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Caution: wet paint! (baja champ body goes godzilla style)

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Finished 4 bodies last week, and 3 more this week!

I found some netting and wanted to try a trick to get a lizard skin-look; something I had read about years ago.
This cheap body seemed perfect for the experiment.
First I did the metalic black; to have some place to attach the netting to. Unfortunately , the piece I had wasn't very flat and didn't stick close to the body. After the first coat of green on the central line I could already tell the mask wasn't working. because it was not sitting close enough to the body the paint just went under the mask and the pattern never showed.
As I had nothing too loose I decided to try something different: sprayed some candy blue over it and pressed the netting into the wet paint. because the green had dried too long already it only worked partially, but it worked well enough to keep going. Tried some pearl white in the mix and backed it al up with black:
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I repeated the same procedure for the sides, but started with yellow and immediately pressed the pattern on the wet paint. Then some candy blue, press, fluo green, press, remove the netting and finished off with black.
Much better result much due also to the bulged shape of the area; which greatly helped the netting to stick close to the body and effectively act as a mask:
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Overall I like the outcome: simple and clean AND different from the usal spray can job
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Now that is cool looking! Great paint job!

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Finally someone laying some paint! :lol: :lol: I really like this one, the scales look fantastic!
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Thanks guys
I'm really having fun finally painting some of the clear lexan lying around.
Crazy how I ended up with at least double the amount of lexan to the number of cars :roll:
With the paint on them the stock doesn't seem so pointless any more :lol:

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Great effects Eric. I haven't seen this style before and its a real credit to you. What will this body go onto, your scratch built 2WD?
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thanks,

don't know yet: the body on that custom car is still in good shape and I really like the martini theme on it too.
Since the car doesn't see much use , the body goes a long time :wink:

I think this baja champ body will fit an ultima real well also, just haven't buit any lately and already some bodies in line for more ultimas

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Post by Diggley »

Neat effect!

I've seen similar custom effects done on full size vehicles using plastic wrap on wet paint for a marbled look, spraying water droplets & dusting over them for a 3D look...very cool.

Now if I only had the patience to do this kind of stuff in 1/10 scale...

Nice work.
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