The Latest Craze or "How My Paint Misbehaves"

[zenrat]

...Charger? 

Yep.  Revell '68 Charger.  A lovely kit.  I stripped it, knocked up some decals and it became this - a whiff General Lee street fighter.

[TheChronicOne]

Dude, that's fantastic!!  That's a whif but dare I say would be more true to life than the car in the show always being in pristine condition after being completely wrecked repeatedly, multiple times, in each episode.  I mean, Cooter is good and all, but, there would need to be half a dozen of him to even begin to keep up....    Stands to reason it would be in varying states of repair at times and the Duke Boys being Duke Boys would want to modify with bigger engine stuff like that intake and hood.  Also, looks like they may be on their way to the drag strip in the near future, which if I remember right, they didn't do drag racing?  Definitely a cool whif.

[TheChronicOne]

Ok, problem solved! Thank you all for the help. I was much more methodical and patient this time and while this stuff didn't turn out quite as well as the wing tops I'm very happy with it.



Camera work is shoddy.... but...  trust it looks pretty good in person. If you get within 4 inches you can start to see some specs of tiny dust that got on the finish somehow but it doesn't bother me very much at all. The overall product is going to be nice, I think, and might be my best model yet. 

EDIT: on a sidenote, these came out quite a bit more shiny than the wing tops, too, which is nice, but I sort of prefer the flatter more satin-ey matte-ey type finish but this rocks. I'm moving on to the next phase...

[PR19_Kit]

I had that 'crazy paving' issue with the white paint on my Canberra MR23, but ONLY the white paint, not the grey on the lower half. It seems to have stopped spreading now, after a few years, but it'll be a real swine to sand just the white, re-paint it and then re-decal it.

[TheChronicOne]

I had that 'crazy paving' issue with the white paint on my Canberra MR23, but ONLY the white paint, not the grey on the lower half. It seems to have stopped spreading now, after a few years, but it'll be a real swine to sand just the white, re-paint it and then re-decal it.

Yikes.... What is it about white paint?! That sounds like a chore, indeed.

I guess I'll be watching my Yak-9 that I wrapped up a couple weeks ago that has the same paint and primer on it...I hope it doesn't start this nonsense like half a year from now or something.

That said, I have half a mind to intentionally seek out a way to make crazing happen and have it be consistent and somewhat uniform then some how turn it into a "cracked earth" camo scheme or something.   

[TheChronicOne]

Interesting....  perhaps some sort of lightning or shattered glass effect could be achieved?  Definitely potential there and as I mentioned a bit ago about the cracked earth bit it looks sort of similar to dessicated earth.



No one can tell me that making a good duplication of something like this on some contraption wouldn't look cool:



It could work well for armor or aircraft stationed in the desert or something. 

[TheChronicOne]

Yeeee-e-e-ee-ee-aah buddy!   And thanks! Sometimes I manage to think outside of the box. One good thing about "mistakes" some times. Also,  the whif-world is extremely inviting for this type of odd thinking.   

[TheChronicOne]

Oh, and while we're at it, that's two scores for the "nail art" world as they also utilize water slide decals. I made a separate thread about that one. I can't remember if you saw that one or not but .. yeah, ladies' nail art might be a "thing" for us what if modellers.   

[TheChronicOne]

Just posted a photo in my thread of a small go at the nail polish. And no I didn't see the "nail art" thread but I already have some of those to use, some checkered strips and paint-ball splots among others.

http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,39500.new.html#new

Oooh yeah, I had a look! Good on ya for that!   You achieved a nice result there at the end and thanks for hopping on the grenade and doing the trials. There's a beauty supplies store real close to my house I might just head down there tomorrow to window shop.

[zenrat]

The Clear on this one cracked for the same reason as the Charger above (Lacquer over Enamel).
I removed the body, pried out the clear parts and removed the grille and lights and dropped it into a brake fluid bath and left it for a while (a few days I think).  When I lifted it out to check on progress I discovered that where the brake fluid had got into the cracks it had removed the green paint down to the white undercoat but where there was lacquer it had not yet got through the green.  I liked the effect so I rinsed it off and then cleared it again.
I've never been able to replicate the effect unfortunately.

[TheChronicOne]

The Clear on this one cracked for the same reason as the Charger above (Lacquer over Enamel).
I removed the body, pried out the clear parts and removed the grille and lights and dropped it into a brake fluid bath and left it for a while (a few days I think).  When I lifted it out to check on progress I discovered that where the brake fluid had got into the cracks it had removed the green paint down to the white undercoat but where there was lacquer it had not yet got through the green.  I liked the effect so I rinsed it off and then cleared it again.
I've never been able to replicate the effect unfortunately.

Well how 'bout that! No offense intended but I'd say that fits the definition of "polishing a turd" and I like it, too! It's as if you planned it that way. Ill have to remember this when the day comes I spray clear on something. So far all I've done for final finish is brush dolla' sto' floor polish and dunks parts in it here or there but I want to try to achieve a really super high gloss sheen one day and I want to try to rattle can clears at some point just to get some "learnin and sciencin' " in.  Otherwise, if you mix "Simple Green" cleaner in with Future I've been told it give a really wet looks that stay permanently.

Brad