So i have a set of Tecnacraft wheels but they have paint on the back from being mounted to some painted hubs. Anybody have an idea how to remove the paint without hurting the Ano?
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On a side note i also tried the acetone trick to remove some tires from a set of wheels, it also worked great, i was worried during the process, the tires kinda grew and got really soft, but after the glue was gone and the tires sat for a wile they...
After going through a couple paint jobs I have decided on race colors for my runners. The paint job is not perfect but I am very happy with the results. The cars look great next to each other. Now I just need to fix the RC10 and the Jrx2.
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The paint job is sharp looking. Good job with your bodies there.
Here is my Curtis Husting checkered paint scheme replica as seen on the cover of the original RC10 manual. I still have to paint the wing and the driver and install decals. This paint scheme was NOT easy! I have about 18 hours in it so far.
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Yeah, I know this is an old thread......but WOW ! Excellent job ! and to get props from the man himself, how cool is that ? 8)
I need to finish up a few little odds and ends but this car will be up for sale soon. Just wanted to show off the new paint I did this weekend. I was going to do a red white and blue theme, but after I got the black and the blue down I changed my...
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whatever u decide to do with the wing I am sure it will look as good as the rest..looking forward to seeing what u come up with
Finished my black widow rc10 body. I sprayed on several light and I do mean light coats with the black there was no bleed through on the pinstriping but as I went the tape seemed to srhink a little bit and the inside corners pulled up and I got...
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Thanks for the complements! It has been refered to as the widow or the spiderman car by my daughters. I haven't had the time to finish trimming it for the shock towers. My first candy paint job was my first hobby rc. So you can imagine how that...
Hello all.
If you look at my avatar on the left you will see My pride and joy.
It is a vintage Team associated gold pan rc10 monster truck.
It was very top heavy and I, My wife and any one I let try drive it woul flip...
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Hi Coelacanth.
I didn't know it was upside down. :lol:
The overspray film was on the outside and I painted on the inside.
So should I have remove the film and painted the outside.
your right it looks cool and the way I see it it directs air onto...
I was looking at their website the other day and fell in love with this body:
Problem is, I don't really know anything about their quality. Be it forming, decals, or fit of the multiple lexan parts. Anybody here had any experience with them? I...
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I was looking for a slack-jawed head-scratching smiley, but this one will have to do instead: :?
I've been searching eBay and the web for bodies, or painters,and haven't been to successful. I found this on eBay:
which is an amazing body, but how would I get the wing painted to match? :lol: Kinda weird :?
My question is....Who is the man...
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Someone did just that WMC. I got in touch with Luis in Spain. I have purchased the body and have my wing enroute to him. Cant wait to crown my build with such a showpiece! 8)
I have a bunch of parma fascolour paints, for the airbrush. What is the best thing to use to reduce for spraying?? laqur thinnner, paint thinner? I dont have access to the parma reducer (cant ship across the border anymore) It is water based but I...
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Hi.
As far as preventing paint from creeping under your tape I have found that burnishing the outer edge of the tape with an object as hard as your finger nail.
All you have to do is after youve applied your tape, rub along the edge with your...
Whats up with this paint. Thin coats with the airbrush drying with a heat gun between coats. The paint is pealing up with the tape after two coats. Peel when wet or score with the #11 blade ? Any help?
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A tip when using water based paint----air flow helps more then heat to dry this paint. If its cold out you will have to add heat but remember the air flow!
I have a rc10t2 that I dug out and would like to fix up to be new again! I would like to paint the frame blue and im wanting to either to buy the rpm products that are blue or dye the ones I have. (im having a hard time finding them) My...
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Thank you for your reply! I plan on running the car so I will look into the powercoat and get that done!
I'm waiting for these two to arrive at my house from Bradley Farmer at Bradley's Fine Line Designs. He does all my race bodies and I wanted these two to look the same as my current race cars since I want to have these two as modern runners.
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I bought a used 22 and couldn't read who did the body. This guy did mine as well, apparently. Very cool paint. (crappy cell pic)
I was told it was for a XXX but dont know any more than that. My daughter wants to drive the novice class next year and instead of getting another car it would be eaiser to just get a second body. The problem is standard losi XXX bodys dont fit the...
