Need Help To Make A Runner

[qatmix]

Ive just managed to melt a GH2 bodyshell. Im gutted I managed to stip it and fix a crack, then i cleaned it up and sprayed primer on the shell, looking good so far. then I sprayed some car pain on it and it just went wild with some sort of chemical reaction, started bubbling I tried to get the paint of quickly chucked on some paint stripper and that was the beginnign of the end. the shell is knackered!

Im fixing this up for my nephew and the rest of the car is looking fine. I just need some wheels and now I need a shell.

Anyone have any idea what sort of wheels the grasshopper 2 takes? And does anyone know of any other compatible bodyshells? Cheaper the better

Thanks

[markbt73]

I think the Super Hornet used the same chassis, so the body should fit also. Or you could get a lexan VW bug shell or something.

The wheels for both are Wild One/Fox style. GH2 were white, and Super Hornet were orange(?). Falcon/Striker rims are also a direct fit, I believe. But almost any 2wd wheels will fit if you get the right adapters for the rear.

[kontemax]

Why people use car paint????????????????????

There are Tamiya colors that are fantastics to use without problems with a lot of choose options.

Car colors are based on Nitro thinner and nitro thinner is highly aggressive with plastic and other colours based on different softer thinners. This is the reason you destroyed your GH2 body.

Cheers

Max

[KEV THE REV]

Why people use car paint????????????????????

There are Tamiya colors that are fantastics to use without problems with a lot of choose options.

Car colors are based on Nitro thinner and nitro thinner is highly aggressive with plastic and other colours based on different softer thinners. This is the reason you destroyed your GH2 body.

Cheers

Max

Ive used car paints a lot on my hard bodies (as have many people on here) with no problems . There could be many reasons why your paint reacted the way it did.For example, it was either incompatible with the primer (very rare), or the primer was not clean enough before the finish coat went on , or the paint was applied too heavily .The paint could be removed with brake fluid , and then start again

[qatmix]

Indeed, Ive use car paints alot on hard shells for the mardave banger I have. I will use Tamiya paints on lexan though. Unfortuantly this was a different make to the usual ones I use such as holts etc (auto chemical or something). Its jsut a bubbly mess now I tried stripping it but it seems that the plastic itiself has broken down

Needless to say the paint has gone in the bin, along with the shell

[fatboyslim]

Indeed, Ive use car paints alot on hard shells for the mardave banger I have. I will use Tamiya paints on lexan though. Unfortuantly this was a different make to the usual ones I use such as holts etc (auto chemical or something). Its jsut a bubbly mess now I tried stripping it but it seems that the plastic itiself has broken down

Needless to say the paint has gone in the bin, along with the shell

I use car paint as well, I just make sure it's ACRYLIC

[kontemax]

There are a lot of paints. There are water based (nothing to say about), there are Acrylic that are alcool based, there are syntetic thinner based and nitro thinner based.

Syntetic paints dry very slowly and remain softer and flixible. They are easier to use with the compressor and the airbrush gun because these paints have the time to flat on the surface cause their slow dry time. But if you have not a filtered ventilated owen probably every powder, every mosquito and so on will remain forever on your car. Syntetic paints are subjected to bubble or similar events if enter in contact with nitro thinner.

Nitro thinner paints dry so fast that probably arrive on the surface dried if your airbrush pistol is not correctly setted. This will mean that easly you will have an orange peel effect on your car. Nitro thinner paints will not be affected by syntetic thinner but are easly removed by unleaded fuel and nitro thinner. They will remain xtremelly hard and will not flex or bend but will broke.

There's another kind of car paint, the best one the expensive one (80 euros for 1 Kilogram, or more!). It's the dual components paint. You have the paint and the catalyst (catalizator?) also know like hardener. The paint will be thinned with nitro and will not dry without the hardener. The time of drying will depend how much hardener you put in the paint. If some paint remains (with hardener inside) will be trown away. Very difficoult to use. But there's no thinner that can attack it. There are other additives to keep the paint soft and dry (painting on rubber), to turn the paint heatproof (for exausts and brake calipers) or to make it grip on the plastic. The paint will be hard but will flex a lot more that the nitro one. Only acid (like brake oil or de-paiters) can attack it.

The car paint you find in the spraycans easly is nitro thinned, sometimes acrylic.

I highly don't reccomand to use nitro thinner paints on abs cause the nitro is higly aggressive on plastic too. I use this thinner to clean the nylog gears when filled with gray/black alloy ans grease paste. But never use it to clean the gearbox. It will quickly turn white and will become "soft".

I suggest to use Tamiya paints for ABS. They are acrylic and they are the best ones.

Cheers

Max