kamil

guys what other body to recomend for my savagae i was thinking oh the h2 but im not sure is there any other cool looking ones

pagedm

Hi guys,
many of you may have seen the photos of all the HPI bodies that they have available. On some of the muscle car bodies the bumpers are really shiny, do any of you know how to acheive that and what paint you would use? I see that LRP have a special chrome paint for polycarb but I am finding it hard to get in Aus.

HerrSavage

I also couldn't decide which color..

HerrSavage

Actually, I can give some fairly useful advice.. I bought my Savage 25(not the X in the pics above..) new with a big Proline Hummer body - and it has lasted and lasted and lasted. Finally it was starting to look pretty beat down, so I went and got a Hot Bodies Dodge Durango body.

Well, after about four tanks the Durango body is nearly as worn looking as the Hummer. The Cayenne is just as thin and flimsy as the Durango.

Lesson: go with Proline.

(though my next body will be a muscle car - El Camino - black with white stripes on the hood... But hey, it'll look good for those four tanks...)

myber92fs

its Spaz Stix Mirror Chrome . Too get true chrome look for bumpers and trim

pagedm

Thanks, I found a local supplier, pretty good price too.

Have any of you used internal decals on your bodies? I picket up a set of venom racing tribal flames to try on my Savage GT-1 body, I have never used them before. If you have post some pics, I will when I have done it this weekend.

46u

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I do not worry about anything fancy on my bodies as they get beat up broke and replaced to often.

poe

what is the procedure for painting them yourself? Could you just paint a whole body chrome? Also can you use regular car paints on lexan? i guess not, if you cant do the big manufacturers like house of kolors make lexan paints too?

Chronic

Here is a couple of fresh bodies that I did for my trucks. I'm no painter, as you can tell

I also do all of the trimming before laying down the paint.

bigbodychevy

I found some nice paint tips online.


I use to be pretty slick in art when I was in school haven't done any drawing or painting Since I left highschool in 1996.
I just got myself and air compressor(craftsman from Sears), and a good air brush. Down to testing some of the info I have found.

Here is how to do chrome.

R/C Car Painting and Airbrushing
Section IV: Specialty Paints



Chrome
What if instead of painting bumpers, engine blocks, trim or other details silver, you could paint them a true chrome finish? Now you can with two different paints, Alclad II Lacquers Chrome and Spaz Stix Liquid Metal. For the first time, r/c painters can achieve true chrome metal look. Prior to this paint, if you wanted chrome bumpers on your r/c car, you either had to settle for silver or use a model sheet film. Neither was ideal with the silver being, well, silver and the sheet films being tedious to apply. With some simple, careful attention to your work, either Spaz Stix Liquid Metal or Alclad Chrome can give you the chrome you've been looking for.



What It Is
Both Spaz Stix Liquid Metal and Alclad II Lacquer chrome are lacquer based paint, sold in 1 oz. vials. Inside the paint, which looks clear with dust inside when new, are small particles which when sprayed and allowed to dry, produce a smooth chrome finish. When drying, the particles align and settle creating a mirror like finish. It should be noted that Alclad II has versions available for both static plastic models as well as Lexan car bodies, be sure the paint you are buying says "For RC Bodies" on the label or you will have the wrong paint. Applying the paints require the same steps for each paint so once you've master one, you've mastered them both. Do NOT use a hair dryer to speed this along since the particles will not align correctly.

Note: Normally I recommend scuffing the inside of the body before you spray to allow for better paint adhesion. Do not do this with chrome since it will stop the mirror like finish. (on a cool note, if you are going for the brushed metal look, scuffing the body before your spray the chrome results in that look.)



Chrome Application
Again, start with a properly prepped body, free of mold agents and finger prints.
Set you air pressure to between 15 and 20 psi. Any more and it will dry in the airbrush, any less and it will spatter.
There is no need to thin the paint. In fact, doing so will ruin it.
Apply 3 thin coats. If using Alclad II Lacquers Chrome, allowing it to dry between coats for a good 30 minutes to an hour. If using Spaz Stix Liquid Metal, it only requires a minute or two between coats! During this time, the paint will settle and the particles will realign on the paint. One great benefit to the Spaz Stix Liquid Metal is that the bottle is designed to accept the top of many paint brush siphon cups, which means you can just screw on the bottle and not mess and clean a paint cup.
Holding a black card or shirt behind the paint, check the density of your coats. If it looks like chrome when you hold the card behind the body, you've applied enough paint.
Clean your airbrush with r/c lacquer based paint thinner.
Per the instructions on the bottle, back the chrome with any dark acrylic. I've found black works universally. Do not use a lacquer based paint for backing, (i.e. Pactra Lacquers!) since it will react with the paint! Use Parma FasBlack or Pactra Acryl Black.
Revel in the awesome wonder of your creative skills!


Tinted Chrome
Alclad recently introduced a line of transparent tint colors to tint your chrome! They are a transparent paint you spray first, then back with Chrome to achieve Red, Blue, Green or Yellow chrome. Their application is very easy: Simply spray a few coats of the transparent color on the body before you spray the chrome. When you have an even coat that has dried, then spray and back the chrome as you normally would.


above info is a small exerpt from the cats @$$ in paint tips.


Some quick paint tips.

http://www.diynet.com/diy/rc_other/a...275897,00.html

The cats @$$ in paint tips.

http://www.rctech.net/articles/paint...ntedmyst.shtml

jonmills

heres my second n third attempt at painting some shells

jonmills

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veedub

that hummer body rocks my socks off. how did u paint it?

bigbodychevy

All the info you need to do the hummer body is in the links I posted above.

How to do the true chrome, and multi color scheme.

Hint you need liquid mask. Read the info on the http://www.rctech.net/articles/paint...ntedmyst.shtml

jonmills

thanx veedub! like bigbodychevy said check out the rctech link its a fairly good one. plus http://www.cptnet.com/ken/faq.html#top n http://www.rc-cars.net/rccp/ aswell.... im sure theres alot more, just try out the ever faithfull google[sm=thumbup.gif]

LaxerMan21

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How do you guys think a Hellfire body would look on my savvy? [img]http://www2.gpmd.com/image/h/hpic8798.jpg[img]