metallic red first… I did 3 light coats…. Then I brushed on the proline MARS RED…. Then shot another coat of the METALLIC RED. Then another of the MARS RED… don’t ask me why besides I liked the color tones I achieved… after that, I poured a glass of wine, sparked one up and worked on an idea…. So that’s when it all came together and I had a plan… sort of. Hahaha
I chose the color for a few reasons… one, they seemed period correct for whatever sudo make this truck is…. Two, I could see them from a good distance away… hahaha. I was gonna do black and red, 1 & 2 kind of knocked that down….
This is where you have to decide where you want your rust…. Yes, I added rust to the outside, but that might flake off. It’s usually done on hard bodies…. So taking this in to account, I decided to paint some rust where I wanted to be…. I used the METALLIC COPPER first, then used the PEARL ORANGE over that…. Spotty and messy like rust might be….
Let me tell you…. Watching pint dry is not fun…. And this was only the beginning… ugh. Haha
So next, after the rusty and prime red base coat is finished and dried…. You have to mask off how you want your body panels… this takes some planning or clever masking… granted, this paint job is supposed to be weathered, you don’t want to just overspray the hell out of it….
After you get your masking done, and all the edges pressed and secured… I use the back side of my hobby knife… it a little rounded but has that good edge to get in there… (watch your overlaps… this is where paint bleed happens) now you get to start the fun creative stuff with the the first process of the rust….
I don’t have a picture, but I used the pink salt in the grinder… it was what they had at the local 7-11… I grinder about half the bottle on corse, and used the rest as whole chunks….
get yourself a bigger paint brush from the pack I will show in a minute… also get a cup of water…. You want to "paint" the water onto the body where you want the salt to stick…. I use the different size salt granulates to do different things…. Big chunks to block bigger areas of paint and add the most texture….then I use the smaller stuff to make the small rust spots and dust the body to get a texture to the paint…. You’ll see the finer stuff more on the yellow panels….
The red part of the body is the oldest part of the truck… hence more rust… the yellow are replacement parts that were done sometime down the road…. And the hood…. Well the hood was my great attempt at a lace style hood…. Hahaha didn’t do what I wanted but I still think it looks alreight… it was supposed to be like when I we were younger and we would put the fiberglass cowl hood on a chevelle or nova…. (That’s right, I’m from a Chevy family)
Here are some of my in process pics…
Sorry won’t let me do more pictures in one shot… so I will continue…
Get yourself a clear body… since we are painting the inside and outside of the body, we need to start inside…the outside a,ready has the protective film… don’t remove the outside protective film… until after the inside is 100% complete….
As always, wash the inside of the body with a mild soap (dish soap)… I use a sponge with a scouring pad on the one side…. Rinse fully and dry….
On the inside, I had to mask off the windows. I bought the stickers to do so on eBay…. Well they were at least an 1/8th of and inch shy on all sides…. So masking tape and a sharp razor to rescue…. I can’t stress this enough, a SHARP RAZOR is super important during any process….
First layer of paint was silver…. Nothing special… just tamiya bright silver…. I do thin THIN coats till the small can was depleted….
Here are the colors I used for the body..
After the silver was done and dried… it was time to shoot the black…. I just do black for personal reasons… no need if you don’t want. I just think it looks better…
Once the black is sprayed, and dried for a good 24 hours. I tape off the bottom edges of the body to help with overspray when I do the outside….
Peel off the outside film…. You can try and cut around the windows I guess, but I re-mask them with tape… i mask off windows and that was it… I sprayed the whole body with the metallic red first… I did 3 light coats…. Then I brushed on the proline MARS RED…. Then shot another coat of the METALLIC RED. Then another of the MARS RED… don’t ask me why besides I liked the color tones I achieved… after that, I poured a glass of wine, sparked one up and worked on an idea…. So that’s when it all came together and I had a plan… sort of. Hahaha
I chose the color for a few reasons… one, they seemed period correct for whatever sudo make this truck is…. Two, I could see them from a good distance away… hahaha. I was gonna do black and red, 1 & 2 kind of knocked that down….
This is where you have to decide where you want your rust…. Yes, I added rust to the outside, but that might flake off. It’s usually done on hard bodies…. So taking this in to account, I decided to paint some rust where I wanted to be…. I used the METALLIC COPPER first, then used the PEARL ORANGE over that…. Spotty and messy like rust might be….
Let me tell you…. Watching pint dry is not fun…. And this was only the beginning… ugh. Haha
So next, after the rusty and prime red base coat is finished and dried…. You have to mask off how you want your body panels… this takes some planning or clever masking… granted, this paint job is supposed to be weathered, you don’t want to just overspray the hell out of it….
After you get your masking done, and all the edges pressed and secured… I use the back side of my hobby knife… it a little rounded but has that good edge to get in there… (watch your overlaps… this is where paint bleed happens) now you get to start the fun creative stuff with the the first process of the rust….
I don’t have a picture, but I used the pink salt in the grinder… it was what they had at the local 7-11… I grinder about half the bottle on corse, and used the rest as whole chunks….
get yourself a bigger paint brush from the pack I will show in a minute… also get a cup of water…. You want to "paint" the water onto the body where you want the salt to stick…. I use the different size salt granulates to do different things…. Big chunks to block bigger areas of paint and add the most texture….then I use the smaller stuff to make the small rust spots and dust the body to get a texture to the paint…. You’ll see the finer stuff more on the yellow panels….
The red part of the body is the oldest part of the truck… hence more rust… the yellow are replacement parts that were done sometime down the road…. And the hood…. Well the hood was my great attempt at a lace style hood…. Hahaha didn’t do what I wanted but I still think it looks alreight… it was supposed to be like when I we were younger and we would put the fiberglass cowl hood on a chevelle or nova…. (That’s right, I’m from a Chevy family)
Here are some of my in process pics…
Sorry won’t let me do more pictures in one shot… so I will continue…
