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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 Chevy Blazer shell on a rock crawler that is painted in two-tone beige & brown.....

I just wondered if anyone knows where to get these colours from/who makes them in paints suitable for Lexan/Polycarbonate

Thanks in advance.

parma for the airbrush:
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXRV24
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXRV13&P=M

Can't find any for pactra out of the rattle can but I know at one time they had brown and maybe tan also. Might try ebay too.

Todd

Don't let yourself get tempted at buying old cans with discontinued colours. I've made that mistake in the past.
Those old cans just don't have the pressure anymore and spit and splatter.

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 bottom of the can.

I then take the tape off and drain the paint into my airbrush containers..............usually, the paint keeps extremely well - specially if you make it air-tight.

Seem to airbrush really well too.

Cheers

Darryn

RETRO R/C wrote: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 bottom of the can.

I then take the tape off and drain the paint into my airbrush containers..............usually, the paint keeps extremely well - specially if you make it air-tight.

Seem to airbrush really well too.

Cheers

Darryn

I do this too

Thanks for the heads up on the Fastcolor paints.... unfortunately i've never gotten on too well with the waterbased Parma paints - I also struggle to successfully cover large areas with my airbrush/compressor combo - I tend to use rattle cans for the main base colours & the airbrush for detail fades etc

Would be nice to find these 'retro' colours in spray cans

RETRO R/C wrote: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 bottom of the can.

I then take the tape off and drain the paint into my airbrush containers..............usually, the paint keeps extremely well - specially if you make it air-tight.

Seem to airbrush really well too.

Cheers

Darryn

That's a good tip, now that I have an airbrush, I'll have to keep that in mind. I bought 3 cans of old Pactra CheZoom Teal and 2 of them were just as Mr. ED described--all they did was spit and splatter, even after I gave them a good soak in hot water beforehand and shook the hell out of them. I ended up just throwing an otherwise nearly full can of paint out in disgust.

I've also had older (but seemingly full) cans of paint do nothing when you press the nozzle; as if all the propellant had leaked out. I didn't have the courage to try puncturing the can and find out otherwise, though...