I Picked this "A" chassis up for $50 RTR with box and manual. I collect mainly Tamiya and Kyosho vehicles so this will be my first rc10 resto. I did a complete teardown and rebuild of the entire car, high speed buffed all of the aluminum, and completely stripped and repainted the body and wing, I still cannot believe the body came out the way it did. Please let me know what you think.
Before re- paint
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Top job! The finished product looks great. As well as asking how you stripped the paint, can I also ask how you high speed buffed the aluminium without affecting the gold anodize?
RedScampi wrote:That is a beauty! how did you strip the paint? Enquiring minds want to know...
Ha, I knew that would be the first question!!! I used a citrus based cleaner I found at the dollar store in undilluted form called orange blast. Not sure if it works on all paints but it worked on this. I also stripped a kyosho outlaw body with the same stuff. You can actually see the stuff working just like latex paint stripper.
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CNA75 wrote:Top job! The finished product looks great. As well as asking how you stripped the paint, can I also ask how you high speed buffed the aluminium without affecting the gold anodize?
I did not buff the chassis, only the silver aluminum parts. I like the chrome look that it gives. Gotta love the dremel buffing bits.
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I have researched paint removal on a lot of threads and came up with a product that works pretty good. It is called Super Clean degreaser and comes in a purple bottle. Last one I bought was from Wal-Mart. Just don't leave lexan in it for too long or it could become brittle. It doesn't work on all paints but when it does work it is pretty fast. Hope this helps.
Thanks everyone for the comments!!!! Now that I hear I did well on this one I can start on my CE goldpan. Its in a little worse shape than this one unfortunately. I was thinking of adding the foglights to the roof and hood like in the box art,what do you guys think?
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finally someone has done that paintjob, looks unreal champ. :wink:
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Guess I never really posted any pictures of the finished product. All parts are Kyosho with the exception of the body and wing (Marwan); maybe one day I'll find some Kyosho replacements for those as well.
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I find my master
so difficult to make the same car
I decide just to make a world's car with a brian kinwald body
like on the box
It's my first vintage
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