A car painting question!

[techlab2k]

Hi all, I’m a relative novice but really fancied doing a car. I went to my local model shop and had a browse. I didn’t go for a specific car but wanted something that looked easy to paint with lots of sleek areas and few sticky out bits. I eventually left with a Tamiya 1/24 SLR 722 kit as it looked like a sleek bit of motor to have a go at - fool.
Anyway, stocked up on the zero paint for the body etc.

The kit is quite complicated for me but think I have a plan but one thing has me puzzled:
The doors. The outer is, obviously, body colour and the inside is black. Should I paint the whole door in body colour and mask off and do the black on top or mask off the black areas and do the body and interior colours separately? What I don’t want is one colour sitting higher than the other with a noticeable ridge between the two or will it not matter or not be obvious?

Thanks in advance.

[Twokidsnosleep]

I think you are talking about the black work/rubber around the window on the door as well as the interior?
There should be a good ‘window ledge’ that will allow you to hide any paint seam.
Guessing you have an airbrush if you bought zero paint
I would suggest masking off that portion of the window, priming and then painting the body colour on the door, then masking off that portion with de-tacked Tamiya tape and paint the window area black and the interior.
I am being specific with tape as others might tear off your body colour. De-tacking is just running the sticky tape on your wrist a few times to reduce the tapes ‘strength’

BIG WARNING:
Zero paints are very ‘hot’. Meaning they have a stronger lacquer base to them as they are real automotive paints.
You MUST spray extremely thin layers and let them dry or you WILL melt your plastic beyond repair.
Myriad of folks who have destroyed nice kits because of this

Hope this helps, let me know how it goes
Scott

[techlab2k]

Hi Scott, thanks for the reply and the tips. I’m still learning about the paints but your reply has helped me no end. It’s the door card / inner door I was trying to describe so I thought I would take a pic to highlight it. Once I had zoomed in on the photo, I can see a ridge on the part that solves my issue. The door card has part body colour and part interior but as there’s a ridge it won’t look wrong if I paint it all in the body colour, mask it and do the inner colour.
I should have gone to Specsavers (or listened as a kid, they said it would make me blind).

Pete

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[Twokidsnosleep]

Hi Scott, thanks for the reply and the tips. I’m still learning about the paints but your reply has helped me no end. It’s the door card / inner door I was trying to describe so I thought I would take a pic to highlight it. Once I had zoomed in on the photo, I can see a ridge on the part that solves my issue. The door card has part body colour and part interior but as there’s a ridge it won’t look wrong if I paint it all in the body colour, mask it and do the inner colour.
I should have gone to Specsavers (or listened as a kid, they said it would make me blind).

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Ahh there you go mate
Yes I understand now, the body colour wrapping into the inside part of the door
Paint that all up and then mask it off
Have a look at Paul’s Ultimate primers...they are super easy to spray and make a wonderful black interior colour
The black here is Ultimate primer

[techlab2k]

Will do, and thanks. That’s a fantastic looking interior too. I have the Ultimate primers so will go with that.

Pete