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Any ideas? Im pretty sure its not a deja vu B3 body. The pictures I have seen of that one have more sharp corners. This one is all rounded. I will try to get some better pictures this weekend.
I've got a Parma Clodbuster shell to paint & thought it would be cool to paint it in a suitably 70/80s retro colour scheme.... but most R/C paints tend to be bright & rather lurid colours.
I then noticed in the Proline catalogue that there is a...
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What I usually do with the old cans is shake them, tip them upside down and spray ALL of the propellant out.
When I am sure that all the propellant is gone - I punch a hole in the top of the can, place some tape over the hole and puncture the...
I'm pretty anal about keeping my stuff looking new and decided to apply 3M Carbon Di-Noc to the bottom of my RC10 CE.
From the 3M website:
3M™ DI−NOC™ Films are durable, cleanable, flexible PVC films with 3M’s Comply™ Adhesive air release channels...
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I bought a roll of this at Canadian Tire but I am hesitant to use it. It looked like CF in the package but when I opened it was just textured vinyl. Looks kind of cheap and certainly not up to any kind of running. Looks OK for a shelfer though. I...
I can't find a thread about this although I thought I read it somewhere, but can you paint a body using Parma Faskolor paints and Pactra paint? If so is there a certain process to doing it?
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fascolor is water based is why it breaks down in water. its also easly mixed with water or other additives to reduce the paint and make it easier to spray. you should allways back fascolor if possible. the pactra is more like your automotive paint...
I want to use some alclad chrome, to accent the side grills on the super champ. Currently have Tamiya Primer Under Tamiya Black.
Want to use alclad over the black
Then Top it with clearcoat by testors
will i have to worry about peeling or...
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Alclad has a black base that works great. I have used Alclad chrome over their black base and covered it with Createx gloss clear with great results. Looks only slightly less shiny than my chrome plated stuff. If you do not compare side to side, it...
I just got done watching The Last Unicorn(1982) with my 5 year old daughter. As always I was mostly thinking of vintage r/c the whole time. :mrgreen: Being from 1982 it was true animation, not the computer based stuff you see today(although I do...
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How do you do/get the thin black line outlines? By hand? Anyone know?
I use to tape 2 exacto blades together and cut the liquid mask. I modified my exacto to hold the 2 blades...but I noticed that sometimes, holding it by hand gave me more control.
I know not many people are great with painting bodies for their RC cars and it can be a chore to knock out a decent looking body sometimes, so that made me think what would people rather have when buying a new or used RC10.
What my actual question...
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I used to always paint for myself... now that I am older (little more money) and want better I source out my jobs now. I find pretty good deals, always satisfied with the work- here's a few that I have had commissioned over the past year. Oh and I...
I'm painting my RC10 body using Fascolor Red and I wanted to know what color to use as a top coat. I know to use silver with white, but what about with red? thanks for the insight.
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I am surprised Scr8p (Mr. Kyosho) didn't point out that those are NOT AE shocks on that RC10. :lol:
atleast the car was built......
What kind of solutions are necessary to do anodizing and get all those cool colors? AND where do I get them without being in the industry? I remember RC CAR doing a home brew anodizing article like 20 years ago, using dry cells or lantern batteries,...
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This guy is less than Caswell Plating and he's a fellow Pennsylvanian too.
I know it's a bit tough to get in the nooks n crannies, but non-painted - am I missing something here? :wink:
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Yeah, whether you paint it from the top or the bottom, you're going to see the paint-side on at least part of the wing. In the rare chance I do actually paint them, it's usually all white, or all black.
Hey all, still practicing for now. Hope you like, enjoy :D
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Really cool 8) You have great imagination & eye for what looks good... I like the fact also that anyone armed with one of your sticker sheets could create a similar bold colour scheme without being an ace painter.
I figured we could all house them in one spot as we get them mounted and painted up, so Brandon can see the fruits of his labor. I just got mine done, and hoping to have the rest of the car together so we can get enough vintage cars to run the class...
