Flip Paint on FTO in Progress

[Focus2000]

Originally posted by lotus_man
Cool car! But what's the paint, cause my local Halfords don't seem to have anything like it

[Little-B]

Hi Steve,

it´s funny, but I have this baby on my list too.

It needs the "Special edition" Kit.

[Andy Jones]

Looking good Steve - I think Halfords owe us some commision

[V1nce]

right iwent on a mission 2 find out about halfords flip paint while the girl friend was buy shoes or something on saturday. there not off the rack paints, ie from ford vauxhall etc, you have to get them mixed. if you go to the paint racks and look above there should be a advert for there mixing service with some flip, candy and mica examples

i then collared a member of staff for price (tuff job as any uk user will agree) he reckoned £10 for a flip can then £11 for the lacquer :O

[Andy Jones]

I forgot to mention - don't bother buying the custom clearcoat cause it sucks (as i found out to my cost - 2 days drying and still tacky a
I wouldn't bother getting the black basecoat for the flip paint either cause your can use any halfords acrylic as a base.
Hopefully you can save a bit of cash.

[V1nce]

anyone noticed the halfords colours are similar to those of alcad???

hummmmmmm

[MrHappy]

Right!!!!

Thats me off to Halfords at the week-end then!!!

[chrismcgee]

dont go to halfords, pm jimbob and ask to buy some of his flip paints, they come pre thinned and the grains are a lot thinner looking more in scale than some of the others, just look at my smooth ass focus thread and see what just how good his paint is.

believe me it will be far better for you than a trip to halfords and you should be more happy with the results

[exhaust smoke]

Just going back to the FTO, but wasn't this car featured in the latest copy of Japanese Performance magazine??

[Hiroboy]

Originally posted by exhaust smoke
Just going back to the FTO, but wasn't this car featured in the latest copy of Japanese Performance magazine??

Yes it was. I would never own a real FTO in that colour far to Max Power, it's just I have about 10 FTO kits so I tried it on one of them.
BTW : If you want to see a couple of cool FTO's see Japanese Performance Issue No 6 Sept/Oct 2000

[Hiroboy]

Originally posted by chrismcgee
dont go to halfords, pm jimbob and ask to buy some of his flip paints, they come pre thinned and the grains are a lot thinner looking more in scale than some of the others, just look at my smooth ass focus thread and see what just how good his paint is.

believe me it will be far better for you than a trip to halfords and you should be more happy with the results

You're right the Halford stuff have larger flakes, have to keep cleaning the airbrush ever 2 mins, maybe better in a rattle can

Sounds great. CALLING JIMBOB

[SpoonMan Dos]

Looks great to me. That's actually the color my NSX is supposed to be. Who knows, mabye I'll build another one with that exact color.

[crismag]

looks very cool steve

[Purpura Delujo]

Looks cool, is it the Fujimi FTO kit? If so.................. That kit has the worst interior detail I have ever seen!! But the quality of the body is very good!

[Luka3000gt]

Wow I want to paint myVespa (1:1 scale) like this fto, how much is that flip paint from jimbob.