tips for painting inside black of hilift grill

[pantablo]

Okay, its not really a hilift, but the same principles would apply to my blackfoot grill.

I have two of these that came with the two bodies I got. One is still unpainted. The other is shown below. I would like my painted grill to look good and clean, like most of the hiift grills on here. THe ones that leave all the chrome and only paint the inside portions all look really good.

Are there any tips to painting the black areas same as this pic, but with clean lines?



this one was obviously done by hand with brush and the edges arent very good.
thanks in advance.

[tjb]

I normally use very thinned out black, and dab it in with a toothpick. Then rotate the grill to let it fill the area. Surface tension of the paint should keep it off climbing the sides. It takes a bit, but if you take your time it comes out looking really good

[hairba11]

It is called black wash, mixing flat black about 1:1 with thinner. it dries flat black, and pulls away from the edges, I have used the technique on 1:24 scale modles many times.

[Stormin2u]

Yup that's and old modeler's trick. I like those little detail brrushes.

[Brainstain]

Or, you could always dremel the back out to make it actually...? Gone? I dunno the word. But you could do that.

[pantablo]

thats not a bad idea...