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Getting back into the hobby after many years. Have a kit of the 1969 Camaro pace car. The kit plastic is white, the car was also white. Should I paint it, or just build it as is? If paint, what do you recomend?
Yes,you should paint it.
Are you airbrushing, rattlecans, or handbrushing
Tojo72 Yes,you should paint it. Are you airbrushing, rattlecans, or handbrushing
If you leave the body in bare plastic, it will discolor and look worse over time.
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I would reccomend a light grey, satin primer like Gunze’s Mr Suracer 1200, followed by a flat white primer, and then a gloss white top coat.
The reason being that the grey primer will kill light transmission, the white primer will restore the white color with fewer coats than gloss, and the gloss white will provide the final finish.
It sounds humbug, but that is how I did my Airfix Saturn V.
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I did a tamiya porche that was molded in beautiful black plastic that I only clearcoated. Also, some tamiya semigloss black callouts look identical to some of their black sprues. Other than that, ill paint.
Thanks,
John
A quick and dirty approach is to just clear glosscoat the body. This reduces the translucent affect and makes it appear more of a painted surface. Not as good as paint, but a quick solution. I consider gloss black the hardest color to paint well, with gloss white the second hardest. Another option some of my friends use is to do the paint with flat white- easier to do- and then clearcoat with gloss.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
I think the determining factor is how well the kit fit is. If you can get away with zero seam work, it could be OK. But if it's an older kit like the AMT one, it'll be a problem.
Bill
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