Paint jobs
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I am a terrible painter as well. I have decals printed so that I can slap it on when the car is finished and it looks much better and cleaner.
Vinyl covering just on the top of the car with a pinstripe or vinyl lettering.
http://www.cmiquickcopy.com/exec/eHome.asp
try this place. They will make you a custom graphic for your car
try this place. They will make you a custom graphic for your car
I make my own custom graphics for my cars... I actually followed 5 Kids idea by printing onto a mailing label... Sides and fenders are done with Sharpies (Idea I got from Kinser).
With the way my cars ran last race, I don't have time enough to try to use paint.
With the way my cars ran last race, I don't have time enough to try to use paint.
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To get a great paint job from a rattle can added so much weight to the car I just started using a sharpie. I probably wasn't the first but it just kind of became my thing. I loved the look of some of the fine looking painted cars when I first started and it was just to heavy for me. I took a midpack painted car, stripped the paint amongst changing some things and it set the track record and won me my first MOTM. Now you have the best of both worlds with vinyl or Monokote. Don't paint! Lol
I'm great at painting, but I don't because of the weight thing. Kinser told me that story last winter and when Grandmaster Kinser speaks, we listen.
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Cramjet said:
I really hope you're just being flattering. I don't pretend to know everything about these little cars. A lot? Maybe! Definitely not everything.
I tried painting the balsa fenders and using Monokote to wrap the body on my last few cars. Painting can be a PITA but I like the way it looks.
The frustrating thing for me about painting is the dry time. Inevitably I'll touch the before it's dry and leave finger prints behind. So... for me, vinyl works great! You can stop by the local sign shop and ask for their vinyl scraps, typically the pieces that get thrown out are plenty large enough to cover the typical pinewood derby car and then some.
Nice catch Kinser, you would be right. I only paint the fenders. The main body I cover with vinyl.
GX - Try using Duplicolor lacquer paints. They dry very quickly and don't add as much weight as the Enamel paints. Another benefit is that the lacquer paints dry much harder than the enamel paints.
GX - Try using Duplicolor lacquer paints. They dry very quickly and don't add as much weight as the Enamel paints. Another benefit is that the lacquer paints dry much harder than the enamel paints.
Kinser Racing said:
I'm curious. How rigid are the bodies you guys are building? Ours were routered and sanded hackjobs that had some twist until we covered them. We've been printing a Google image onto photopaper and thinly epoxying it onto the top and fenders. It looks cool and makes the body very rigid.
If we had cut better bodies maybe we could've been rigid without the covering.
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They still have "enough" rigidity for my liking. I'll check them during shaping. "Enough" is a feel that's impossible to describe. I prefer 8-9 grams.
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