Good Yellow for Fire Engine?

Tamiya's Lemon Yellow

Mission Models Equipment Yellow

Vallejo Safety Yellow

Make sure to use Grey primer. Yellow doesn't like Black primer...... or any other color for that matter.

Thanks for info guys, greatly appreciated.

littletimmy

Make sure to use Grey primer. Yellow doesn't like Black primer...... or any other color for that matter.

 

White primer works better for yellow. Or even silver......

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

White primer works better for yellow. Or even silver......

I would have said the same thing, but Jrock83 said the model was molded in red. 

I have had bad luck trying to primer red plastic with white..... tend's to take multiple coat's to cover it and then you lose detail.

Silver would cover up the red..... but then the  first coat or two of Yellow would be kinda lighter than you want.

littletimmy

 

 

BlackSheepTwoOneFour

White primer works better for yellow. Or even silver......

 

 

I would have said the same thing, but Jrock83 said the model was molded in red. 

I have had bad luck trying to primer red plastic with white..... tend's to take multiple coat's to cover it and then you lose detail.

Silver would cover up the red..... but then the  first coat or two of Yellow would be kinda lighter than you want.

 

Personally...I'd go with a combo.

Grey to cover the red real good...then white as the base for the yellow.

Yellow goes down way better over white (as do red, orange, blue)...but white isn't all that great at covering something like red.

The problem I have with silver paint as an undercoat is that I find adhesion poor for virtually any other color over it.  If you can find a real silver primer, that would be fine- indeed the silver does block any color underneath, but the several times I have had adhesion problems over silver or aluminum makes me shy away from it.

fermis

Personally...I'd go with a combo. Grey to cover the red real good...then white as the base for the yellow. Yellow goes down way better over white (as do red, orange, blue)...but white isn't all that great at covering something like red.

That sound's like the way to go.

Thank you Fermis, That's what I "should " have said.   ( Darn paint fume's... )