Ascender
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- Messages
- 297
- Location
- Galloway, Ohio, USA
I decided to go All American for the Fourth. Thought about it for a while, and decided you can't get much more American than a big old Hemi muscle car and the American Flag, so I painted me up an HPI 69 Charger R/T body in the good old Red, White, and Blue.
In this case Metallic Red(RC264), Pearl White(RC276), and Candy Blue(RC272), backed with Silver(RC262) and White Covercoat(RC290)
I didn't do a great job of getting the how-to pictures at each step, but I got enough to show you what I did:
I washed out the body throughly with Dawn soap, let it dry, and applied the window masks included in the kit. Then I coated the entire inside of the shell with 2 coats of Parma FasMask and let it set thoroughly overnight.
Then I cut the stars from a sheet of nylon sticker mask using a pattern I got online, scaled to the right size.
The next day, I cut the mask and peeled it back from the Union(the blue section of the flag), leaving it in the supercharger snout, and laid out the stars, which took a bit of work to get straight...
Then I sprayed the Candy Blue, 2 thick coats.
Once the blue was THOROUGHLY dry, I cut the stripes and pulled out the sections that would be red. Then I used masking tape and a Hobbytown bag to mask off the Union, then sprayed two coats of the red and let it dry.
Once the red was dry, I pulled the tape and pulled the FasMask out of the supercharger and the sidepipes...
...then shot the Union and the red stripes with a heavy backing coat of metallic silver.
Finally, I pulled the mask from the white stripes and stars, and shot the entire inside with two coats of pearl white, which is actually transparent aside from the pearl texture. I backed that with two coats of white covercoat. When it all dried, I pulled the window masks, cut the body, and stickered it up.
End result:
In this case Metallic Red(RC264), Pearl White(RC276), and Candy Blue(RC272), backed with Silver(RC262) and White Covercoat(RC290)
I didn't do a great job of getting the how-to pictures at each step, but I got enough to show you what I did:
I washed out the body throughly with Dawn soap, let it dry, and applied the window masks included in the kit. Then I coated the entire inside of the shell with 2 coats of Parma FasMask and let it set thoroughly overnight.
Then I cut the stars from a sheet of nylon sticker mask using a pattern I got online, scaled to the right size.
The next day, I cut the mask and peeled it back from the Union(the blue section of the flag), leaving it in the supercharger snout, and laid out the stars, which took a bit of work to get straight...
Then I sprayed the Candy Blue, 2 thick coats.
Once the blue was THOROUGHLY dry, I cut the stripes and pulled out the sections that would be red. Then I used masking tape and a Hobbytown bag to mask off the Union, then sprayed two coats of the red and let it dry.
Once the red was dry, I pulled the tape and pulled the FasMask out of the supercharger and the sidepipes...
...then shot the Union and the red stripes with a heavy backing coat of metallic silver.
Finally, I pulled the mask from the white stripes and stars, and shot the entire inside with two coats of pearl white, which is actually transparent aside from the pearl texture. I backed that with two coats of white covercoat. When it all dried, I pulled the window masks, cut the body, and stickered it up.
End result:
nothing against Americans ...
