Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Die cast Cars

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

It's much like painting a real car, all comes down to prep. Because the bodies are a white metal, a zinc chromate primer is best, but as long as the surface is not super-smooth (say, sanded with a relatively course grit sand paper), regualr primer should suffice.

I use car wax to keep the paint's lustre nice and shiny.

My project is stalled at the moment, but I was in the midst of doing a model of my car. I used the Elvis Presley edition of the GT4 as my car is black, all I did was apply the Boxer trim to it.

Note to change interior colour: When taking a dark interior and painting it lighter, paint first silver, then paint the colour you want over top of that. The model came with black seats/doors but my car is red inside. I painted it first silver, then painted it red - no colour bleed of the black through the red (or in the case of the headliner, white). Silver is completely opaque, it blocks out any colour underneath.

Peter

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 15:59:27 -0500
From: l02turner [at] comcast.net
Subject: [Ferrari] Die cast Cars
CC: ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com
To: dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com

    I seem to recall some other collectors of die Cars on this list.  Seems like they modified their DC cars to represent the real cars they own.    I also have quite a few DC cars and was wondering if other collectors are having trouble with paint on their cars like I am?   A couple have gotten to the point where i am pondering repainting the bodies and I was hoping i might get some pointers here before  I search YouTube for some help.

Or maybe I'm the only one with paint flaking?

TIA,
LarryT

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