King Blackfoot Wheels
Having seen the awesome Monster Beetle belonging to cardesigner, I've been gathering together parts to give my Bug an update with some new wheels and new bodyset. Since the weather is still pretty cold I'm going to wait until it warms up to do the painting. However, whilst rummaging in my LHS last weekend I came across a complete set of King Blackfoot Wheels - just the thing for my new set of tyres to go on. However, I didn't really like the red plastic finish so I picked up a can of chrome spray paint too since I can't seem to find any chrome versions of the wheels I thought I'd do it myself. All was going well until I applied the varnish which really took the shine off the chrome. They actually look quite good in the flesh, very similar to real car alloys. Now I just have to wait for the Frog adapters to fit them to the Bug.
In primer
Chrome paint applied
The end result - not quite what I had in mind
Comments
Dante77
Thats what I experienced, too. If you you leave em just painted, the chrome rubs off. If you laquer them, the chrome effect disappears. But they look good anyway!
Goat_Boy
I'm glad it's not just me! I couldn't understand it - the varnish was the same manufacturer as the paint and has been fine on everything else I've used it on. The colour is growing on me, and they look so much better than the red ones.
Badboy
I would go for glossy black as base, then chrome!
Go for it!!!
mighty peesh
Tizer
Oamurai (Capsule21's site, some might know it) had a great tutorial on it for painting chrome, but the site doesn't work right now. He used gloss black and laquer as base, and the chrome was the topcoat. Came out very good!
No Slack
Indeed use gloss black as base. There are now paints from Alclad for this kind of job. Many (bare) metal colours are available and you can polish these Alclad paints to high gloss. This technique is very often used on static kits.
Goat_Boy
Thanks for all the help and suggestions. I did look at some of the 'metalcote' paints originally, but wasn't sure how durable they would be. I'll certainly try the gloss black base next time. I've got so used to work with polycarbonate bodies it's kind of weird going back to hard plastic again.
mad maz
nice job dude
Blitzz
I'll take them! LOL No really...would love another set
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