painting

GaryMan · #1 12-30-2003, 07:33 PM

i've decided to paint my car once i pick up my my body kit, i just wanted to know if i should primer first or not i have a red supra, and im going to paint it baltic blue to match my focus (lol) sugestions would be nice, im also going to search around the forum some more for answers.

Joey · #2 12-30-2003, 08:16 PM

There are a lot of really good tips out there; from what I've read, there's really no 'best' paint for these. But from what I've seen, Tamiya beats the crap out of everything else on the market. I don't see why you wouldn't put down a coat of primer first.

Other than that, just don't try to paint the whole thing in one sitting; use light, quick sprays (if you do, indeed end up using dpray paint, which I imagine you will), and a coat of Tamiya gloss after the finishing paint 'looks like glass,' to quote Bad Company.

GaryMan · #3 12-30-2003, 08:34 PM

well i was going to do spray paint style but so far i can find baltic blue in spray form only liquid for ( for brush and airbrush aplication). if i can find in spray paint for great but if i can well i'll just have more work put into it =)

Joey · #4 12-30-2003, 08:48 PM

It's probably the same basic principle for airbrushing. Quick and light, don't load it up too much at once. You can do some pretty neat effects with airbrushes.

GaryMan · #5 12-30-2003, 09:38 PM

intede you can but my buddy only had detail brush's so i wont beable to paint a car his just going to do the pin strip work(tribal pattern really...).

hotrod29728 · #6 12-30-2003, 10:30 PM

please i need a response tonight about this painting i just recently bought a civic that is black and i want to spray the rims black but the paint keeps looving away from the out side of the rims and leaving a silver ring around the rim plus the edges of the spokes to please someone help me please .... what do i do?

Joey · #7 12-30-2003, 10:45 PM

Well first you might want to get a new set of rims instead of risking eating away at those when you try to strip the bad paint off. Then you paint more lightly next time, so it sticks better, and then you could put a layer of sealant on top of it so that whatever's beating at the paint would have to burn through the seal first.

If it's a ring around the outside, your tires are probably just shifting a little when you take off and stop suddenly, maybe even in turns. You could try putting a piece of double-sided tape between the top of the rim and the tire to keep it from doing that too much.

hotrod29728 · #8 12-30-2003, 11:28 PM

no its like the paint im useing is pushing itself away from the edge of the rim where i painted plus is there any way to save these rims and use like primes and sand paper to fix them? i dont have enought money to buy a new set and i think i have some testors primer to put over the black im trying to use but will that stick?then use the black paint i have

Joey · #9 12-30-2003, 11:54 PM

Well yeah, you could sand all the paint off of the ones you have, but you (1) had better be really good at sanding, so you don't corrode the plastic itself away, and (2) have very small hands to get all in between the spokes and whatnot.

If you really want to keep this set of rims, take the paint off first, however you may have to do it. Putting a coat of primer over an already-failing layer of paint isn't going to help anything. Even so, it's not going to be easy to get that paint off.

Good luck with that.

hotrod29728 · #10 12-31-2003, 02:46 PM

the primer stuck good to the screwed up black and the rims turned out fine
i used testors primer and a can of Wal-Mart Color Place paint which cost .97 cents