New Body and First Attempt At Airbrushing

[UE-Maxx]

I started this body on Friday and finished it today. It is not the greatest, but now I know what I need to work on and what to do next time. I am terrible at cutting straight lines.

[Ponch]

Cool. Looks nice, I like the CF.

Next time, use a border between the white and yellow. It'll make the colors pop more, I learned that after doing it between those two colors.

[UE-Maxx]

I planned on doing a pearl red pinstripe around the yellow, but it didn't work out too well. I guess I didn't cut through the mask enough and when I went to peel just the area where the pinstripe would be, I started to pull the yellow area too.

[Ponch]

Ahh... Gotcha. I've learned the importance of a good fresh blade, on the last body I did the same thing happened, but on this one that I just did I used a fresh blade and had 0 problems. Oh well. Your new buggy body still looks cool.

[UE-Maxx]

Thanks, I think I know what I want to do for the next one, already. LOL

[Ponch]

Yeah, it's just coming up with the $ for a new body and paint lol.

[UE-Maxx]

The paint really isn't that big of a deal, but it is the bodies at $25. I am going to paint my brother a Mini-t body first, but I think I am going buy another body on my next a-main order, which might be tomorrow.

[Ponch]

Yeah paint is relatively inexpensive, it's the body like you said. I got lucky and got mine for $20 shipped on ebay.

[Racin' Ranger1]

sweet looking bod

[UE-Maxx]

Thanks

It looks better in the pictures, but if you look at it close there are a lot of things that you can see are way off/wrong.

[Traxxas_Junkee]

Not bad, I'm not even going to attempt one, LOL.

[UE-Maxx]

I got some stickers on there now and it looks a little better. You'll be able to see it at the track hopefully in two or so weeks.

[BottledBeast]

nice looking paint job.. .are thier templets for all of these designs everyone is doing here??? im just wondering cuz all of these first times are getting some real nice looking bodies and i cant figure out how.

[UE-Maxx]

The only thing I used was the shelf liner to get the carbon fiber look.

[mr-x]

The paint really isn't that big of a deal, but it is the bodies at $25. I am going to paint my brother a Mini-t body first, but I think I am going buy another body on my next a-main order, which might be tomorrow.

Go to Stromer Hobbies .com. They have Mini T bodies CHEAP, like $3 each. They used to have them for $2. That is where I got 10 of them for practice! Be warned, though...masking and cutting out designs inside a smaller body is harder than on a large shell. But you do use less materials (paint and LMF) !!

Have fun!

[UE-Maxx]

Go to Stromer Hobbies .com. They have Mini T bodies CHEAP, like $3 each. They used to have them for $2. That is where I got 10 of them for practice! Be warned, though...masking and cutting out designs inside a smaller body is harder than on a large shell. But you do use less materials (paint and LMF) !!

Have fun!

Thanks

[Tex]

yeah, thanks "Mr. X"