Painting my bug

[CRAIGB]

I just got a proline baja bug body for my axial ax10 scorpion. So figured I'd share. Here it is out of the bag.



Here it is trimmed up for my crawler and masked off to black out the windows.



Next ill be masking it up for my two tone paint scheme. Im using all automotive paints.

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Windows done, now pin stripes.
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My first body I've done, turned out good. Window masking was the hardest.[IMG][/IMG]

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[speed king]

looks pretty good to me was it relly hard? im trying to decide if i want to do more than 1 color on my bodies

[CRAIGB]

Its not to bad, masking from the inside is only part I found be a pain.

[red08yota]

Originally Posted by CRAIGB

Its not to bad, masking from the inside is only part I found be a pain.

Masking from the inside has always sounded hard to me too. Nice job looks great. Hope my first body turns out that good. Congrats.

[Trubble]

Originally Posted by CRAIGB

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Very nice. Looks really sharp.
Turned out better than mine did.

Originally Posted by red08yota

Masking from the inside has always sounded hard to me too.

One thing I've seen a LOT of people do is to use a Sharpie (marker) or pen to draw their lines on the outside of the overspray wrap, then mask the inside along those lines. It's still just kinda tough if you have monster paws and you're working inside a small body like a 1/12th scale or crawler body, or if your body has lots of ridges and curves to it.

[CRAIGB]

Thanks for comments, I can see were marker would help because that's one thing is trying to follow the clear body lines gets hard to see.