squarehead.design: r/c & helmet painting
 

I figured it was about time I posted some of the work I have done over the years. I have been painting R/C bodies for over 25 years now, and in the last year started painting helmets, too, for a living.

Hope you enjoy my efforts... :)


doug

The "trophy girl" car from the 80s Associated ads:
http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...l-RC10_001.jpg

A replica of the RC10 from the original RC10 manual:
http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...manual_004.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...manual_009.jpg

Early RPS Yokomo reproduction body, from the original mold:
http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...rps-v1_002.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...rps-v1_001.jpg

A reproduction Kyosho Ultima Pro scheme, based on the customer's original body colors:
http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...ma-pro_003.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...ma-pro_005.jpg

Yokomo 870c reproduction, with undertray:
http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...i_yz10_006.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...i_yz10_001.jpg

A body for the new Ultima SC-R for a Wisconsin racer:
http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...how-sc_000.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...how-sc_004.jpg

Freshly finished, a Cliff Lett "Team Moo" RC10T replica:
http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...-rc10t_004.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...-rc10t_002.jpg

A couple of retro-themed RC10 Protech bodies for the same customer:
http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...o-rc10_001.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...2-rc10_001.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...2-rc10_002.jpg

Love the SC body, very nice work.

Love all of them! :wub

yeh man, nice work buddy.

jon

:)

Thanks guys. Here's a few of my personal cars over the last few years...

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain..._paint_013.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain.../bj4we_013.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain..._paint_010.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...nt/mi3_035.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...o-rb5_026s.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...am_edm_005.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...emodel_002.jpg

Thought you guys might like to see this. It's from a few years ago, and was a design challenge. The idea was to paint a car using ONLY 2 main colors. In this case, it was red, and a slightly darker tint of red to create something that I don't think has ever been done on an R/C body before. It was easily one of the most time consuming paint jobs I had done to that point.

Hope you like my creative study...

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...roline_002.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...roline_003.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...roline_004.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...roline_005.jpg

Here's a suite of cars I did a few years ago in a bit of a different scheme...

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain..._paint_001.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...t/xxxt_001.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...xxxbk2_001.jpg

Here's the last helmet to come out of the paint shop—pearl white & white stars, 3 pearl reds and 3 pearl/candy blues with a nice metalflake in it:

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...merica_012.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...merica_008.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain...merica_009.jpg

nice work, what paint do you use on the Helmets?

I shoot water-based on everything at this point. All of the paint on the R/C and helmets is AutoAir, Createx and Parma Faskolor. The helmets are clear-coated with a low VOC polyurethane.

I didn't realise you could, might have to give it a bash, what base coat do you use?

Yeah, you could use finger paints or Sharpie markers if you wanted to. :woot: The base prep needs to be clean and the helmet needs a solvent-based clear coat when finished.

For new helmets, I thoroughly scuff the new surface with a red 3M pad or 600 grit wet/dry paper. Clean well with a degreaser and paint. If the helmet is used or not white, I will scuff the same way as a new, then apply a couple of coats of AutoAir 4001 (white) or 4002 (dark grey) base coat. Mask and paint as usual.

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain.../dixon_001.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain.../dixon_004.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain.../dixon_023.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain.../dixon_037.jpg

http://www.squareheaddesign.com/pain.../dixon_039.jpg

This thing is :woot::woot::wub
What a steady hand you must have! Incredible skills :thumbsup: