Revell "Bullitt" Mustang Highland Green color HELP!

zstripe

mississippivol

You can use automotive paint; but you have to be very careful to prime the body properly with a quality automotive primer, or the paint will eat the plastic. You should experiment with a junk car body that you won't mind messing up in order to get a feel for it. The thickness of the paint won't be a problem.

I'm having a slight problem understanding this comment. The thinner used, for the Primer, is the same that is used for the paint. The plastic is made with Petroleum products and so is the paint and primer. Should I expect my two corvette's that I painted three year's ago to melt, eventually? The fiberglass after all is another mixture of plastic resin's with Petroleum products. I think a lot of people are confusing solvent based paints, with the old  Floquil  paint that would attack the plastic slightly, if brushed on, not sprayed on. One of my Grandson's, for the past year, continues, to play with a  Tamiya 1/14 scale RC truck, that I painted with nothing but Automotive paint. Silver base coat and Metallic Blue over it. If you give it a couple of dust coats first, you won't have any problem's. As the OP mentioned, he is new and probably does not have an air brush, which would be ideal. So he should practice on some scrap, with a rattle can spray, for they do put out more paint, for model painting.

zstripe

Sorry, I was talking about the automotive primer out of the spray can, like Duplicolor. I've seen modeler's builds in "Scale Auto Enthusiast" that used it that way with no ill effects.

Have you thought about  matching or approximating the color to one of the many hobby paints that are available? You can fine tune it yourself.

V4EVER,

A suggestion: What ever paint you decide on. Try a little experiment, to get the color right. On some white shirt cardboard, spray an area with gray primer and then spray the color you want over it. Now on another piece of white cardboard, spray black primer and then the color you want. After drying, compare the two colors. I'm guessing the color you want of the Mustang, will look like the one you primed with the black. I have seen the color in person and it is rather deep looking. Have Fun!  But practice.

zstripe

mississippivol

You can use automotive paint; but you have to be very careful to prime the body properly with a quality automotive primer, or the paint will eat the plastic. You should experiment with a junk car body that you won't mind messing up in order to get a feel for it. The thickness of the paint won't be a problem.

I'm having a slight problem understanding this comment. The thinner used, for the Primer, is the same that is used for the paint. The plastic is made with Petroleum products and so is the paint and primer. Should I expect my two corvette's that I painted three year's ago to melt, eventually? The fiberglass after all is another mixture of plastic resin's with Petroleum products. I think a lot of people are confusing solvent based paints, with the old  Floquil  paint that would attack the plastic slightly, if brushed on, not sprayed on. One of my Grandson's, for the past year, continues, to play with a  Tamiya 1/14 scale RC truck, that I painted with nothing but Automotive paint. Silver base coat and Metallic Blue over it. If you give it a couple of dust coats first, you won't have any problem's. As the OP mentioned, he is new and probably does not have an air brush, which would be ideal. So he should practice on some scrap, with a rattle can spray, for they do put out more paint, for model painting.

zstripe

You can use automotive paint; but you have to be very careful to prime the body properly with a quality automotive primer, or the paint will eat the plastic. You should experiment with a junk car body that you won't mind messing up in order to get a feel for it. The thickness of the paint won't be a problem.

I found these guy's a few months ago, unfortunately they can't ship to Canada, thanks though :)

I heard from a few modelers not to use automotive spray paints on styrene. Personally I've never tried it, like I mentioned I've never really built a car before, so I'm a rookie to all this ha ha. But would it also be too thick for a model?

These guys claim to have it. Don't know if they'll ship to Canada, though:

www.mcwautomotivefinishes.com/.../catalog.html

What makes you think Automotive paint will melt Plastic? Maybe if you soaked it in pure Lacquer. That color should be Enamel for that year. See if they will sell you a half pint and use an air brush to paint. Get your self a scuff pad, scuff the model, put a dust coat on, let set, another dust coat, let dry  and then final coat.

Been painting real size cars and trucks all my life. Antique car collector. I'm only 72.

zstripe