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Looking to see if it is possible to do a box art style paint job but using translucent paint?

askbob wrote:Looking to see if it is possible to do a box art style paint job but using translucent paint?

I could suggest a good way to find out.....

I look forward to seeing it!

Alex

I hope so Alex.
Anyone here capable of trying this? A painter I am not.

if you can get ahold of some Pactra candy paint .. yes it is

I would think any kind of candy--maybe some pearls too--would go on quite transparent, as those colors usually need backing coats of silver or white.

Krylon Stained Glass paint is also an idea, but I doubt it would be as durable; it's suitable for plexiglass & glass, but I don't think it's intended for thin, flexible Lexan, it might crack or flake off. But for a shelfer or just for show, it would work well. I've used this paint to color a clear plexiglass fan grille for a computer case I modded many years ago. The number of coats determines how deep the color will be.

^ Will have to check into those.
My thoughts were that trying to get the stripes without bleeding into each other might be a problem.

Whatever color you want translucent will have to be the last thing to be applied.

I think that would look amazing. I would love to see the end result.

Still searching for someone to attempt this.

Curious as to who you want someone else to attempt, and put money into, your idea?

Nobody was a painter when they started RC, but everyone learned. Maybe now is your time to give it a shot.

I know for me personally, I don't want to waste my money on someone else's idea, because if it fails, I'll be pissed that I wasted $30 in paint and $20 on a body.

It's knowing your limits. I personally hate painting, cause I suck at it. Here's a quote I heard a while ago.

"I'm a brilliant painter, minus my God-awful brushstrokes. Oh, how the masterpiece is crystal up here, but once paint hits canvas, I develop Parkinson's."

Hi Guys,

I suck at painting as well, but have decided that the cars I build I have to paint myself.

I started with my buggy one color.

My oval projects 2 colors.

I have worked out, make sure the paint is dry before removing paint masks. Duh!

I am slowly improving.

Next paint job for my RC10 CE will be 3 colors, I am copying someone else's design but they have

given me the o.k.

I would really like a box art RC10T but that is a long way off.

Cheers, Dave.

integra22t wrote:if you can get ahold of some Pactra candy paint .. yes it is

Never done it, don't want to try it. But it would be pita. You'd have to deal with darkest to lightest in order of application, no backer.....Almost like you would have to mask everything off by colors. Mask everything but the color you were shooting, then mask over that to prevent making different colors by overlapping the translucents.

If you had several identical masking "kits"......man, you'd have to nail the alignment of the re-masks or an un-human ability with liquid mask. I don't even want to think about how even the coats would have to be for shade uniformity. And the amount of "handling" and masking, those stained glass paints might not even stick.

A candy lexan paint would be the way to go. But availability of the colors. A box art theme with available candy colors? Painting lexan bodies not my forte either.

Nothing of use in my response now that read it, but I invested all this time banging this out on this Smurf sized keypad.....

Mark

I suppose you could do a really close approximation if you just used the re-re decals and made the orange translucent.

You just need to do some testing on some leftover Lexan and see how it turns out.