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I think those wheels would look sick with painted centers to match what ever color you go on the body

I thought about that Sho and I think you are correct but my painting and masking skills are not up to it

Looking great mate, reminds me of mine

FERRETTI wrote:I thought about that Sho and I think you are correct but my painting and masking skills are not up to it

It's actually so easy, you will kick yourself for not doing it sooner. here are a set of mine that I painted with tamiya clear orange paint



First, polish the lip of the wheel. then mask most of the lip off. you don't hav eto worry about the area where dimples are. Spray your paint, then take the masking tape off and use laquer thinner on a Q-tip to remove the paint from the dimpled area.

Hi shodog, great tips as always and thanks for your reply to my pictures question on TC. Does lacquer thinner react with anodizing would you know? I would like to remove some paint from anodized parts you see and need to work out the product to use.

Yes Shodog I saw those ones and did think they looked totally stunning. I might give it a go but one of the other problems I have is no airbrush set up.

Ferretti, Tamiya makes the clear paint in rattle cans now.

Dr.- I have not encountered laquer thinner harming the annodizing but it will melt quite a few types of plastic.

shodog wrote:Ferretti, Tamiya makes the clear paint in rattle cans now.

However can you get a flat enough application from a can

FERRETTI wrote:

However can you get a flat enough application from a can

what do you mean by flat?

Flat as in non shiny or flat as in a smooth even coat of paint?

the clear spray in the rattle can is what I used for both of these wheels and it looks fantastic.

Well if that's a rattle can finish it's good enough for me. In the UK flat usually refers to smoothness, sorry Sho I should have been a little clearer.

FERRETTI wrote:Well if that's a rattle can finish it's good enough for me. In the UK flat usually refers to smoothness, sorry Sho I should have been a little clearer.

Well, you chaps also tend to lay down some unbelieveable brush paint jobs... I know what you meant by flat (thinned to eliminate brush strokes). Not matte.

Cheers shodog I'll look into that



By the way Ferretti I noticed you mounted your nose plate under the chassis, was there any reason for that? I mounted mine with the plate on top for no particular reason.



I was wondering does anyone know what the correct set up is, if there is one? The chassis is countersunk and so is the nose plate so that's what confused me when I was assembling my car.

Cheers

I guess Ferretti mounted it under the chassis because he used a composite craft nose plate that is totally flat and had most probably problems with mounting the steering rack without any binding/scratching. If you use the standard aluminium nose plate, mount it on the top of the chassis, like on a gold tub...

Asso_man! wrote:I guess Ferretti mounted it under the chassis because he used a composite craft nose plate that is totally flat and had most probably problems with mounting the steering rack without any binding/scratching. If you use the standard aluminium nose plate, mount it on the top of the chassis, like on a gold tub...

I think I know what you mean. Like the proper RC10 nose plate has a kink where it joins the chassis right? I think Ferretti has used the same nose plate as me and generally the cars are very similar and I didn't seem to have any binding problems....

Speak up Ferretti, I need to know

This thread makes me really want to finish mine first!!!

Dr. Robotnik wrote:

Asso_man! wrote:I guess Ferretti mounted it under the chassis because he used a composite craft nose plate that is totally flat and had most probably problems with mounting the steering rack without any binding/scratching. If you use the standard aluminium nose plate, mount it on the top of the chassis, like on a gold tub...

I think I know what you mean. Like the proper RC10 nose plate has a kink where it joins the chassis right? I think Ferretti has used the same nose plate as me and generally the cars are very similar and I didn't seem to have any binding problems....

Speak up Ferretti, I need to know

This thread makes me really want to finish mine first!!!

The nose plate I have has chamfered edges, if it were mounted on top the chamfer would be the wrong direction, does that make sense I will try and post a pic to illustrate when I get home from work.