3rd & 4th attempts 😀

[TommyC]

So these two went a bit better than the last. First one is a hyper7 vse roller I bought off here. Second is the baja flux which isn’t quite finished.

 

I managed to do the hyper with colours I already had. So I decided to go two tone to get the coverage I needed. I know your supposed to start with the darker colours but it was easier with the masking to start with the white.

 

 

made the window masking by just covering them and trimming with a scalpel. As with all the stages on this it could of done with another coat or two but that wasn’t obvious until I put the darker colours down.

 

 

The plan was to just have a black diamond on the top with a white streak through it but I realised the way I had put the tape down meant I could add some more detail.

 

 

so now it was just down to smoking the windows. Took my time with this after my last fail. It still looks patchy when held up to the light but when on the car you can’t tell. I’m chuffed with how it’s turned out.

 

 

I’d barely finished built this when I managed to snap up a flux sbk kit off eBay for £540. It’s up and running now so I’ve started on the shell. I went with brilliant blue and fluorescent yellow. I wanted to try and make it look like it has sparks flying off it so I roughly stuck 2mm tape all over it to leave little flecks all over it for the fluo.

 

 

it doesn’t quite pop like I wanted it too, or really look like sparks for that matter! But I can’t get any white or silver at my lhs to back it with at the mo. One idea, although not all that practical, is to put some leds down the frame rails to light it up from behind. What do you think?

 

 

[Stormbringer]

Both shells turned out well but never thought about using leds that way tho but does look good 

[TommyC]

It was my mate who first put a light behind it. You can see more green where the blue went on lighter in place's and the colours blend, which is kind of the effect I was hoping for in the first place. Just not sure how I’d go about a custom led circuit for it?

[SimplyChunk]

2 hours ago, TommyC said:

It was my mate who first put a light behind it. You can see more green where the blue went on lighter in place's and the colours blend, which is kind of the effect I was hoping for in the first place. Just not sure how I’d go about a custom led circuit for it?

What radio gear you using.  I know for a fact that DumboRC do receivers that have sockets for LEDs cause i have one. It's called the DumboRC X6DC. they do it with or without a gyro the gyro has a (G) at the end of the model name.

 

 

The receivers are less than a tenner. all of them. and you can pick up a DDF-350 from AliExpress without a receiver for about 30-35 quid

[TommyC]

I’ve got a dumbo 350 and a few spare 6ch receivers. They’re the ones without light ports so I was just going to wire them to a futaba plug.

 

i looked into it a bit and although I could buy a light kit from a different model and make it fit, I think I’d rather make up my own harness. I’m liking the idea more and more but whether it actually comes to fruition I’m not sure.

[TommyC]

I managed to find somewhere local with some white and black in stock so I picked up a couple of cans of each. Here’s a before and after of white backing. Really does make a difference. 

[Stormbringer]

yeh does look better when backed with the white so you wont need the leds now then 

[TommyC]

So after giving the hyper a bit of a battering I’m amazed at how solid this thing is. Unfortunately the shell has not done the rest of the car justice. Lots of flaking paint. Weirdly the white seems to be worse off than the black and orange. I keyed the inside of the shell and washed it out well. Any ideas why this has happened?

[Stormbringer]

You did use polycarbonate paint ?

[TommyC]

Yep. All tamiya ps paint 

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, TommyC said:

Yep. All tamiya ps paint 

are you doubly sure it's PS paint and not TS paint cause the cans are the same looking

[TommyC]

Yes. I’ve got one tin of ts in black. The white was the first coat to go on and I did 3-4 coats of each colour. Is it possible too many coats of paint might take the flexibility out of it?

[SimplyChunk]

29 minutes ago, TommyC said:

Yes. I’ve got one tin of ts in black. The white was the first coat to go on and I did 3-4 coats of each colour. Is it possible too many coats of paint might take the flexibility out of it?

only if they were too heavy when applied.

[wombat]

Was thinking that, is the paint on too thick 

[TommyC]

13 hours ago, SimplyChunk said:

only if they were too heavy when applied.

That’s probably it. I do tend to lay the light colours on a bit thicker. Not intentionally, I think it’s just because they don’t seem to cover as well. Made the same mistake with the smoke. However the orange is fluorescent and I was probably laying that on quite thick too.