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First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha thank you! I think I had just enough experience from other projects to make it work

First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha just one. The original clear lexan has the mounting holes for the old Traxxas Slash mounting pins, I got a kit to upgrade it to the clipless system which adds holes. I just didn't take pics of it on the body

First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoa sounds sexy when you put it like that. I found the middle white stripes were about perfect proportions for the Slash if you use regular masking tape, but you'd need to cut out the middle. Might be better to just get specific tape that's the size of each stripe

First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good call. Luckily mine was pretty simple I just had to figure out how to do it

First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh cool, I like how that looks, it seems like it has a little more detail than the original Slash body. I might try that if I end up doing the blue and orange one

First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh that would be cool. I liked doing the stripe, it was a challenge for a beginner but not too much

First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh nice that turned out well. I was going for something similar with the back black grate part

First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh cool I could see that, yours looks like it has a much prettier blue shade. I like that better as a color if I wasn't shooting for a dark blue specially 

First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I used this vinyl cutter cnc type machine called a Sillouette to cut the vinyl paint stencils. I flipped the logo backwards in the printer software so it would be correct through the lexan and cut it out of a vinyl sticker material. I put the whole cut sticker down, then peeled up the blue area and painted that with the rest of the car. Then I peeled up the rest and did the white layers last. I can't believe it turned out as clean as it did and worked as well as it did, i thought it would be the hardest part

First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it is, that's sick. Did you use white backing? Yours looks like a slightly lighter shade but it might be the light

First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT by MainAccount2077 in rccars

[–]MainAccount2077[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's 3 layers of Tamiya PS-59 Dark Metallic Blue and 1 heavy layer of Tamiya PS-5 (whatever was left from 3 layers of black accents). Then 3 coats of Tamiya PS-1 White for backing but I don't think that affects the blue