CraigMBA

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I would use Fasyellow and paint the stripes with Faspearl Silver, and after it dried for a couple of days in a hot car, I'd back it with rustolium gray.

Flying Monkey

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Do what? lol

CraigMBA

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The Fascolor paint is water based. You gotta get it totally dry before you spray Rustolium on it, if you don't the Rustolium will attack it.

Even on a 70 degree day, with the windows rolled up, a car gets to 100 real quick and helps drying.

Flying Monkey

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lol yes i know its water based as with createx. But Ive never heard of anyone using that method. I havent painted as long as alot of the guys but Dont see needing that. You just need to let it completely dry in normal room temperatures. I use krylon crystal clear to seal all my paint jobs which is similar to what your talking about doing but never seen anyone use it for color.

CraigMBA

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The heat just speeds it up. In the summer, I just leave stuff in my garage. If its 100 outside, its 120+ in my garage! Auto body shops force dry stuff all the time.

You can change the color slightly with the backer. I use a solid color to seal it up and 'cheat' my way out of using the backer color.

Misiek

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Thank you, will give it a try!

R40Victim

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Got mine ready. I wanted to keep it simple, then my paint guy used my name in stead of "Boss". I did the numbers in vinyl. I must've searched through a thousand pics looking for a classic number style I like.

Jay Boyd

Brad, that Mustang looks sweet! Is it the new McAllister one?
Do you know what red that is? I'm looking for a Ducati red for a MotoGP themed VTA & that looks pretty close. Thanks, Jay.

R40Victim

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I'm actually not sure. It was bought and painted for me. Its over a year old. He uses an air brush so that red could be anything. I'll ask him and see what I can find out for you. Thank you for the complements!

R40Victim

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We think it's a Pegasus. The red is Parma fasred (non florescent, the straight red). Sorry I couldn't be more help. We actually tried to get into VTA over a year ago. The local on road scene has been dead for about six years. So that body actually just sat for about a year. Recently, one of the LHS brought back their on road program, and that's why I twisted his arm to go ahead and paint it.

snoopyrc

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Looks like Pegasus to me. I like it plain red with just the white stripes. Somtimes I think we ruin stuff with over complexity.

R40Victim

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I wanted it to resemble the car it was modeled after. Most of the pics I've seen of actual cars, were pretty simple. I like that; as if some guy took the car he drove daily, applied some racing numbers and went racing.

Meradin

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Good year lettering - HOW?

i searching this thread and what I got was that some bodies had the lettering in there, are these really a sticker?

I asked a selled how he did his and he said he hand painted them. I haven't thie skills and I don't believe that a sticker would stay on too well.

So, how are people doing this?

dodgeboy

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most I have seen are stickers . I have tried and have been able to do a few small goodyear logos in vinyl mask but there hard to get in the right scale size to be able to weed them out.

Flying Monkey

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I havent done "Goodyear" but did the "ALAN GREEN CHEVROLET" on my camaro front fenders by hand cutting out of liquid mask. Was a PITA for sure cutting that small but it adds alot of style I think over having stickers. Only stickers I try to use is the "Go fast" equipment stickers