by payaso

After reading the first article and getting our masking and primer done, let’s remove the masking, and clean up any bleeding. After the primer paint dries we’ll mask for design, effects, and parts then lay down our base coat paint (the main color of your body).

Once your first coat of paint has dried, if desired – you can keep painting an overcoat to fix any imperfections. You should however, try to reduce the number of overcoats, after all, we’re dealing with micro sizes and weights, and thick – heavy paint jobs add weight, plus there’s a tendency for the paint to run more.

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by payaso

There’s no introduction needed really, it’s pretty self-explanitory ? we’re talking about painting a Bit body here. The only thing to note here is that we’re talking about painting right on top of the body. This allows you to paint fine details like side-view mirrors, headlights, grills, and have them blend in naturally with the paint on the rest of the body. With that said, let’s just dive right in shall we?

First, make sure you body is clean with no dust specs, hairs, etc. It must be clean, if there’s any debris, it’ll ruin your paint job. Cans of compressed air come in handy for blowing away debris, while keeping the body itself free of finger prints, scratches, fuzz, etc.

Now, it’s time to do some basic masking, unless you plan to have your windows painted, you better mask them. You can just use regular manilla colored masking tape, cheap, easy to find and easy to manipulate. Take pieces of tape off the role, relatively the size you’re going to need, you want to work with only what a piece the size neccessary to cover the area to be masked.

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