Also hardens the paint also. THere are a few reasons. But I will explain soon to you all in my guide.
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Also hardens the paint also. THere are a few reasons. But I will explain soon to you all in my guide.
Part #1 of 2
So you want to Candy Paint.
In this guide, I will demonstrate how paint baking and candy painting is done. Remember, this is not the only way to bake paint. There is 100 different ways to do the paint baking but in the end the results will be the same. That said, you should read MNPCTECH’s painting guide before reading my guide. That was the first painting guide I ever read and the first you should read to understand my technique in a better way. For a long time I followed MNPCTECH's guide but then I started to experiment with different ways and ways to shorten the time for the paint to dry. Thus my technique was created.
Remember…. Please Remember
Remember that painting can be very relaxing and rewarding. This painting guide shows you how to paint with candy finishes and also how to oven bake your paint. Remember that I am a complete novice and my guide can’t be accountable for any damages to you or your property. Remember this might be quicker way to paint but you need to keep a close eye on the paint at all times. Literally, I was watching the paint bake all the way through just in case anything happened. This is because paint fumes are very combustible and you need to ‘purge your ovens air’ once in a while.
What you need..
You need a nice area to work in. I always liked working inside in a well ventilated area because you can better control the environment. The METALCAST paint is very picky in the temperature it likes to dry in, but by baking it we overcome that issue. You need a oven that you don’t plan on using the whole time you are baking. Make sure your oven also has a vent in one of the 4 burners above it. Mine has a little pipe that runs from the oven to the top right hand side burner. This will allow some air to escape.
Oven
METALCAST ground coat
METALCAST tint
Scratch Filler & Primer (Red Primer)
Sand Paper (200,300,400)
Clear Coat
Rubber Gloves
Tape
Anodized Finish
To create the anodized finish like the Drive Bay you need to take the bare metal and wash it with soap and hot water. Then dry off. Tape up any areas were there will be moving parts like CD drive coming in contact with the drive bay. These areas we can not be paint because they need a specific clearness and the paint will normally exceed that clearness room. To anodize you don’t need the ground coat or primer. The tint needs to be first heated up. I used a pitcher filled with hot tap water, then I placed a dish over the can so it doesn’t float. I waited about 10mins, then took the can out. I started to shake the can. I put on the rubber gloves then I started to paint. Use very thin coats. Set the piece down and come back every 10min to 15min to paint again. If you want a more copperish look to the paint then only do a couple coats (2). If you want a deeper red, I would say do more like coats (5). But with doing 5 coats you need to pay extra attention to how thick the paint it becoming. At this point you can let it dry and still come out with nice paint job. But my secret is to bake it.
In Canada there are very cold temps during the winter and thus its difficult to paint. I painted out side once and the paint job was smooth but was very oopeg. The oven baking further smoothes out the paint and makes the surface glossy again.
Clean with hot soapy water. Dry
Warm-up can.
Paint the subject
First Dry ( if you do not want to bake stop now and still end up with nice paintjob)
Bake
Cool
What you get is.
Part #2 will be posted on TTM.
Nice guide! Can't wait for #2.
one question. How hot did you bake it?
will it be the same if you use gas stove, or thats a explosion wating to happen??
Aero- The temps depends on what you are baling. Plstics should be 170F and metals more. But in the second part I explain all that details for the baking. That’s one of the reasons why I made a part two, to the guide. There is so much I need to say I made two parts.
Wait for the for second part before you try this.
ColModish- Never tries it with gas stove. Please wait for the second part, I have some idea to make this a gas stove friendly way. I need to experiment.
While I was gone from the forums I still was modding. Not as much but a little. I was hoping to meat my May deadline for this case to but some stuff came up.
Any way here is what has been done. The pic speak for them self.
Some Hanging issues.
Need to be more like this though.
I add some support but need more support before it can stand right.
This is the back frame but I dont like the way it looks mightt haave re-paint it.
This is the turbo box with all the fins cut off. Also using spot putty to even the surface out.
