I started out using masking tape and laid it across one way and then went criss cross the other way then spent a few hours cutting out every other square to leave a checker pattern. Total pain in the a**! But I think it looks ok. I was going to use blue on the back instead of white and also only wanted to go half way back at an angle with the orange but I changed it last min. Looks ok for a rattle can and masking tape job. I gotta get my air brush out again. I used to custom paint 1/24 scale slot car bodies. That was in my teens though. In my 30's now. Still a big kid ha ha
I painted 4 bodies this week: 1 for my lazer and 3 for my YZ-10's
The Lazer was the second one to get done, and kind of spoiling the first YZ-10 body a couple days before...I went with something easy & straightforward. Glad Id id because I really...
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still have to fit both together on the car, but just from mid-air trials I think they were made to work with the undertray of the original lazer body: not Z ZX ZXR , but I'm no pro ondistinguishing these
weather was bad last couple of days so i finished off one of my pro tech bodies i had
lieing around for some time. it is one old skool paint job as i always do. ok some of you will think it's boring
but i simply don't like multi color paint jobs...
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Looks great. It will look good sitting next to your Pennzoil GT too. 8)
He wanted the Team car boxart, but I convinced him to do the scheme found on the last page of the team car manual instead. Colors aren't exactly the same but the design is close:
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What color is the maroon/brown? It looks like the same color on the RC10T Team Truck, T2 and RC10GT.
Just got this mrlexan reproduction lid painted tonight. It still needs stickers, but the forum has been quiet for a few days so I figured I'd post it up as is.
The lines are not as neat as I would like and are a bit too wide, but it will do for a...
This one is pretty much unharmed. All it needed was some new paint, so in the brakefluid tub it went.
The new paint ended up foggy after hardening, so after 5 coats with the same result, I took it to the boilerroom and...
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Here's a helpful video on a Hilux getting a custom paint job:
I painted 4 bodies this week: 1 for my lazer and 3 for my YZ-10s.
The first one in line was one of Mrlexan's repops for the 870C. Unfortunately it didn't go all that well: I played araound with the masking and cans to get transition effects, but,...
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:lol: nice paint jobs Erik, I like them! When do we meet again?