anyone know where i can find an interior to paint for my 1/10 oval body...i'm trying to do a concourse body..thanks

I am pretty sure Parma makes an interior. If I can-I'll get ya a part number!!! Hold on-I'll be back!!!

The Part # for the Interior is #10203 The guy is in the middle and you can trim it out for a right or left hand driver.
Tech

mark i'll call you tonight. i'm not sure he is still doing bodies. he had some up at k/n for awhile. he was the guy that did ken hills stuff. just don't mention my name.

Dang Charlie! that's sweet!

The Parma driver is super easy to work with, and you can use regular model paints on it too, gives it a more realistic finish. It's my favorite driver kit to use. The roll bars and decal set from the HPI BMW M3 interior kit work well with the Parma kit too.

Hi all, :D

Finished painting a HPI Saleen S7R last night, its by far the best bodyshell HPI have created, the fact that they've responded to customer demand and included Light Buckets is great, lets hope more will follow.

Paints used:
Parma - Silver, teal, green, blue, purple (all metalics).
Alclad II - Chrome.
Spaz Stix - Black & White.

Only masked off the bits that were eventually chrome and the chequed section (the chrome was done last).

Started by leaving the first section at the front clear, then faded Teal into Green and then into Blue and stopped at the rear window. I was going to leave the front & Back and do them Black & White, but the metalic fade came out so well i decided to carry it through. Added some Teal to silver and started at the front and moved up adding more Teal as it went up. then carried on from the rear adding a deeper blue and finally purple. Im gutted that theres not much purple on the the shell as its probably my favourite colour (very visable on the rear by eye, not on photo though)

http://www.spazstix.com/Gallery/hpi1.jpg
http://www.spazstix.com/Gallery/hpi2.jpg

And were going to take a break now, join us straight after a word from our sponsors! ;):D

And welcome back, you've missed all the really good action, you'll just have to put up with me instead! :D

http://www.spazstix.com/Gallery/hpi3.jpg
http://www.spazstix.com/Gallery/Saleen-edit.jpg

I'll post some in a few days when its complete, obviously the Light decal needs removing, but im gonna do that once the Light sets are ready (someone's making one for me as I chrome'd there light buckets in exchange :D) so this way it wont get finger prints etc all over it!!

PaulC2K

does anybody know where to get lime green paint.

Yes.

PaulC2K

See, now that was about as insightful as your question! ;)

If its Airbrush, Parma do a Florescent Green which is Lime Green.
Canned, no idea, dont know what you've got over there.

PC2K

Sorry about not asking the ? better. I want some lime green paint to airbrush on to RC bodies. I have the parma Flo Green, but that is to bright. I realy would like some lime green paint, in an old magazine ad pactra had a page in the RC Car Action mag that was advertizing there new water based paints, and in the ad the was a lime green car with paint drip paint design on it. I asked the local hobby shop if they could get lime green paint for rc cars, and they said no. They said I should mix my own to get what I want.

If some one knows how to mix any colors together to get this color, please let me know.

Thanks chico.

Well, if you've got Parma Flor Green, try a touch of Normal green to tone down the brightness. Ive not heard of a Range of watercolours from Pacrta mentioned before, but im in the UK, and we get didly-squat airbrushing stuff really, its very poor!
Like i say, give that a try, you never know. If that doesn't work, try some yellow maybe Flor yellow to get a lime colour.
I'd check myself but all my stuffs in the garage and its 4:30 in the morning!! :D

PaulC2K

Thanks for the help Paul. I will try what you said later, and see how it works.

Planet Honda-

If you have acess to pactra spray can colors, try the flourescent green backed with rally green. Or try rally green backed with sprint white. Rally green by it's self might do also.

Not too familiar with the pactra acrylics though. Not enough color in those little bottles for the volume of bodies we paint.

Planet Honda-

If you have acess to pactra spray can colors, try the flourescent green backed with rally green. Or try rally green backed with sprint white. Rally green by it's self might do also.

Not too familiar with the pactra acrylics though. Not enough color in those little bottles for the volume of bodies we paint.

