Painting lexan bodies

[Bobby Shaftoe]

I have two simple questions:

1) Does anyone have any first hand experience of how transparent Tamiya's
PS-6 Yellow is? i.e. Should I back it with white before overpainting for
further detail? The conclusion I've come to is that I should back the
metallics (blue and purple) in white for maximum effect (it worked well on
my car) but since I'm mixing the yellow and metallics in the same design I'm
going to have to overpaint one of them in the other.

2) Generally I've put lots of coats of paint onto lexan bodies to create a
very thick paint job. This has worked well with little/no cracking of
paintwork but recently a fellow hobbyist suggested that a thinner paint job
would survive better. I'm a little aware that most people that respond to
this will be biased and I don't want another BSD/Linux argument :)

TIA,
Bobby

[Paul - xxx]

Bobby Shaftoe typed:
> I have two simple questions:
>
> 1) Does anyone have any first hand experience of how transparent Tamiya's
> PS-6 Yellow is? i.e. Should I back it with white before overpainting for
> further detail? The conclusion I've come to is that I should back the
> metallics (blue and purple) in white for maximum effect (it worked well on
> my car) but since I'm mixing the yellow and metallics in the same design
> I'm going to have to overpaint one of them in the other.

I back metallics with silver and flat colours with white. Yes, back yellow
with white before doing any more painting, same as any other colour. The
backing adds the 'body' to the colour and stops them going 'washy' ..

Good masking is the key .. which I'm not good at .. ;)



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[Dean]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:06:47 GMT, "Bobby Shaftoe"
<NObobbySPAMsPLEASE@softhome.net> wrote:

>
>I have two simple questions:
>
>1) Does anyone have any first hand experience of how transparent Tamiya's
>PS-6 Yellow is? i.e. Should I back it with white before overpainting for
>further detail? The conclusion I've come to is that I should back the
>metallics (blue and purple) in white for maximum effect (it worked well on
>my car) but since I'm mixing the yellow and metallics in the same design I'm
>going to have to overpaint one of them in the other.

Paint from dark to light, then you do not need spacer coats. Paint
the dark colors first, then unmask and paint the lighter colors, then
finally back the entire thing with a white or silver backing layer(s).
It requires some planning, but the colors turn out great. And the
trick is do 3 or so light coats, rather than 1-2 heavy coats, heavy
coats do not work well at all with the paints and bodys we use.

>2) Generally I've put lots of coats of paint onto lexan bodies to create a
>very thick paint job. This has worked well with little/no cracking of
>paintwork but recently a fellow hobbyist suggested that a thinner paint job
>would survive better. I'm a little aware that most people that respond to
>this will be biased and I don't want another BSD/Linux argument :)

A few light coats, and a solid white or siver backing will protect the
paint, and make it more bright and solid.
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