Paint help on camaro

[GvEman]

I have a revell monogram camaro z-28 rs ´69.
and i am wondering how to best paint the grill... I want it to look like this.

but th whole part is in chrome.... and i have none BMF or what it is called. please help...

[labandabonnot]

Well, I don't know if I can help... I don't know the kit.

But you could try to carefully mask the parts that must stay chromed (by using masking tape or liquid mask) and spray over the part a layer of semi gloss black automotive paint, and then (I suppose) mask the part that must stay black, and add the body color where needed...

Not an easy work of masking/painting, but can surely be done, taking time... With surely taking great care when removing the masking tape, as it can easily take with it "pieces" of paint (chrome plating isn't a good primer at all!)

By the way: nice choice!

[GvEman]

okej thanks for the help
i wil try it but it is not that color i am going to use.. but if i had ordered the color today i promise you it had ben that one.. on my car i am planing to use tamiya metalic red... the color will be like box stock... but not the rest

[labandabonnot]

Mmmmh! Can't wait to see it done!

[GvEman]

not me eighter:P but a other question, i have the tamiya surface pirmer gray one. must i sand it down with 2000, before painting?

[ales]

Can you take a pic of the actual part?

Perhaps you could paint the whole thing black, preferably with some soft paint like enamel, and then use some rubbing compound to carefully rub the paint off the areas you want to be chrome.

[Afrofent]

If it turn's out like that, then I can't wait to see it done.

[GvEman]

thanks for the help i have alredy painted the front part:P but now i am wondering if i must sand the primer down before i paint the color i have shoosen..
My camaro will look some thing like that... but not green... it will be red with those tow white stripes. i think it will look good

[GvEman]

have painted the camaro now... it looks beautifull! but i need to re make the hood... it fell and the paint had not dried yet... so i got a hood with spots withoute paint..so i need to sand it down and prime it and then re paint:P pain in the ass!

[MrMikey83]

OK< so the grille is painted in primer. At this time, I would go ahead and use polish to rub down the primer on the high spots. Then mask off the grill and paint the body color. After that, maske off everything else and paint the grille. Use polish again and rub away any paint that got on the parts that should be chromed.

If you dont polish the primer down first, when you go to rub through the paint to the chrome, you will be able to see the primer at the edges where you rubbed it off.
~Mike

[GvEman]

okay thanx! damn that i alredy have painted the grill red...:/ will se how it looks when i take the maskings of

[GvEman]

i just took the maskings away from the front and i saw that it..... looks werry good:P

[primera man]

If the grill was all in chrome you could have painted the whole thing body colour then using a small soft cloth, wipe away the paint on the chrome before it dried as the paint wont stick to chrome very well.
Then carefully masked off the grill to paint the black last.

[GvEman]

okay... thanks peimera man now i knosw to the next time... but you know the lights is verry smal and they are like the ones on the picture... so i thnk that the paint had stuck in the smal ribbs in the lights...

but thanks everybody! pictures of the painted body with front and shasis soon... i just need to get a camera. and i must re paint that fucking hood!!!!

[dveus]

I have just today bought that very same kit, do you have any more reference pics? especially of the motor and engine bay?

Thanks in advance
Mat.