The JS Bodies Banner has a truck that was painted with the flourescent green backed with rally green, but you can't see it very well.



Haunted Myst- where are you? lol...........

Hey JS :) Still busy as ever?

Yep.......still busy. Our new shop keeps us hoppin. I finally caught your article on window tinting, very nice!I never thought about using actual window tint!

Thanks! Yeah, it can be done. I just can't imagine anyone other then one of those very retentive detailers doing it though, its a nightmare. It's far easier to use the Pactra Acryl Transparent Smoke. It takes all of 2 minutes to get the nicest looking tint.

Bloomin ek
How'dya do that JSB?

You just ask for someone to appear, and kazam! there they are!! :D

Hello HM,
Is the artical in RCCA or RC Xtreme?
Cant get RCX over here, but RCCA finds its way over as does R/C Car.

PaulC2K

It is in Xtreme.

Tipical ;)
Is it on the site? or will it be?
Looks like i'll have to have words with the local Magazine shop!!
Im after the edition with the Spaz-Stix paint artical in it, see what was said etc.
I beleive it got a good review (shame about the smell though :D)

PC2K

Paul- neat trick, eh? lol................

HM- good to have ya around man! your input here is very welcome!


Guys, you should check out HM's work when ya get the chance, he slings paint with the best!

We all know HM!!
In fact, i remember I almost gave him a bit of advice about 9 months ago, about a brilliant Painting Tutorial i'd seen on a website a few weeks earlier. When i looked for the link, thank god i noticed who wrote the bloomin artical! what a wally i'd have been!

Yer, Its good to have you on here HM.

ahh what the heck, give it a try HM, it might help :D
http://www.balakracing.com/airbrushescompressors.htm

PC2K

lol................:D

lol Thanks JS but slings paint with the best? Ha! I have my lucid moments but only travel into your and charlies stratosphere by accident! The one I paint after that ends up looking like it should be stuck to the fridge with a magnet.

Paul, I don't know if the review will be on their site at all, but the intro of them is on http://www.rc411.com/index2.html at the bottom.

Yer, I caught that a week or so ago, couldnt see the full artical and figured it was because if everything wrote went onto the site, then nobody would buy the mag.

Thanks for the email, much appreciated.

PaulC2K
P.S. The site opened about 50min ago. Been aiming for a Sat 00:00 deadline for the past week, give or take a few min and it was on time :D

Hey Haunted.

Did you receive the SpazStix Black lights on Wednesday?

Yeah I got it! I haven't had time to paint up a body for it yet but I will this week! Thanks again!

I am interested to find out what you think of the Holographic paint (sw1080), And the black light paint when combined with the black light internal kits. Also interested to see if you think the smell has died down on the RadioActive Glow Paint series and what your thoughts are on those paints. :D

lol Yeah, the smell has died down! I opened them up to see first thing. The orange was the bad one last time and for the most part, its gone. As for the Hologram paint, I have this to say: IT FREAKING ROCKS! You were right, you have to do lots of coats, but its great. I never thought of combining it with the black light kit but I'll toss it on to an area and give it a shot.

Hey guys, been playing around with the holographic paint too. About how many coats are needed to achieve the effect? My first attempt was ok, but less than desirabpe for a holograhic paint. The orange definitely stinks lol..... HRP is one of my distributors, and I order from them almost every week, but I haven't seen the new blacklight kit yet. What's it consist of?

HM. I didn't state myself very clearly in the previous message. I don't think the Holographic paint will work with the internal black light kit.

JSB. The part numbers are UV004 4" Black Light Kit and UV012 12" Black Light Kit. Here is what you do. You paint up your r/c body using the Spz UV100 - UV160 Ultra Violent Black Light Paint and DO NOT use any backers. The more coats you put on the body, the darker your colors will be when they glow. This can be very effective to get lots of different effects. Then, You hook up your Black Light kit which consists of 1-4" or 1-12" black light, depending on which kit you purchase. 1-small circuit board that is required (it's the ballest for the flourescent black light and the 4" and 12" circuit boards are not interchangeable. And 1-connector which plugs into the circuit board and has the 2 connectors that you hook up 2-9volt batteries in order to power it. The farther away you place the black light from the inside of the body, the better glowing effect you will receive. On my Emaxx, I put the 12" down the center and more toward the back end to light up the entire body. Then I placed a 4" up front under the nose. It was great to be able to see the entire truck while playing on the street at 1am. You can see the body light up during the day somewhat, so you can imagine the glow you get at night even with the streetlights on. 2-9volts will run each kit for over 3 hours solid. And then it starts to die out.

