Painting Motorworks bodies

TIN · Post by **TIN** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 10:03 am

I ruined a motorworks body, and I need some suggestions. I'll make sure to clean it well this time, but I wanted to know if anyone else has had this problem with motorworks.

I painted the body with krylon, and every coat would react somewhat like water and oil. The paint would seperate and pool all over the body. I'm going to try again on a new body, but I was hoping someone might have some more experience with motorworks.

Thanks.

hue35 · Post by **hue35** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:05 am

Sounds like the paint wasn't compatible or you were trying to lay paint on a glossy finish without sanding or cleaning. Rough up the old paint with fine sandpaper then shoot a coat or two of primer. Now it's ready for paint.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Fri Jan 16, 2004 6:25 pm

TIN wrote:I painted the body with krylon, and every coat would react somewhat like water and oil. The paint would seperate and pool all over the body.

That's exactly the problem I have with cheap non-transparent clone bodies, using various types of laquers.

Best you can do is like Hue says, sand it really good and primer it. The primer will stick but it still doesn't like to sit very level. I always have to give it a sanding after the first couple coats, whether if I use primer or laquer, and then everything goes smoothly from there.

Really I just try really hard to avoid wanting to paint bodies like that.

Bird · Post by **Bird** » Sat Jan 17, 2004 12:38 pm

i ditched the bodies on my motorworks and im running ms celicas on them... the mitsu evo body kinda works, but the celica is the ticket... just mount it front tab first and use ms or zipzap tires on rear... my "better of the 2" motorworks has zipzap rims all the way around and looks super sweet with the celica

pimp master duece · Post by **pimp master duece** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:59 pm

bird i heard about your celica,, it has cookie monster comming out of the roof chill'n w/ some cookies!!

slammed rx7's are the shizzle

pimp master duece

pimp master deuce · Post by **pimp master deuce** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:02 am

pimp master duece wrote:bird i heard about your celica,, it has cookie monster comming out of the roof chill'n w/ some cookies!!

slammed rx7's are the shizzle

pimp master duece

'heard dat, duece... 7's IS da shizzle fo rizzle.

-deuce

hogjowlz · Post by **hogjowlz** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:17 am

why is this kid talking to himself?

pimp master deuce · Post by **pimp master deuce** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 11:47 am

hogjowlz wrote:why is this kid talking to himself?

That was me talkin' to duece... you're a funny guy, hogjowlz.

-deuce

sessiz · Post by **sessiz** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 4:37 pm

pimp master deuce wrote:
pimp master duece wrote:bird i heard about your celica,, it has cookie monster comming out of the roof chill'n w/ some cookies!!

slammed rx7's are the shizzle

pimp master duece

'heard dat, duece... 7's IS da shizzle fo rizzle.

-deuce

You gotta lay off that red crack.

pimp master deuce · Post by **pimp master deuce** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 5:50 pm

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...I'll take the red crack every time.

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