Paint!!!! inside or outside?

[PabloRC]

Im preparing a body for paint but I dont know if I should paint it from the outside or inside, im looking for a scale look. (lexan)

if painted on the outside, does the regular polycarbonate paint work?


any tips plz!


APRECIATE IT SO MUCH!

 

[ScalerLover]

As far as ive seen the paint works the same on the outside. I saw a guys build he painted the inside to look like rust, then painted the outside the color he wanted so when it scrapped off it looked like rust.... Hope this helps ;-)

 

[king_crawl22]

paint the inside silver, or if you want to, paint silver in some spots, and rust in others. and paint the outside whatever color you want to. then when it scratches, it will look more realistic"thumbsup"

 

[PabloRC]

Yes I read that too but Im a bit confused about the finish, some people paint it first with lexan paint and then regular, but i dont know if the spray a clean coat after that or not, Im not sure if the lexan paint or regular paint can hold without cracking incase of a scratch.

thanks for the reply though.

 

[SMFtwstdHICK]

Just grab ya some rattle cans and go for it. "thumbsup" Hmm. Course, on my hard body , I used cheap paint. But, on the lexan I used some actual testors or something rattle can.

 

[ScalerLover]

Yeah im sure any decent quality rattle can will work, just make sure the first 2-3 coats arent actually coats, more like tack coats, dont even try to get coverage with the first 2-3 mistings and im sure it will be fine.

 

[SMFtwstdHICK]

Primer is your friend as well.

 

[MirrorCarp]

If you paint on the inside the paint wont come off when you roll. The only bad thing is if you want to change the color you will have to paint on the outside.

 

[ripper7777777]

Here's what I do.

First off the lexan paint colors used all depend on the final top coat color. If I'm going with a top coat that matches or is similar to a lexan paint I use similar colors, other wise I use grey. Silver is OK but it doens't give quite the metal look your thinking.

I spray the inside first, I prefer pactra, Tamiya Polycarbonate is a nice paint but the cure time seems much longer, but they have some nice primer greys.


I than use pactra to paint the outside, this color really doesn't matter, if it's scratched it will be scratched to lexan.

I use Rustoleum Auto Primer, but Duplicolor Primer works, just make sure it's a laquer.

I than top coat with Duplicolor.

I prefer Rustoleums new Clear Laquers to Duplicolors Clears, Duplicolor requires quite a bit of wetsanding and polish to make it shine.
and that's really it.


You can also just clear over pactra paint on the exterior, I only use duplicolor top coats because they have a variety of factory colors.


Any flats or satins need to go after the Clear. So think about your paint scheme, plan it all out and make sure to read the manufacturers recommended cure and dry times.

Oh and Rustoleum Hammered is one of the best non lexan paints I have ever seen, it sticks really well and is great for the roll bars and bumpers on HPI bodies.

You will get scratches, any body will, what your avoiding is paint failure like chips or peeling, but it will happen if you crush the body, but thats inside and out.

When you get scratches, use some testors silver enamel, dab a bit into the scratch with a fine brush, use a bit of flat black and rust color to get that
just scratched look.

You can also mix inside and outside paint.

The blue is on the inside and the black and hammered on the outside.

or just go beater and not worry about it.