As for the Holographic paint. Try this. Plan on 1/2 of a bottle to cover a T3 body. Using that guideline, you basically keep putting coats on until you have an almost non see threw look. Then I recomend backing it with black for the best results. I have found that if you test out on Bol 2729b (I think that is the number) You just cut little 1x1 squares out and paint each one differently until you find the results you are looking for. Indoors it will look boring and gray. When you take it into the sun, Psycadelic City. Then try backing it with all sorts of different colors. Results will vary, but the effects will still be there. I have found that if I spray down some of the Holographic paint and then put down some change color paint (like sw1000 or sw1050) I still get the change color effects and the holographic effects on top of it. It is all in finding the right combinations of coats for your own techniques.

Have you tried the RadioActive Glow paints? What do you think of those? Especially compaired to the Xtreme Glow paints?

Spaz- haven't tried the radio active colors yet, they were all out of stock last time I ordered. I'll make sure and grab some on my next order. Randy used to let me know when something new came out( even before it was e-mailed to everyone on the new item list), but he went over to Racer's Edge and Mike ( my new rep )never calls me about anything, lol......

Dont be so humble Myst, I have seen some of your stuff and it is awesome. You fully deserve being in with JS and Paul.

James

JSB. The RadioActive Glow paints definiately kit some butt over the others. However, if you are into glow-in-the-dark ghosting effects, It might be a good idea to use both types. While most of the Xtreme Glow paints end up white as the final color, only 3 will have that same effect in the RadioActive Glow paints.
XG6001 BLUE/GREEN (CLEAR)
XG7001 PURPLE (CLEAR)
XG7251 ORANGE (CLEAR)

The rest of the RadioActive Series you spray until you get that color as dark as you would like it to show during the day time. (As always, the more coats you apply, the better the glow will be). While the Purple in the Xtreme Glow is very hard to see unless in total darkness, the Purple in the RadioActive can easily be seen when running under normal street conditions with the street lights on.

And of coure you should back all glow in the dark paints with the Spz XG2000 backer for the best results to enhance your glow paint.

I know Mike. I hate to hear that communication has dropped between you and HRP. I don't want to interfer. Unless you think it would be for the best. I can mention it to him, or to his sales manager Scott. Or, I can send you updates myself if you prefer. I don't want to cause trouble without permission.

Also a question. Are you set up to receive their emails of new products? I also believe they have a fax system to inform customers of new products once a week.

Just a little side note: On this Tuesday, Sept. 3rd, Spaz Stix paints will release it's newest product. CH5000 - Mirror Chrome.
Tips for application: Spray at 15psi. Spray lite, even coats, Should only take 3 coats, but it all depends on your style. Recommend adjusting spray until it only takes you 3 light coats in order to get a brilliant mirror reflection. You can either leave it that way, or if you need more protection, back it with water based black.

Anakist:
Good to have you back, wondered where you'd got too!
I love the comment about HM deserving to be in the same catagory as JSB & Me! I think HM is ooh, about 10 times better than me!!
Like a ton of other people, I picked up loads from HM, and his tutorial has COST ME A RUDDY FORTUNE!!! :D But im glad!

Jesse:
Ive uploaded the Liq. Metal page and i'll link the logo upto the page on the day.

PaulC2K

Paul: Great job man. You are on top of everything! Gotta go finish making your paints. :wave:

MH- what Anakist said.........

Spaz- no big deal, Randy was just an outgoing kinda guy. I'm in good standing with HRP though, and order a lot of stock from them. I do get the updates every week (I guess I just missed it) and it's great that your coming out with your own chrome paint! Will it be as easy to work with as the Alclad paint?

