One night stand
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2004 12:10 pm
I usually paint with enamels, which take days to dry. Sometimes I get a little jealous of people using laquer that can bang out a ride quickly, as I sit idly waiting for paint to dry.
The only laquer-based paint I have is this stuff called Metallizer, made by Model Master (Testor's). It's meant for making realistic metal surfaces on larger scale models. You spray it on with an airbrush, and 10 minutes later you buff it with a soft cloth and it looks like polished metal. It comes in different colors like steel, titanium, gun metal, aluminum, burnt metal (like by a jet exhaust), etc.
As it turns out, it looks a lot like nice bit-scale metallic paint. So I mixed up a blend of titanium, burnt metal and aluminum plate to make a color quite similar to the Porsche factory dark grey metallic.
So with the exception of the flat black details on top of the clearcoat, I did this car in one night. I probably could have done a better job sanding out some of the mold lines, but this was a quickie so I had to move fast. I did do a really good job masking the Porsche logo on the hood, though.
Tab-lowered as low as it will go in front, slot-lowered in the back, highly covetable Nakamichi wheels fitted with teal gears, spring suspension. Ditched the ugly wing and filled the holes.
The only laquer-based paint I have is this stuff called Metallizer, made by Model Master (Testor's). It's meant for making realistic metal surfaces on larger scale models. You spray it on with an airbrush, and 10 minutes later you buff it with a soft cloth and it looks like polished metal. It comes in different colors like steel, titanium, gun metal, aluminum, burnt metal (like by a jet exhaust), etc.
As it turns out, it looks a lot like nice bit-scale metallic paint. So I mixed up a blend of titanium, burnt metal and aluminum plate to make a color quite similar to the Porsche factory dark grey metallic.
So with the exception of the flat black details on top of the clearcoat, I did this car in one night. I probably could have done a better job sanding out some of the mold lines, but this was a quickie so I had to move fast. I did do a really good job masking the Porsche logo on the hood, though.
Tab-lowered as low as it will go in front, slot-lowered in the back, highly covetable Nakamichi wheels fitted with teal gears, spring suspension. Ditched the ugly wing and filled the holes.
holy shit thats hot , nice work dude .
