Just a quicky re Tamiya Spray Paint -Plastic/Polycarbonate

[mattJT]

Hi all

Just a quick question.....got a lexan shell to spray up for my SCT this week, however just got home from work to find that the spray paint that has come is the Tamiya for Plastic one, I thought was buying the for polycarbonate one.

Will it be ok to use the for Plastic Spray Paint on a lexan shell?


Cheers
matt

[teamorsum96]

sorry to say it fella but no.... it will just flake off in time.

[mattJT]

sorry to say it fella but no.... it will just flake off in time.


Cheers for reply mate

:( In theory tho, I cover the inside of all my shells in gaffer tape......so if I did this and literally covered the whole shell then that should be ok? as the paint can't flake anywhere but onto the gaffer?

[teamorsum96]

it would work in theory but when it starts flakinf it would look cracked, personaly i would get down to model shop for the right paint, after all you dont want to spend the time painting it to then it start to look cracked.

and no probs fella.:)

[mattJT]

but when it starts flakinf it would look cracked


True true :cry:

Dagnammit, just being an inpatient two year old and as doing an all one colour base colour kinda really needs to be right.

Oh well off to LHS tomorrow (and moan at ebay seller for having wrong picture in their advert ;) knew I should have just gone to my LHS for paint in the 1st place)

[mattJT]

Actually one more question while I'm here....

I'm going to spray the shell Pearl White (then put a ton of stickers on) would I need to respray/do an overcoat of black? or would just white on it's own be ok?

Thanks again
matt

[teamorsum96]

lol you should send it back,try get your dollar back because 5er for can paint is alot for what it is.
i just had my first pro painted shell done it was £25 and was done within afew days, well worth the price, plus saves us messing about masking it up and spending the money on 3 or 4 cans of paint and not using the full cans.

http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65418&page=2

and love the your youtube vids :thumbsup:

[teamorsum96]

Actually one more question while I'm here....

I'm going to spray the shell Pearl White (then put a ton of stickers on) would I need to respray/do an overcoat of black? or would just white on it's own be ok?

Thanks again
matt

it depends, white would be better but you could use silver or gold if you wanted a tint of yellow, but me personal would say silver.
plus silver is the least transparent out of all the colours.

[mattJT]

lol you should send it back,
and love the your youtube vids :thumbsup:


Cheers mate, hopefully when I get the trucks out of the utility room again will be able to take some more vids - have a better car cam now too, so the next ones should be much better quality :D

And yeah, messaged the ebay (shop)seller already to say that they've shown the wrong pic in the ad, next one a bit later will be that I'm sending it back at their cost ;)

Gonna pop down my LHS now as their just down the road from me (TJD models) and would have been nice to get a pro painted shell, alas thought a can of spray paint and stickers worked out to be a smidge cheaper :blush:

[mattJT]

it depends, white would be better but you could use silver or gold if you wanted a tint of yellow, but me personal would say silver.
plus silver is the least transparent out of all the colours.

Cool, thanks again :thumbsup:

[teamorsum96]

no prob fella. post picture up so we can see it :)

[U1timate PigDog]

If I remember correctly the pearl white from tamiya is quite transparent and definately needs to be backed with another colour.

I'd back the Pearl white with standard white tamiya paint, as the name suggests the pearl white is pearl :D so you will get that lovely pearl effect from that.

Good luck

[teamorsum96]

If I remember correctly the pearl white from tamiya is quite transparent and definately needs to be backed with another colour.

I'd back the Pearl white with standard white tamiya paint, as the name suggests the pearl white is pearl :D so you will get that lovely pearl effect from that.

Good luck
he knows what hes talking about :thumbsup:

[mattJT]

If I remember correctly the pearl white from tamiya is quite transparent and definately needs to be backed with another colour.

I'd back the Pearl white with standard white tamiya paint, as the name suggests the pearl white is pearl :D so you will get that lovely pearl effect from that.

Good luck

he knows what hes talking about :thumbsup:


Hi guys, well the original one I was after was the old pearl, alas my LHS only had white, so plain white it is :)

Gonna do the spraying in a mo, then adding the mound of stickers :D

So should be able to post up something either alot later on tonight or after paintballing tomorrow :thumbsup:


Cheers
matt

[teamorsum96]

So should be able to post up something either alot later on tonight or after paintballing tomorrow :thumbsup:


now why dont you take it paint balling with you and see what design you get lol

[mattJT]

now why dont you take it paint balling with you and see what design you get lol


Lol, ace idea.......other peeps may think I'm a bit odd tho when I start shooting my shell for effect rather than the opposition :thumbsup:

[teamorsum96]

well try painting tie dye on a lexan shell lol thats funny because takes like 10seconds from start to finish lol

[beckybean66]

example of one of teamorsum96's random experiments with paint lol ..

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n147/retardedcamel/001.jpg

[teamorsum96]

its tie dye lol

[roboliver]

if you want to use non poly paint spray the body with clear clear crylon paint that will give the plastic paint something to adhear too and the crylon wont crack or flake

[mattJT]

Well, I've managed to get it this far tonight.....

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i425/mtone09/New%20Slash%20Shell/DSCF2151.jpg

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i425/mtone09/New%20Slash%20Shell/DSCF2153.jpg

All sprayed, cut and trimmed and ready to go for tomorrow (just need to remove safety film and sticker away :thumbsup:)

[teamorsum96]

nice and simple :thumbsup::thumbsup:

[U1timate PigDog]

Clean and tidy, shame you could of got the pearl, it would of added that little bit of sparkle. But should look cool once you've gone to town on the stickers :D

[mattJT]

nice and simple :thumbsup::thumbsup:

There is that bit of me that thinks it would have looked nice as is, however started putting the stickers on before I headed out this morning, may have to wait to later tomorrow to finish, proper battered, bruised and achey following paintball :D

Clean and tidy, shame you could of got the pearl, it would of added that little bit of sparkle. But should look cool once you've gone to town on the stickers :D

Aye, i'm just too inpatient really, was waiting on the paint for two days after the shell came and couldn't bring myself to wait anymore, just wanted to get on with it ;)

and here it is so far, talk about posting a work in progress :)


http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i425/mtone09/New%20Slash%20Shell/DSCF2156.jpg

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i425/mtone09/New%20Slash%20Shell/DSCF2157.jpg

[beckybean66]

i quite like that, stickers always finish of the shells nicley, not been able to find any decent and small enough stickers for mine in soooo long :(

[mattJT]

i quite like that, stickers always finish of the shells nicley, not been able to find any decent and small enough stickers for mine in soooo long :(

Cheers beckybean :) What car you running?

[teamorsum96]

yea stickers do finish it off,we both in same boat, we race mardaves v12 and micro buggies.

it looks sweet tho

[mattJT]

yea stickers do finish it off,we both in same boat, we race mardaves v12 and micro buggies.

it looks sweet tho


I once got some quite nice flame effect stickers when I had my mardave, same ones used on my mini, will have a trawl through my pictures and see if there still in there.........

Found them....

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i425/mtone09/shell/001.jpg

http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i425/mtone09/010.jpg

Ebays an excellent place for stickers all shapes and sizes, it's where I've found all of mine on and pretty sure that you wouldn't find any difficulties finding ones for your Mardaves and Micros too ;)