Freshly painted. This is my first official JRX2, I owned a XX and a XXX and helped my brother wrench on a JRX back in the day. But this one is MINE all mine.
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very creative, must practice more painting :oops: great job on this x2
I'll go from oldest to most recent...you will see a progression that way. :) Also, for a few of the bodies the color choice is um, unique. That is what the customer wanted. :lol: With exclusion fromt he mellow yellow decal and some headlights/grills...
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Here's the lighting on my E-Revo....sadly the body is now trashed. I loved that body so much. :( Had 20+ hours in it! :shock:
Has anyone tried fitting the J Concepts Bandit Illusion body to an RC10? It's got the right look (I think) but it appears to get real thin on the side pods which may require chassis trimming.
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does look like it could work, but there isnt any back to it at all, only picture i could find of it is here
hard to tell, i would say on a graphite chassis it would probably be fine, on a tub though.... would be close..
I'm not sure if this warrants a post, but I thought Id mention it nonetheless
I was recently thinking about how to improve the paint schemes I have on my cars. Ive seen people use art packages to do this, but since I don't have any of this kind of...
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Thanks for the post.
Here is another excel file based on the paint scheme of the Maxima from a thread I read earlier this week
Hi I would like to ask your opinion regarding on how to coat/paint a silver wheels.
I have a silver wheels that due to old age the paint/coating is peeling off.
Any paint that you can recommend or certain procedure to make it last longer?...
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Easy-Off oven cleaner with the yellow cap also works great to remove chrome & silver-metallized plating, and you'll have nice, white wheels ready for dye.
I posted this in the Yokomo forum as well but then realized that this is probably a better place.
I just messaged Masami on Facebook about what green he uses on his bodies and he got back to me right away but with little information. He said it was...
hey guys, got my hands on a 10T, and after seeing some of the great painted chassis's on the board (there is a brilliant white one...if I can find the thread)
how does one go about doing this? my chassis has a few scratches in it, so would need to...
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Thanks, I bookmarked that! They do some impressive powdercoating work there. I'll have to keep them in mind for the Charger, for when money's not so tight!
Hey guys, can you please help me out? I would like some basic tips on how to paint a body. I am quite good with a rattle can but I've never used things like liquid mask or done multiple layers etc. Pics would be helpful too. Thanks in advance.
Been having problems recently with paint lifting when I pull of the masking tape. I have been using Parma faskolor sealer and I'm wondering if the glue affect has something to do with it. I may have let it dry too long before I removed the tape. Ive...
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Yeah I've done that. But I usually find out where it rubs after I've damaged the paint. Thanks for the tips.
Has anyone here used Pactra paints in conjuction with Faskolor paints? The two brands each have ideal colors that the other doesn't have, and if it's possible, I'd combine them (not mix them, of course--just paint adjacent areas of a body with...
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I have another question along these lines. Has anyone done the FasGlitter/FasKoat technique, then instead of overspraying with a primary color of FasKolor, using Pactra instead? The final color I want to use by Pactra is a nicer shade than...
I did some searching, but didn't find anything. I just purchased a CE edition gold pan and someone painted alot of the nylon. It is still in good condition, just looks horrible. Can these be soaked in Super Clean or brake fluid like styrene to strip...
Ok a guy i work with is working on a 1932 Ford American Graffiti Coupe, I was thinking of building a scale car so i can show him my 32 lol, Anybody know of a company that makes a 32 ford body? or something like it?
This turned out so awesome I had to share. I have a pic posted in my other thread but I felt this deserved its own thread. It started out with inspiration from an orange rock star can. I love the orange black and gold, and figured I would make my...
Anybody have any tips on how this is done using an old already cut body. Can you just extend the body and hand finish the lower sections of the mold (around the cutlines)
I need a new project for summer lol
Thanks
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I would not use Alumilite. Yes it's expensive but the big problem is that once you start mixing both parts together, you've got about 3 minutes to get it all poured before it hardens. In large quantities it will also get air bubbles. If you want to...
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