He said he wanted Green
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:37 am
Now who would I be painting a body for, that would insist on Green? 
I let you guys figure that out.
So here's the story. Its a Tamiya TG10 Raybrig NSX. I wanted to stick to a race theme, but wanted to work some flames in there, and make it crazydave-ish. When I saw the real car it was basically what I already planned, so I stuck with that, but you know, green. This was a tricky paint job to mask, because I haven't done many graphic that wrap all the way around, and because I was copying a real scheme, so it had to match, and line up right. I spent about 16 hours drawing, cutting and placing paint mask. I used some vinyl Parma masking film on the hood, because of all the texture from the vents, and on the flatter areas, I used Tamiya masking tape.
If you guys seen my post over in the paint forum you'll know I've been having issues with my airbrush. So after all that work, I was nervous to start painting. I put it off for a few days, then finally worked up the courage. I always practice on posterboard before I hit the body, and the black was laying pretty good. Not as good as I had it, but good enough for what I was gonna do. Then when I went to hit the body, it started pulling it stop/start stuttering shit again. I got black everywhere, and there was no pure white. I wiped some out, and thought it looked alot better, but when I laid the white I saw black speckles every where, the shading ended rather abrubtly in spots, and there was a a thumb smudge. I was so pissed. I wanted to throw my airbrush away, instead, I smacked some RCs around. After gathering myself, I trudged on, I went over my airbrush again, and discovered that amonia seems to disolve teflon tape, and my head assembly was leaking again. So I have to redo that after every color, until I get a hold of some beeswax ro seal it. I shaded in the blue on the graphics, and the airbrush was working wonderfully again. Almost made up for the other crap. Almost. Then when I laid the Pearl Key Lime, it just jumped out, and looked gorgeous beind the blue shading. Now I am satisfied, and so's SG.
So all said and done, I think it looks really good, and my problems were rather insigficant. I gotta get over this perfection thing. Its good to strive for, but it can't be the end all, life or death thing.
I let you guys figure that out.
So here's the story. Its a Tamiya TG10 Raybrig NSX. I wanted to stick to a race theme, but wanted to work some flames in there, and make it crazydave-ish. When I saw the real car it was basically what I already planned, so I stuck with that, but you know, green. This was a tricky paint job to mask, because I haven't done many graphic that wrap all the way around, and because I was copying a real scheme, so it had to match, and line up right. I spent about 16 hours drawing, cutting and placing paint mask. I used some vinyl Parma masking film on the hood, because of all the texture from the vents, and on the flatter areas, I used Tamiya masking tape.
If you guys seen my post over in the paint forum you'll know I've been having issues with my airbrush. So after all that work, I was nervous to start painting. I put it off for a few days, then finally worked up the courage. I always practice on posterboard before I hit the body, and the black was laying pretty good. Not as good as I had it, but good enough for what I was gonna do. Then when I went to hit the body, it started pulling it stop/start stuttering shit again. I got black everywhere, and there was no pure white. I wiped some out, and thought it looked alot better, but when I laid the white I saw black speckles every where, the shading ended rather abrubtly in spots, and there was a a thumb smudge. I was so pissed. I wanted to throw my airbrush away, instead, I smacked some RCs around. After gathering myself, I trudged on, I went over my airbrush again, and discovered that amonia seems to disolve teflon tape, and my head assembly was leaking again. So I have to redo that after every color, until I get a hold of some beeswax ro seal it. I shaded in the blue on the graphics, and the airbrush was working wonderfully again. Almost made up for the other crap. Almost. Then when I laid the Pearl Key Lime, it just jumped out, and looked gorgeous beind the blue shading. Now I am satisfied, and so's SG.
So all said and done, I think it looks really good, and my problems were rather insigficant. I gotta get over this perfection thing. Its good to strive for, but it can't be the end all, life or death thing.
, not much of a guessing game now is it?
