Building a No Prep Drag Car (Part 6): Painting the Body
In this episode, I take you through the process I use when I am painting RC car bodies. Blue Thunder turns out OK in the end. It could be cleaner but all in all it looks pretty darn good from 3 feet away. LOL!
CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Build Recap
00:51 - Episode Overview
01:34 - Painting Process
02:01 - Step 1: Washing The Body
02:28 - Step 2: Window Masks
05:06 - Step 3: Liquid Mask
06:52 - Step 4: Sketching The Design
08:17 - Step 5a: Painting Lamé Flake (Color 1)
11:29 - Step 5B: Painting Black (Color 2)
12:21 - Step 5C: Painting Metallic Blue (Color 3)
13:16 - Step 6: Backing the paint with Silver and White
14:43 - Paint Process Recap
15:16 - First Look
16:20 - THE PEEL
17:20 - Applying Stickers
18:54 - THE REVEAL
19:25 - Episode Recap
19:46 - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE
20:03- Outro
In the next episode I am going to try and get this thing out on the asphalt – so make sure to subscribe so you don't miss it.
As always, the full car is based off the Slash platform but there are barely any original parts in the build as I am trying to assemble it as much from scratch as possible without using an existing Traxxas Slash as a sacrifice vehicle. Which turns out is much, much harder than I anticipated.
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