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
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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