What’s the most difficult body that you have painted

[Re-Bugged 10160]

6 hours ago, jonboy1 said:

show off 😋

 

 

 

No idea what your talking about @jonboy1 ? 😏

[Re-Bugged 10160]

whoops DP 🤣😂

[kwrek 73]

For me it was restoring a vintage Tamiya Blackfoot Body.

Removed stickers

Sanded out most scratches and gouges.

Removed all trim.

Keyed up body

Applied multiple coats of primer

Wet Sanded

Applied 5 or 6 coats of Tamiya Semi Gloss Black.

Painted badging and body trim with a combo of fine brushes and Paint pens

Painted Tailgate and tail lights

Repaired Broken Grill and rear window.

Painted grill and light buckets with a Black Paint

Painted Ramblin Ron

Applied MCI decals 

[jonboy1 2943]

8 hours ago, Re-Bugged said:

No idea what your talking about @jonboy1 ? 😏

sorry, my mistake, typo, I meant to send that to @Re-Bighead 

stunning work mate, I'd forgotten about the Escort 

[TurnipJF 9192]

I have done a few shells with tricky decals and/or trimming, but the paintjobs I choose are generally quite easy. My most ambitious one is probably this:

Metallic blue to metallic green fade on the main body, metallic purple tonneau cover with daisy motif, painted window frames and smoked windows - the only decals are the lights, grille and the trim pierce in front of the windscreen. 

[TurnipJF 9192]

The one that took me the most time and effort though would probably be this:

I made it far more difficult for myself than it needed to be. I wanted to fill the unnecessary holes mounted into the body, I wanted to avoid using any filler, primer or lacquer so as to make repairs easier to make disappear, and I wanted a high-gloss finish. I thus spent ages plastic welding the holes, then carefully sanding and shaping the welded areas to match the contours of the shell, then painting the whole thing in direct-to-plastic black paint, waiting weeks for it to fully harden, then painstakingly wet sanding and polishing it to a glossy finish while preserving the moulding detail.  

It turned out well in my opinion - so well that I am reluctant to run it - so I painted and decalled a cheap polycarbonate shell for running duties, and I am keeping the hard body for shelf display. This is the Kamtec runner shell, which I finished in a single afternoon:

From anything more than a few feet away, there is very little difference between the two! 🙄

[Nicadraus 6201]

Mine would be this Pajero metal-top. It was my dad's. The I picked it up back in 2018 at the storage of my folks' house and resurrected it.

I sanded the body down, covered some holes, created holes for the tail light, re-painted (two tone) with automotive urethane paint (self mix) finished in metallic teal color (requested by my daughter) and top coated with super gloss. wet sanded and 3-step buffing. A lot of masking too for the fender, window trims, tail light trim, grill. Wet sanded the windows and buffed.

Filled the antenna hole with putty. I also had to put a cover under first

After sanding, hole filled.

Tail lights...

created holes for actual lights...

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[Nicadraus 6201]

Cont...

 Masked the inner windows

Masked everything else that should not be painted.

Mixed the paint, catalyst and thinner. Color is silver with drops of yellow.

Painting...

After curing the flares overnight, I masked the signal and tail lights for silver

Then sprayed...

Removed the masking once dried

Hand painted the clear orange and clear red lights

Cleaned and buffed the windows. The stains couldn't be removed with just soap so I had to rub it down with buffing compound and a buffing machine.

Before:

After

Sprayed 5 layers of clear gloss top coat.

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[Nicadraus 6201]

Cont...

Wet sanded...

 Buffed...

Seen here are the metallic flakes...

Prepped for masking (again)...

Painted all the parts that should be in matte black

Mask off...

Finishing touches...

Tri-diamond emblem painted and some panel lines.

Fabricated the lens for the tail lights. Made some grid lines, repainted to clear red and added frosting too

Finished body and lights installed too...

 

 

[Xeostar 815]

19 hours ago, Howards said:

I did one of these with stickers, and I thought at the time that doing it in paint would be an order of magnitude easier as the stickers are absolutely swines to line up and convince to stay down. 

Yes 100% agree, I did my first one with stickers. I was never happy with the alignment and thought I'd do it again with paint.

[SupraChrgd82 1425]

Not necessarily difficult, but these were the most time-consuming

 

[Pablo68 1049]

A Sand Scorcher body. It's so difficult I haven't actually tried to do it yet.

I'm not joking, it's been waiting for several years now.

[Kol__ 3377]

On 5/10/2022 at 11:42 PM, Re-Bugged said:

whoops DP 🤣😂

That's what she said

[Pylon80 2639]

On 5/11/2022 at 7:29 AM, Nicadraus said:

Cont...

Wet sanded...

 Buffed...

Seen here are the metallic flakes...

Prepped for masking (again)...

Painted all the parts that should be in matte black

Mask off...

Finishing touches...

Tri-diamond emblem painted and some panel lines.

Fabricated the lens for the tail lights. Made some grid lines, repainted to clear red and added frosting too

Finished body and lights installed too...

 

 

Very nice. What kind of mate black paint is this? 

[mongoose1983 3335]

Original boxart Sand Scorcher and the 1985 Bruiser (the one with the solid one-piece rear half). I recall the experience to be as nervewracking as satisfying in the end.

[lupogtiboy 454]

One I've shied away from, and probably will for some time is the re-re Mk1 Golf. TBH, I haven't got a clue where to start with it, the Kamei livery looks a total PITA to do! 

Sticker wise, the Lancia Delta Integrale was a pain to do, as was the 306 Maxi, lots of stickers, and if, like me, you don't put them on in number-order, then you realise your mistake when they don't line up correctly......IDIOT! 

[Nilsken 18]

A interesting paint job...

[Nilsken 18]

Something about Jimny's

[Nilsken 18]

Not the most difficult paint job, but the most difficult build...

 

[Nicadraus 6201]

14 hours ago, Pylon80 said:

Very nice. What kind of mate black paint is this? 

Automotive urethane matte black.