Should be. I will be very interested in your opinions if you do try it. I have found the best result for my own spraying techniques are: spray at 15psi. and spray like you would any other paint. It should take 3 coats to get a highly effective mirror finish. I have seen results vary due to spraying pressure and # of coats. But the 15psi and 3 coats are a good place to start. I need feedback in order to improve the formula if it does not work just as good as Alclad's or better. I want to keep working on the formula by getting feedback, until we can aquire near perfect results for most everyone out there who paints (basically I want to see it be dummy proof so it is a no fail great results everytime paint).

Paul: Maybe it should be and vice versa as well. You, JS and HM are all in the same league. You are creative, skilful, intelligent and care about what you do. It really shows in your work. I saw the tutorial from HM on balakracing.com and it really helped me. I read that before I did my Lexus shell.

Spaz: I wish I could help you. I am a dummy when it comes to painting, but I live in Australia. Are there any plans to export it? I might have to order some to do a demo body to show off locally.

James

Spaz- will try it out as soon as I get my hands on some. Thanks!

Anakist: We can always ship it going usps if you are interested. Just let me know. It would be great to get the product over there.:D

Originally posted by Spaz
Just a little side note: On this Tuesday, Sept. 3rd, Spaz Stix paints will release it's newest product. CH5000 - Mirror Chrome.
Tips for application: Spray at 15psi. Spray lite, even coats, Should only take 3 coats, but it all depends on your style. Recommend adjusting spray until it only takes you 3 light coats in order to get a brilliant mirror reflection. You can either leave it that way, or if you need more protection, back it with water based black.

No more silly little Alclad bottles for chrome? Thank goodness! Ship it in the same bottles as your using and I'll never touch the A stuff again!

HM: Thanks for the boost man! You hit it on the head. It will be in the same bottles that the rest of the Spaz Stix paints are packaged in.:thumbsup:

sweet.................. same bottles!

How much is it Spaz. I will have to look at getting some.

James

hey guys where can you get the spaz stix paint, i just painted a body yesterday with the aclad chrome and it turn out pretty nice.
thanks
Don ;)

ok, could have SWORE i pressed submit just a few minutes ago!

Anyway...

Anakist (and now Bigdon18 too)
You can purchase Spaz Stix paints from your LHS but if they dont stock the stuff, then appart from them being daft ;) you can buy it online at a wonderful and beautiful (spot the shameless pluging!) www.spazstix.com. Thats the official Shop site, and you can buy all the current paints via that site.
Hope you both like the site, if you dont, LIE! ;):D

has anyone here seen my Saleen S7R shell yet? The one 3 pages back? Im pretty sure the mighty HM has seen it via HPI's site.
Gonna be starting a Viper in the same style this week different colours i'd imagine for most parts anyway.

Jesse: Just went to see the site, noticed i wasn't getting the updated products page, your stupid website designer made the first letter a capital so it stayed with the old version thanks to the wonders of technology. Its up now anyway, just 17 hours into Tues.
Doing the Gallery at the moment, (sneek peak - on the current Gallery page, top row at the end of the fade.)

PaulC2K

Thanks Paul for covering for me. Logging on a little late here. Busy night. :(

HM and JSB: What do you guys think of this:

http://www.airbrushcustoms.com/How-to.html

Also here is a picture of the Ultra Violent Paint on a Tmaxx body:

Body #41 UV150 on the very front. Flames are outlined with UV110 Lemon/Lime (bright yellow during the day, Bright Green when glowing) and turned greenish when backed with UV150 (Electric Blue). UV160 (RedruM) for main body and faded into UV120(Fireball Orange) on back end. Backing the uv150 with uv160 created a purple hi-lite. Have a UV004 4" black light in front of truck and a UV012 down the middle to end of truck to illuminate it. When securing these black lights into your vehicle, be sure not to put too much pressure on the tubes. After all, they are glass (And have to be glass to give off the fluorescent light). Currently working on an improved version. Not close to final stages however.

Paul: I forgot to mention the outstanding job you are doing on the gallery. I like the format. I went through all of the bodies on the site and sent you an email with all of the paints that were used to create them.:wave: