[SEMI] realistic damage paint

[jimmy]

I'm sure I'm not the first person to come up with this idea by a long shot but I've never heard of it before so I'll put this out there



Had the idea a while back to paint up my SC so it showed battle-damage - these things are supposed to be a bit of fun and scale looks after all.. Now of course a real short course truck isn't going to have a body made of any sort of metal I'd guess, but that's a point we don't need to worry about here

Basically I sprayed the inside (masked windows first) with a chrome-type paint. I actually masked the outside of the windows with the full-sized window masks and then created a smaller window mask for the inside so my chrome paint would end up creating a nice window border when I'd finished the paint.

For the outside I had the idea to create a nice matt-black look - I was going to use some matt / semi-gloss car paint I had laying around until I got hold of a can of the Tamiya PS clear-matt spray, which you can spray over the outside of any body and make it matt....... When it came down to it though I didn't have any normal black, or certainly not enough to cover the huge short course shell so I ended up using the semi-gloss paint I had laying around. The spray can was a bit tired and old so didn't spray great and I was a bit disapointed with the finish - you'd get a much nicer finish using a normal / gloss black and then coating it with the Tamiya matt-clear.
This is the clear matt from Tamiya: http://www.tamiya.com/english/produc...lear/index.htm

After I sprayed the black I added a little bit of rust/dist detail along with picking out a few of the roll-cage details on the back of the shell. All sprayed on the outside.

I finished the shell off with some custom-designed plotter-cut vinyl decals - including drift-stylee for the right hand side and clear-coated everything again with the Tamiya matt-clear spray so the stickers weren't shiny.

The idea ofcourse is that the body will get rubbed / scuffed up and show through some silver battle-damage - possibly making it look a bit TOUGH! haha.
I guess I could have sprayed it brown/rust colour first on the outside, then the black - meaning I'd have a nice rusty outline round any scrapes - or I could have sprayed a lot more colourful design on the outside and either clear coated it matt or gloss for the finish desired - maybe that's next.

Anyway, here's the truck.











It's not been run yet - only scratched with a fingernail for fun - obviously if all the paint falls off with the first crash I'll delete this thread and pretend it never happened. But I think it should be 'a bit cool' once it's had a couple of races and been attacked by some other trucks.