Here's a couple pics. My little brother accidently formatted my camera's card.. So I lost the second, and third stages of my body. The color didn't turn out perfect like I wanted 🙁 I was hopeful, but I got the dang thing too dark. I think it still looks alright, and I hope the last step, white backing changes some of the bad coloring. I doubt it will.
I did use a different tape this time, which I'm rather disappointed in. It didn't do any justice for the paint job... I used some 3m brand painters masking tape, and it didn't do a good job at all. It still looks decent for a bashing body. For my show body, I'm gonna use the good old stuff that I get at the LHS. I can't remember the brand name, but it works great.
For those who want to know, I was trying for a "Orange metallic flake" that is on a lot of the newer GM cars. I didn't want to use actual automotive paint, and figured it might come out where I wanted it. It was close, but no cigar. The green was a key lime flake, which I figured would work great with it.
By the way, I'm not using the new paint from the LHS for my next body. It was from I believe faskolor. It was in a spray can, and I won't ever use it again. I'll airbrush or hand paint them again. It was alright for a first coat, but really didn't do me justice.
However, I am particularly happy with the body other than the main color. I'm going with white windows, since clear is just bland in my opinion. I hope this base coating works better than the faskolor I used.
I have painted 16 or so bodies, and this one isn't the best, but it's decent I guess so far.
Let me know what you think. It's not a perfect body, but it'll do as a nice basher.
