Translucent box art paint job
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Re: Translucent box art paint job
It is entirely possible. For experimenting with translucent colors, take a 2 liter soda bottle, cut the ends off, cut it up the middle and uncurl it. You now have practice panels for free. Unless you live here in oregon in which they cost 10 cents.
As far as painting the body, painting itself takes little skill until you get into airbrushing. All it takes is patience and care when masking and a plan of which colors to lay first. Always go darkest color first then lighter and lighter colors in your progression through the paint scheme. As stated above, your translucent paint would have to be laid down last.
90% of a good finished product with a paint job is prep and masking, which can be done over and over until it's right before you ever break out a paint can. You need to thoroughly wash the body to start. Not just to make the paint adhere, but also so that your mask sticks properly and doesn't lift while painting causing bleed through. As a final tip, when spraying translucent or candy paints, I hold the body up to a light so that I can easily see that I'm laying down an even coat.
Six months ago you could practice on protech bodies for about $15 a piece, but now they're getting scarce so I would practice on soda bottles.
Box art bodies are deceptively difficult, but the difficulty lies in finding the right color paint and properly taping off the stripes correctly. Pushing the button on the top of a spray can is the easy part.
As far as painting the body, painting itself takes little skill until you get into airbrushing. All it takes is patience and care when masking and a plan of which colors to lay first. Always go darkest color first then lighter and lighter colors in your progression through the paint scheme. As stated above, your translucent paint would have to be laid down last.
90% of a good finished product with a paint job is prep and masking, which can be done over and over until it's right before you ever break out a paint can. You need to thoroughly wash the body to start. Not just to make the paint adhere, but also so that your mask sticks properly and doesn't lift while painting causing bleed through. As a final tip, when spraying translucent or candy paints, I hold the body up to a light so that I can easily see that I'm laying down an even coat.
Six months ago you could practice on protech bodies for about $15 a piece, but now they're getting scarce so I would practice on soda bottles.
Box art bodies are deceptively difficult, but the difficulty lies in finding the right color paint and properly taping off the stripes correctly. Pushing the button on the top of a spray can is the easy part.
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Re: Translucent box art paint job
Still looking to have this done. Doesn’t have to be exact boxart but rather resto mod boxart’ish’.
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Re: Translucent box art paint job
It must be a deleted post or forum. It says that for me too. Or I'm no longer special... My teachers always said I was special.R Cane wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:43 amTHEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:56 pm You may have seen this, but DemZ kept the body of his partially clear and I think it's a pretty cool look. Not quite the same of course, but worth a look.
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=39589
You must be special, Thumbs... when I click the link, it says "You are not authorized to read this forum."
Good luck Bob!
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Re: Translucent box art paint job
Bob, I don't know much about it, but is there any kind of hydrodipping technique that might work? There's a thread below on it.
https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=42727
https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=42727
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Re: Translucent box art paint job
THEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2019 6:00 amIt must be a deleted post or forum. It says that for me too. Or I'm no longer special... My teachers always said I was special.R Cane wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2018 1:43 amTHEYTOOKMYTHUMB wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:56 pm You may have seen this, but DemZ kept the body of his partially clear and I think it's a pretty cool look. Not quite the same of course, but worth a look.
http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=39589
You must be special, Thumbs... when I click the link, it says "You are not authorized to read this forum."
Good luck Bob!
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