You can tell me what the heck im doing wrong lol
Well, write down exactly how you would go about painting the shell. This is how I would do it:
Acquire a plastic body (the most important step IMO) and purchase paint according to how you want to paint the body. Make a quick sketch on paper about how you want the truck to look (this is important so you don't get half way done painting and realize that you trucked up big time.... Lol) Wash the body with soap and either dry it off with a hair dryer (don't tell the missus you're using her hair dryer) or use a microfiber towel (a CLEAN one, using a dirty one totally negates washing the body haha) Gather newspaper and old magazines or poster boards and place them on the sidewalk/ driveway. Get something to support the body off of the ground (I use old paper towel rolls or empty tubes of marine grease, just make sure the body doesn't touch the paper). Place the body on the supports (make sure the body won't be pushed around by the wind or the air from the paint can) then, shake up the paint cans, and paint your first light coat of the base color. (If you want black with yellow stripes, paint a thin layer of black paint all over the rig.
Please excuse my TERRIBLE version of an RC car lol, but when you are painting you should paint asterisk to asterisk.
This is somehow a RC car? Don't judge haha
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By painting like this, you will prevent paint from pooling up on the body and making very unpleasant bubbles in the paint. It's ugly, trust me. I trucked up and make a huge puddle on the roof of my 1/36 shell....it was a BIOTCH to fix...
Then let the paint dry for about 10 minutes. Then paint on a second coat, wait another 10 minutes, again and again until you get the desired color. Then take it into a controlled climate after the last coat dries, and let it there overnight. The next morning, mask off the body to paint the second color on. Let the paint dry and paint on another coat. It takes patience, and a lot of it. But in the end you'll love the outcome, and the rig will look amazing. Almost
If you want to make the rig look bad-arse, follow this link and do what he says. It seems very difficult, so you can try it out on a 1/24 plastic model you find at craft stores. I'm doing every step expect for the last one, I really trucked that up when I tried it on the 1/25 Jeep by Revell....
Hope this helps, now go get painting!
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