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This stuff works and looks great.
Thanks.
They need to come out with a Krylon sized can and charge half the price though. I made two trips to the LHS and bought 5 cans of different colors painting rockets the last few days and at $5/ can it's not cheap.
If you go basic -- white, red, black, the Rustoleum lacquers are amazing. "Krylon sized", and available many places for ~ $5. I buy them at 40% off at Hobby Lobby.
Here is a bashed StormCaster I did with them. The silver on the nose cone is Testors Lacquer, although I could have used any paint. And, I've had no problems mixing Testors, Model Masters, and Rustoleum lacquers (using the white Rustoleum under other colors from the Testors and Model Masters).
Are you sure the Rustoleum is a lacquer? All the ones I've seen are enamels. Do they have a special series of lacquers?
Look at the instructions. "Recoat any time" is lacquer. "Recoat within an hour or after 24" is enamel.
These are very nice paints ,as I used them on my G-Force (green,gold and black)
Another option are the color match line from Duplicolor.These paints are acrylic lacquer (dries & cures very fast and very durable) and come in several nice colors some with candy and flake.The cans are 227 grams versus the usual 312 grams and are about $12 bucks up here in Canada ,so prices in the US may be less.
Use Duplicolor primer first.
Cheers
Paul t
This stuff works and looks great. Though these small cans don't go very far (I used 2 cans on this 2.6 " 50 " long rocket) I am pleased by the results. The black metal flake color looks great too.
Thanks.
Testors calls these metallic lacquers "one coat". I put on one light coat waited a few days then put a heavy 2nd coat to get the wet look. Plus I had primered and sanded it pretty smooth prior to applying the black.
I have also used the Revving Red and Diamond Dust colors in the same paint and liked them too, but they didn't end up quite as glossy as the black. The lacquer seems to spray on much better than the Testors enamel rattle cans.
They need to come out with a Krylon sized can and charge half the price though. I made two trips to the LHS and bought 5 cans of different colors painting rockets the last few days and at $5/ can it's not cheap.
I picked up a can of Duplicolor Green with metal flake from Canadian Tire, but I didn't notice a metallic black. I am doing my Super DX in metallic black and I have some custom vinyl from stickershock that just arrived.
Where else do you nab Duplicolor metal flake from up here in Canada Paul?
Ukranian Wheel haha! Yeah I've used Testors on nearly every rocket I've built, but it's the price that kills me. My next two paint jobs are for a Super DX 3 and a stretched Richter Recker, so I'm going to need lots of paint.
Found an old can,it`s called Rust-oleum Metallic -Black Night #242 629 .
Thanks Paul, I gotta go get some landscaping ties from Rona anyways, easy way to convince the wife to go there
Speaking of wife, I finished body filling the top half of the Recker last night, got it sanded and cleaned and convinced my wife to spray the first coat of Duplicolor filler primer. Seems to go on great!
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