Custom painted Exo-T Chassis

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:35 pm

After a year of off and on use, I fanally broke one of the ears off the upper deck of my Exo-T chassis. I had a scrap piece of Lexan from a body I had done recently, and used that, even though it wasn't perfectly flat. I had hoped it would flatten out when all together, and it pretty much did. While I was at it it, I decided to give the whole chassis a make over.

It's all covered with stuff, so it doesn't look too exciting from the top.

... but flip it over, and it blings.

In case that last picture hurt your head.

ibjamn · Post by **ibjamn** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:04 pm

I'm a big fan of "using what's available"

Although, I could have sent ya some higher quality speaker wire, all you had to do is ask.

Not bustin your balls or anything like that, I have an old Novak Explorer II with some 12 awg speaker wire soldered to it.

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:39 pm

Great job Dave. I know I don't get to comment on all your work as of lately, but I still look everyday. Killer shit man.

Is it clear coated?

silla

tyhodge07 · Post by **tyhodge07** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:15 am

looks pretty cool.. what type of paint did you use, if i remember correctly the exo-t chassis is lexan, so the shine is pretty nice looking.

Clint · Post by **Clint** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:27 am

Nice! CD's still kickin ass and taking names.

very cleanly done micro-t.

as you jump over other micro-t's.. they can look up and see the ownage that has been bestowed upon them.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:52 am

ibjamn wrote:I'm a big fan of "using what's available"

Although, I could have sent ya some higher quality speaker wire, all you had to do is ask.
Not bustin your balls or anything like that, I have an old Novak Explorer II with some 12 awg speaker wire soldered to it.

You mean the $5 MIC stuff from Pep Boys ain't the "good" stuff?

I was just tired of breaking wires off... this seems solid.

Payaso wrote:Is it clear coated?

It's Lexan painted from the top. The top almost looked cooler, because it looked like the flames were etched into metal. I was tempted to use that, but would have worn right off.

tyhodge04 wrote:what type of paint did you use,

I used Spaz Stix. This stuff is awesome, I'm buying their whole line of airbrush paints in a couple weeks.

Clint wrote:as you jump over other micro-t's.. they can look up and see the ownage that has been bestowed upon them.

I was thinking I'd have the flashiest wrecks, but I like yours better.

I realized after the fact that after all the work I did making a backwards "Crazydave" logo, the backwards Losi logo on the body makes the whole picture look like I mirrored it in PS. So to further confuse things, here's a shot with the other side of the body.

tyhodge07 · Post by **tyhodge07** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 12:45 pm

i figured thats what it was, ive heard the chrome spaz shines really well.. and with the reflection i can tell

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:47 pm

Crazy man... I thought it was an alluminum chassis

I'm guessing you used the spaz stix chrome? The alcladII chrome is really nice too. Looks like a mirror..

silla

tyhodge07 · Post by **tyhodge07** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:20 pm

payaso wrote:Crazy man... I thought it was an alluminum chassis

I'm guessing you used the spaz stix chrome? The alcladII chrome is really nice too. Looks like a mirror..

silla

crazydave wrote:
tyhodge04 wrote:what type of paint did you use,
I used Spaz Stix. This stuff is awesome, I'm buying their whole line of airbrush paints in a couple weeks.

Critters · Post by **Critters** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 7:46 pm

dang...that makes me want to make one

that is nice dude. I thought that was metal with lexen over it to keep from scratches.

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:13 pm

tyhodge07 wrote:
payaso wrote:Crazy man... I thought it was an alluminum chassis

I'm guessing you used the spaz stix chrome? The alcladII chrome is really nice too. Looks like a mirror..

silla

crazydave wrote:
tyhodge04 wrote:what type of paint did you use,
I used Spaz Stix. This stuff is awesome, I'm buying their whole line of airbrush paints in a couple weeks.

I thought he was refering to just the blue flames.

silla

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:14 pm

payaso wrote:I thought he was refering to just the blue flames.

Those are actually Createx T-Shirt paint.

They actually bond better than the Parma paints, but the transparent colors are kind of cloudy. That's why I want to get the Spaz Stix clear colors. They should be really transparent to let the chrome show through.