My Progress on my S2000. Serious Newbie Here...

[gabbadude]

Yes, I know. This is challenging for my first build. But when I do something I normally go all out and I just can't bare to see this colour scheme without the red interior. So, Maybe what I should do is brush paint the black on instead of spraying it. My feeling on this is that if masking is a learned skill, then I need to learn sometime! agreed??

[MPWR]

Originally Posted by gabbadude

My feeling on this is that if masking is a learned skill, then I need to learn sometime! agreed??

True, but given the choice, I'd much rather learn on something less challanging and less visible than the seats on a convertable. If you do a full engine build, you'll get lots of practice masking and brushpainting- but any imperfections won't be staring you in the face in big bright red and black.

I can certainly understand wanting to be ambitious, and without experince, it's hard to guess what will be easy and what won't. But on you're first several builds, you'll learn a bunch no matter how you do them- and the less ambitious you try to make them, the more likely they are to look good when they're finished (not to mention, the more likely they are to get finished).

Back to the seats- can you get Testors MM Acryl?

[gabbadude]

Thanks for the comments, but I feel that it isn't THAAT much of a challenge for me to get this right. You mentioned that I should've tried on a less ambitous build but from what I have read and seen, the S2000 is the least ambitious build around and everyone tells you as a newbie to start on the s2000. Sure the colour scheme is challengin but if I can get the body to look like that with a two tone, then I am SURE I can get the seats looking like that too.

Anyway,... back to the seats, regarding the Testors, no...Noone in SA sells that. I have to import it if I need it.

[gabbadude]

Ok, here is the next step... Stripped, prepped and ready for Priming again.

[gpz900ra7]

Hi, if you want your seats red/ black, paint them red first then just hand paint the black on. I've found out through my own failures that if you use enamels to brush paint it's best to thin them ever so slightly, that way they flow a lot better and you don't get any brush marks. If you get a very fine, fine liner pen just draw around the edges of where you want the black paint to be then just paint up to that line, again I've found this works very good and if you're careful none of the black paint bleeds on to the other colour in your case that would be red. Try it on an old seat you'll see what I mean.