Future...gotta love it!
1976Cordoba said:
OK I'm the weird one -- I dip a Testors paint brush in Future and just paint it on by hand. I usually only do two coats.
Doba,
I use a brush some times also. This Mullet beer truck was brushed with future. It started out as being painted Zinc Chromate Green (which is flat) and put the decals on first...then Futured it. The yellow tape is the thin sticky back Pactra kind (comes on a roll in different widths) and it sealed this in very nicely also.
I dipped this Hooters truck two times in Future but, that was in the summer in my garage were a mess doesn't matter much. Not that Future is messy but, shake....shake...shake can get Future on things. Probably I am just messy....har
Oooooh and be careful about shaking off excess Future on bodies with lots of decals. Make sure you give the decals some time to dry on well first. I got in a hurry once and shook kinda hard and the decals started to move out of place. I just moved them back into place with a toothpick. Luckily I noticed this.
Was running out the door to go some place with the Wife and kids. Ginger wasn't to happy about the extra time it was taking to fix my Ooooops.
Will have to go and take some pics of my red Sand Van I just Futured. Going to add some decals to it and then Future again. It is cold here in Nebraska now and if it hits 40 deg. I spray flat paint to avoid any drips or paint build up. You can not tell that this was painted in flat red. I did have to work it a little by going around a couple of times with the brush to get it to cover all the areas because, the flat likes to repel the Future a bit. Painted bodies good, no painted bodies bad.
First I strip the bodies of all the existing paint with a Pine Sol soak for several days and then bring out the ELO (Easy Lift Off) from the hobby stores sold in cans like large Testors air brush thinner to really get bodies stripped of all paint in the door cracks and such with the aid of toothpicks and toothbrushes. I like to keep the original detail by stripping off all the paint.
Yes Future is self leveling as others have said and I use it on almost every car I do with only positive results to date.
Have learned from the many post here about Future and others know more about it than me for sure. It works!
Will have to post my Red Sand Van when it is done. You would never know it was painted flat red originally.
I did use Testors High Gloss clear coat through my air brush on the HOHT Roadsters and that worked fine. It was kinda cold so, because of the clear coat messing up paint on 2 of them. I did have to repaint 2 of them all over again. Oooooooooh man that was not fun as I was under the gun but, it all worked out thank fully. Wheeeew!
Will use regular clear coat again this summer on some cars as that is nice also but, always need to worry about crinkling the decals this way. A light first coat is important to keep the decals from crinkling...aaaaaaaaaaaaah. Walk away and come back later after you get the first light coat on.
Bob...zilla