How to paint the diecast

[Diecast]

Project Details

I started this project as i brought this Maisto ML 55 Amg in purple as no option i found for Black as to adjust with rest of my AMG collection (C 63AMG,S 63AMG,G 55AMG,CL 63AMG) so decided to try hands on Maisto and learn to paint it ...Scared as i am not good in detailing or not even handy man.

[karansharma8783]

Thanks Ravi for sharing this with us, I think not many people on this forum have ever tried their hands on this and this will definitely help us out. Would like to ask you one thing is that paint can available commonly in stores here?

@ Mods - Could you please move this thread to the "Model care and tips" section? Thanks.

[Abacus]

Thanks Ravi.

[Diecast]

(07-25-2010 04:01 PM)karansharma8783 Wrote:  Thanks Ravi for sharing this with us, I think not many people on this forum have ever tried their hands on this and this will definitely help us out. Would like to ask you one thing is that paint can available commonly in stores here?

@ Mods - Could you please move this thread to the "Model care and tips" section? Thanks.

Paint is available in shops where they keep the parts of the car ...

[Diecast]

I think normal paint with brush is okie but we need to put couple of coats of Varnish for shine

[kvsk4]

@Diecast- Thanks for sharing your project. This act fully completes the hobby of diecast model collection. Great job man.

Well, if such paints are available easily then I feel we should all try something like this. Once a while every one of us buys (impulsively) some model in a color that one doesnt like so much, but only because the required color is not available and we are afraid of losing that model completely.

Painting, repairing and modifying these models gives complete meaning to the hobby of Diecast Scale Model Collection.

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(07-25-2010 04:01 PM)karansharma8783 Wrote:  Thanks Ravi for sharing this with us, I think not many people on this forum have ever tried their hands on this and this will definitely help us out. Would like to ask you one thing is that paint can available commonly in stores here?

@ Mods - Could you please move this thread to the "Model care and tips" section? Thanks.

Karan, you have that Dodge Viper in silver, isnt it? Try to paint it blue now. Hope metallic colors are available in spray cans.

[Diecast]

(07-26-2010 07:07 PM)kvsk4 Wrote:  @Diecast- Thanks for sharing your project. This act fully completes the hobby of diecast model collection. Great job man.

Well, if such paints are available easily then I feel we should all try something like this. Once a while every one of us buys (impulsively) some model in a color that one doesnt like so much, but only because the required color is not available and we are afraid of losing that model completely.

Painting, repairing and modifying these models gives complete meaning to the hobby of Diecast Scale Model Collection.

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(07-25-2010 04:01 PM)karansharma8783 Wrote:  Thanks Ravi for sharing this with us, I think not many people on this forum have ever tried their hands on this and this will definitely help us out. Would like to ask you one thing is that paint can available commonly in stores here?

@ Mods - Could you please move this thread to the "Model care and tips" section? Thanks.

Karan, you have that Dodge Viper in silver, isnt it? Try to paint it blue now. Hope metallic colors are available in spray cans.

Wanna add to kvsk4 that we can try on cheap or low cost model first to gain some experience and confidence than try on your rest .

[amarkatira]

nice job done with spray can but what about Decals and logos???
for using brush to paint, i have tried many times with brush and recently seeing Bugatti EB11o in blue in our forum I scraped my welly EB110 of small scale and tried using acrylic paint but then also very faint brush strokes are visible so I scraped the car again and now I am trying some thing new, if it works I'll post it.simplest way is Buy an Airbrush at @1200.00 get an old refrigerator compressor for @1500.00 to drive it, and you can paint like professional.If anybody has idea about recreating decals please let us also know.

[Diecast]

(07-27-2010 03:41 AM)amarkatira Wrote:  nice job done with spray can but what about Decals and logos???
for using brush to paint, i have tried many times with brush and recently seeing Bugatti EB11o in blue in our forum I scraped my welly EB110 of small scale and tried using acrylic paint but then also very faint brush strokes are visible so I scraped the car again and now I am trying some thing new, if it works I'll post it.simplest way is Buy an Airbrush at @1200.00 get an old refrigerator compressor for @1500.00 to drive it, and you can paint like professional.If anybody has idea about recreating decals please let us also know.

Amar i better say use some kind of tape or something that u can hide them and peel the tape to save them.

But sometimes problem comes with transparents stickers ..i better suggest we can replace them with some similar looking decals or try to replica from the people who make numberplate

[amarkatira]

(07-27-2010 05:16 AM)Diecast Wrote:  

(07-27-2010 03:41 AM)amarkatira Wrote:  nice job done with spray can but what about Decals and logos???
for using brush to paint, i have tried many times with brush and recently seeing Bugatti EB11o in blue in our forum I scraped my welly EB110 of small scale and tried using acrylic paint but then also very faint brush strokes are visible so I scraped the car again and now I am trying some thing new, if it works I'll post it.simplest way is Buy an Airbrush at @1200.00 get an old refrigerator compressor for @1500.00 to drive it, and you can paint like professional.If anybody has idea about recreating decals please let us also know.

Amar i better say use some kind of tape or something that u can hide them and peel the tape to save them.

But sometimes problem comes with transparents stickers ..i better suggest we can replace them with some similar looking decals or try to replica from the people who make numberplate

thanks Ravi,nice idea but most of the times its not working because logo and model no. are mostly directly painted on body.
I have thought of going to sticker makers wo make stickers with the help of any picture on computer, I think they can reduce it to very small size almost similler to our decals. If it works I will updat here. thanks.