dying nylon parts

[rcsammy]

i remember somthing on this but i cant find it so...

im geting some white proline dishes tomorrow and i want to dye them black

where do i get the dye from?

how much does it cost?

how do i do it?

[JamesChatz]

Im sure Mr Tigger posted something about dying parts but I cant find it for the life of me.

I think that you had to buy like a little steaming thing or something?

[dazzi220]

Merlin did it with some rims of his a while back

pm him about it

[JamesChatz]

Oh yeah thats who it was, he used a cheap thing from Argos didnt he, to hold the dye.

[scoobs]

http://www.msuk-forum.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=13521&hl=

[rcsammy]

thanks scoobs i will PM him about it aswell

[mrspeedy]

i dyed the wheels and wing on my ftx blaze last week .......

i even dyed the foam tyres that where on the wheels as well but seeing as the dye was black you couldn't really see

any way, all i used was hot water dye from the local hardware shop, cost about £3.50 i think.

just pop the dye and half a pint of water in the wifes best saucepan , add the wheels or whatever , boil for about ten minutes and yer done, apart from cleaning the saucepan .if she askes who it was just blame the kids .... works every time

[rcsammy]

i dyed the wheels and wing on my ftx blaze last week .......

i even dyed the foam tyres that where on the wheels as well but seeing as the dye was black you couldn't really see

any way, all i used was hot water dye from the local hardware shop, cost about £3.50 i think.

just pop the dye and half a pint of water in the wifes best saucepan , add the wheels or whatever , boil for about ten minutes and yer done, apart from cleaning the saucepan .if she askes who it was just blame the kids .... works every time

thanks

would one packet of dye or watever it comes in be enough to do 4 monster truck rims?

[Michael.]

Could I do this with my plastic CE-4 chassis?

Or does it have to be special plastic?

[smallman28]

thanks

would one packet of dye or watever it comes in be enough to do 4 monster truck rims?

Be careful,I dyed some Clodbuster rims once but because the plastic was quite thin it warped out of shape.

I did some 1/10 buggy wheels as well and cause they were smaller and more rigid they were fine.

[JamesChatz]

It probably has to be the dyeable plastic, which usually comes white

[smallman28]

It probably has to be the dyeable plastic, which usually comes white

Not really,I dyed some red fibre glass bits black once,they didn't come out black,black though but they weren't red either

I think any plastic would work but the colour change will probably be affected by the colour of what you start with.

[Michael.]

It's black at the mo so I might give it a miss.

[rcsammy]

hmmm say i wnated to do somthing like this

what paint would i use to do it?

[mrspeedy]

a mate of mine is always fiddling with his wheels 'n stuff ,

generally he uses sticky back vinyl, seems to work pretty good tho,

and you can change it if you don't like it too

[rcsammy]

brilliant idea cant beleive i didnt think of that

then it doesnt chip aswell

i will either dye them black

put stickers on them so they are similar to the ones in the pic

or put stickers on them so there like a swirl

what do you guys think would be best?

[JamesChatz]

If you wanted to dye them like that, how would you mask it off?

[rcsammy]

you dont dye them like that

i would either dye them completely black

or leave them white and put black vinyl stickers on