Screwed the first time. About to paint a second one

[Surchaufeur]

So i have been doing some research on painting. Im hearing a lot of different things. Seems to be different ways to get the colour you want to achieve. I want the main color of my corvette c8 body to be a deep metalic red vibrant red but not dark red with a metalic black or gun metallic grey.

One person claims for example use a paint combo. Like metalic red and then mica red but what about colour after that? Silver black or white??

One other say is to use translucent red for example and paint silver as a backing to get another kind of metallic red.

Masking seems also to be a pain to understand. Gun metal isnt black and has to be backed up by something?

 

[WildOwlWoodWorks]

Many ways to paint, but only 1 way to get the color you want. "Trial and error". I Suggest a piece of plexiglass from hardware store to experiment with..

 

[Surchaufeur]

Many ways to paint, but only 1 way to get the color you want. "Trial and error". I Suggest a piece of plexiglass from hardware store to experiment with..

Going to use old soda bottles

 

[WildOwlWoodWorks]

Going to use old soda bottles

Or you could just let me do it and answer all your questions about painting on a YT video featuring you C8 body..All the tips and tricks..

 

[Surchaufeur]

Or you could just me do it and answer all your questions about painting on a YT video featuring you C8 body..All the tips and tricks..

Tell you to do it?
I want to know the shades of metallic red possible with tamiya paints. That is what im trying to find out

 

[WildOwlWoodWorks]

Yes, let me do it anyway,Tamiya has different shades of red aerosol and airbrush paint.The airbrush lp-46 is the only real red metallic I know of by Tamiya,but it's airbrush paint. Not all paint tints are excact,but super Close..

 

[Surchaufeur]

Yes, let me do it anyway,Tamiya has different shades of red aerosol and airbrush paint.The airbrush lp-46 is the only real red metallic I know of by Tamiya,but it's airbrush paint. Not all paint tints are excact,but super Close..

im confused. Im planning to paint with tamiya paints. They are 10$ the can here. My body is coming next week but im not going to paint i think til it get warm outside

 

[WildOwlWoodWorks]

Sorry.. No confusion intended..

 

[Surchaufeur]

Sorry.. No confusion intended..

You want to paint a c8 body with the shade of red im looking for? Right? I want to paint my own body. If you want to make a video about how to paint to help me and others you can. but you don't need to paint a 100$ body experiment for me. Making shades of red with soda bottles is better but if you want to paint nobody will tell you not to

 

[WildOwlWoodWorks]

I was just kidding when I said let me do it.. I have painted bodies with mistakes and they weren't intended to be experimental.just painter mistakes. when I messed up the job,guess what,I bought a new body out of my own pocket and sent both the good and the bad to the customer. Or just sold the bad at Crazy prices. I'm not here twist feathers...Sorry I bothered you with my comment.

 

[Surchaufeur]

I really want to do the same thing as they did but instead metalic red and gun metal for the middles stripes. Getting those lines wont be easy.

 

[WildOwlWoodWorks]

Patience is key.. a good soap wash,alcohol wash and adhesion promoter,you will stare at that body for hours,like wow..I did that.trust me...

 

[Surchaufeur]

Patience is key.. a good soap wash,alcohol wash and adhesion promoter,you will stare at that body for hours,like wow..I did that.trust me...

Adhesion promoter?

 

[WildOwlWoodWorks]

Yes sir..It helps the paint apply with minimal runs... It works,light coats , heat gun or hair dryer or dry it in the sun with warm weather, let it do its own work...

 

[Velodromed]

Yes sir..It helps the paint apply with minimal runs... It works,light coats , heat gun or hair dryer or dry it in the sun with warm weather, let it do its own work...View attachment 205294

How do you apply it? One pass coat or more? And why didn’t you tell me about this yet?? JK man.

 

[WildOwlWoodWorks]

Just like any other paint,spray let dry

 

[Surchaufeur]

After thinking and talking with my hobbyshop i came back home with 3 colors. Ps-37 translucent red, ps-12 silver and the most interesting one ps-58 pearl clear. From what i was able to found online and from my friend at the hobbystore its metal flakes.

So my plan is to spray that on first a few coats then translucent red and to finish it with silver. I might switch the silver for bright gun metal i wanted to have more of a metallic effect. this is a gamble it can go amazing or terribly wrong. I can still return the paints or change colour if i don't open the cans. I have normal gun metal coming for the middle stripes. Im trying to achive something similar to this but a bit brighter. M6 other option could be metalic red with bright red and then white.

 

[RedondoBeachRC]

I’m trying to find a way to get a deep vibrant red too!

Tamiya metallic red has this cooper pigment to it that isn’t my favorite.

This was metallic red, back with black.

I was going to a Candy Orange here but ended up with cooper. Transparent orange, metallic red and a little fluorescent pink and then black.

This one is a color shifting paint. Iridescent purple/green, dark metallic blue, metallic green, backed with black.

I wanna try transparent red, fluorescent pink, and back it with gunmetal to see if I can get that red I want

 

[Surchaufeur]

I’m trying to find a way to get a deep vibrant red too!

Tamiya metallic red has this cooper pigment to it that isn’t my favorite.

This was metallic red, back with black.
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I was going to a Candy Orange here but ended up with cooper. Transparent orange, metallic red and a little fluorescent pink and then black.
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This one is a color shifting paint. Iridescent purple/green, dark metallic blue, metallic green, backed with black.
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I wanna try transparent red, fluorescent pink, and back it with gunmetal to see if I can get that red I want

So i found somethink similar to lexan afound my house i did 3 coats of metalic red then 2 coats of bright red. Backed with silver. The result is okay but i hope with the lexab its going to look a lot better. I did play with the number of coats on one of the tests but gave almost the same exact results

 

[RedondoBeachRC]

So i found somethink similar to lexan afound my house i did 3 coats of metalic red then 2 coats of bright red. Backed with silver. The result is okay but i hope with the lexab its going to look a lot better. I did play with the number of coats on one of the tests but gave almost the same exact resultsView attachment 205973View attachment 205974

If only that metallic red didn’t have that orange pigment to it