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02-25-2007, 10:25 AM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Eau Claire
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|  Painting lexan on the outside..
I've seen in the past, a few threads on here about painting the underside rust or silver and then shooting the colors on the outside then over coating with future floor wax. I have model for about 30 years, and have done lexan on the outside on some slot cars and stuff. But how durable is the future topcoat? I know it has been used to cheat on spit shining combat boots but flakes bad. Does it do it on the leaxan bodies??? I know there was a yellow wrangler done not too long ago on here, I though it was r2j that did it, but I can't find the thread on it.
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02-25-2007, 11:19 AM
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| I'm a stupid C U N T! Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In the Garage!
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when i painted mine with that meathod, minus the floor wax, i had planned that the paint will be damaged eventually, so that the "bare metal" look would show through  I hear topflight clearcoat works well too, and its flexable sorta. its designed for painting plastic and fiberglass cowls and wheel pants
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03-03-2007, 10:43 AM
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| Official Scale Nazi Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Monticello, IL
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Just make sure to use LACQUER instead of ENAMEL. The lacquer doesn't flake off. It does scratch off though.
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03-03-2007, 12:19 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Massachusetts
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Heres Run2Jeepn's body build up with the rust paint on the inside, yellow on the outside. Working on a Scale YJ |
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03-04-2007, 10:56 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: USA
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I put about 3 coats of Future on mine. I think I put to much b/c it doesn't scratch real easy. It's really tuff stuff. I tried scratching it with a rock by hand and it hardly even did anything. But maybe once I really start to bash it and run it hard it will show.
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03-06-2007, 12:09 PM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Martinsburg WV
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After screwing up the masking on my last HPI Bronco, I ended up spraying the black hood, roof and wheelwells on the outside. I used Tamiya Metallic black, but it ended up looking almost flat black. I've beaten the crap out of this body for 3 months, and it's just got a few scratches on the corners. It still looks surprisingly half-decent despite all the abuse... |
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