I am even starting on the pump mount. Since this case is a small atk case its kinda hard to cram in a 1250 pump.
WOW
1. Amazing paint job
2. Amazing color
3. Amazing Idea
4. Amazing parts
= ZOMG GODLIKE!!! :eek:
What can I say that hasen't already been said.... :?
....Well first I am whit the other peoples here on:
- Awsome Paint...
- Great parts...((I want them all XD))
- Like what this is turning out to... :D
- ..and last... Darn Your good man XD
...So keep the great Work up... and i will be here looking after you :p 8)
....and for the word no one said yet.... Woppeli Dodda!! 8)
I got the pump no mounted. There will be a piece of plastic that will come over the mount to hide the metal. Thats the idea right now. As before this piece of metal is far from finished and will be more work.
Some more pics of the Turbo sanded after the spot putty. I think I need some more putty before I gets primer.
Ok first update in a while
This is the first put together. There will be many more builds before its finished.
I love that colour. Can't wate for it to be finnished.
Soon it will be finished. Well atleast the Knight Rider part will.
Then I got start work on the CWC part.
Some good news flew modders.
The turbo below, was chipped in the front and needed to be fixed. Also the holes at the top were to big. Well this morning I was trying out the AOC fans on the turbo and they fit perfect. I mean, they cover up the extra gap on the fan hole because AOC fan is thicker in size. This just means less work for me.
By tonight I should have the turbo finished in Bondo and hopefully primed. Also today I am going try and get the RAD mount bracket finished but that’s hard to do when I have no metal blade for my jig saw.
Here is the underglow effect finished. All I have to do is mount the transformer to the mobo tray. The witch is all wired up too. It looks so nice I toke like 10 pics.
I said I would try to do the Bondo work on the front so I did. Since I am so into the case right now might as well do more work before the work week begins? Ok here is what I did.
I first broke off the piece of plastic that was flapping.
Then I made a cardboard trace of the area needed to be filled.
Then cut a piece of plexi to that size.
Then I had to sanded the plexi so its the right thickness to fit in the hole.
When that was done I cleaned the area that I was going to epoxy the plexi to.
epoxyed the plexi to turbo.
Then waited for it to dry.
I am using anew bondo, this stuff is the carbon fiber stuff.
It has strands of fiber in it to make it stronger.
Also when dry its harder to sand.
I mixed allot of this stuff so I did the front and there was some small dents in the side so I filled them too..
I'm glad you're back posting updates, this is one of the reasons I signed up to bestcasescenario. Good work.
nice table cloth. lol
First I started buy making a sketch and cardboard model.
Here was the original idea for the bracket.
Here is the first issue I found with the Turbo case: In the areas with no Bondo / putty filler, its not smooth. I am going to try to sand the whole turbo again to smooth it out. If that doesn’t work I am going to putty it all up.
... breath taking ...
i love the craftmmanship, the color, the.....EVERYTHING!!!1 know what would be cool. you should put fans on the holes on the turbo... if you are then you can mods comps and read minds. lol :p
this is such a good looking mod, i mean color wise it's insane!! i love that color you are using, and i'm thinking of trying the oven method.
Quote:
Originally Posted by marquee
The other car that was developed at the same time as kitt was Karr. and Goliath (semi) both karr and goliath went bad.
I love this case. its comming along well.
We figured out that it was K.R.O (Knight Reformulation One)Quote:
Originally Posted by Murader
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/f...1&postcount=41
I cant belive there is a huge ass fan base for Knight Rider till I found that site about all the knight Rider stories.
I herd there might be anther Knight Rider movie in the workings.
http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hp&cf=prev&id=1809353183
BTW guys I have been working on the case, but I came accorrs one major set back. When I was sanding the top panle for final time before paint the primer started to peal off. Not all of its gone but I think its because the surface under the primer was supper smooth so I am going to sand the it will 80 grip paper then prime is again. I hope this will fix the issues.
