I just received another case of Artin Stockers.
Thought it would be nice to do a pictorial on how to strip - paint an decorate an Artin stocker.
If you are interested, check back often, to see how the next step went.
Step 1
Buy an Artin Stocker
Step 2
Cover your track so the guys don't get upset with you because the track has a film of paint dust covering it at race time.
Step 3
Disaasemble the cars.
I use a screwdriver and a Dremel with a cut-off wheel.
Don't lose your screws, stick them to the magnet, screw them into the posts or put them in a jar. Don't let the just lay on your work bench.
Step 4
Take them into the kitchen when your wife is out playng bridge and wash them with warm soapy water. This will remove the oil/film that is left by the mold release compound.
This is an important step, it will help to ensure that your paint adheres to the plastic. Some people have been know to even lightly sand the surface.
Step 5
The cars in these pictures are still wet from washing, next I will wipe them dry.
Step 6
If one of your kids is around, involve them, teach them how it is done. I will be taking my Grandson with me for each of these steps. In fact he took all the cars apart. Funny how they love to take things apart and you don't even have to teach them. It may take a little more coaching on my part when it is time to put them back together.
During this process I know I will risk getting labeled an "anal so and so" but then look at the finished product and you may realize each step is important.
Little pop quiz before we go any further.
What did the Fish say when he hit a wall?
Hint: This is something you will say if you don't follow all the steps.
This question will be answered in the next edition in the painters forum.
OK - it is now 2 hours later, my Grandson and I laid down 3 coats of primer on all cars. No it didn't take 2 hours, we did other things in between. (Mow the lawn) Seriously, try to find something to do between steps, many projects are ruined because you rush into the next step before you or the car are ready.
Step 7
I wipe the car down with a cheesecloth, this picks up any dust particles, don't wipe with a lot of pressue you will actually transfer the "cheesy" stuff to the body and that will ruin the paint.
3 Coats of primer, first coat is put on very light. By puting down a very light coat it allows you to look for dust particles and wipe them out.
Why 3 coats? You are laying down a barrier - something to protect the Styrene Plastic from the "hot" thinner that will be in your lacquer paint ( I am going to try and convince you to use lacquer, later in this excerise)
I did a case of cars (3 coats) with 1 can of paint.
Wal Mart Equipment Grey Primer (they just lowered the price and it is now $.96, that is a $.03 savings. I don't use this Wal Mart because I like Wal mart and I don't use it because of the low price. (In fact I think it is horrible to think that someone could sell that can of paint for less then a buck and make a profit. How much did the manufacturer get paid for this paint maybe $.70 and they have the cost of materials in that price, but the ugliest thought is the thought that some worker has to be slaving away for pennies, but that would be a political discussion and you are not here for that)
I use the Wal mart Primer because I like the adhesive qualities of that paint!!
Alright - alright - I heard you - I heard you.
What did the Fish say when he HIT a Wall?
DAM!!!!!
That is what you will say if you mess up a perfectly good body, because you got step 5 wrong and had your wife helping instead of one of your kids. I jest of course, my wife must be very supportive of my addiction, I mean hobby, if she wasn't, you would only see 10 Artin in this picture.
Q: How many car salesmen does it take to change a light bulb?
A: I'm going to work this out on my calculator, and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
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Yes you are right, thank you, I stand corrected, it is called craze when the paint attacks the styrene plastic.
It is now Sunday afternoon, and Derek and I have let the bodies sit while we did other things. Such as: Thanks to frankfromNY for the tickets, we went to the National Street Rod Association Hot Rod show at the Fairgrounds. That is a place to see some paint jobs from true artists.
Then we watched Shackleford, amazing story about an amazing man.
We decided to lay down some color. We are not sure how the final paint will be on all of the cars yet, but we know there will be some all black, some solid white and all red cars that we will need for sure.
Step 8 Prepare your airbrush. We ran some thinner through it to make sure it was clean.
Step 9 Prepare your paints. We mixed some red and a couple of others. Make sure your paint is thin enough, you want it to flow on smoothly and evenly with a glossy finish.
I use whatever brand of Lacquer Lowes (I know shop at Agent Orange) carries to thin my lacquer.
Step 10 I broke out my trusty Iwata for todays session, gave the Paasche a rest. I have a regulator on my compressor and I like to spray at 18 30 lbs of pressure. (I crank it up when I am doing a deep cleaning of the brush)
Step 11 Lay down some paint. Airbrush 8 to 10 inches from your work. I like to use my Tamiya Paint stand, it frees up both my hands and allows me to rotate my work. (by the way I sell this great little tool - I discount them and your cost is $18.00) Remember speed is for the track, take your time and spray smooth consistent coats of paint. Allow at least 15 minutes between coats. It is not true that a fast paint jobs makes a fast car.
Step 12 Set the body aside and grab the next one (unless you are only doing one, then you are done)
Step 13 Clean your airbrush, do a good job of cleaning, the airbrush will last your lifetime if you take care of it. Clean your paint cap and clean the top of the bottle and cap it and put it away.
Step 14 Let it sit, I know you are anxious to move on to the next step, dont rush, go work on a chassis it will take your mind off your body, or go watch a movie with your wife and get your mind on her. Seriously let the paint gas and dry before your handle it.
One of the yellow cars is DAY GLO Yellow. It is a very bright yellow paint. This car had to have a white basecoat.
The orange car on the paint stand was painted orange and then I put a coat of clear pearl over it.
2 of the white cars are Pearl white and one of Blue cars is Cobalt pearl blue
Next step will be figure out how they will be decorated, which sponsor/driver will they have. We will go thru the steps of masking a body for a second color.
Keep this in mind and keep it light
NEW DAY
MONDAY MORNING
Derek has returned home, I am now on my own to get these cars finished. his parewnts said something about school and took him home.
Any Packer fans or Jarrett fans out there.
Dale jarrett and Brett Farve have a couple of business deals together so this car was a natural.
I chose a paint scheme that was not to difficult. 2 colors - striaght lines.
The tape you use is very important. I use Tamiya masking tape for detail work and I use cheap masking tape to cover large areas. Tamiya is flexible and has the proper adhesion.
One of the dangers here is that your tape will pull up the paint when you remove it.
I also use 3M automotive striping tape, sounds stange but I find that silver is the best tape to use because it seems to be the most flexible.
Step 14
In the pic below -- if you look closely you will see that I masked it with tamiya tape and then filled in the large areas with cheap masking tape. I almost forgot, I always use a burnisher to rub down the edges of my tape. (very important)
Step 15
Another thing to notice is the orange inside the passenger compartment. I have ruined good paint jobs because the paint has come through windows openings on the inside of the car and paint has found it's way to the trunk or hood. To fight that problem, I mask the insde of the body. I just stick some close fitting paper inside and that takes car of that problem.
Step 16
The next pic shows the body after 1 coat of paint.
I use lights coats until I get to the final color coat and then I lay it down as heavy as I dare, without risking paint run.
Remember, if your base coat is enamel, you second coat has to be enamel. Do not spray lacquer over enamel. The opposite is not true, if your base coat is lacquer, your second coat can be enamel.
Step 17
2nd coat and color coat
By the way: I finally got my self a dog.
I named him STAY.
I would call him: "Come here Stay" "Come here Stay"
He finally got confused and left home,
Step 18
Again, please let this car alone for awhile, don't touch, find something else to do. Not to long --- if you were leave the car for a week before you pulled the tape you may find that the glue on the tape has transferred to your body. Now you have a sticky mess on your new paint that is very difficult to remove.
Step 19
The next step is very important and requires some finesse.
You need to pull the tape. I am not sure how to explain this to make sure you understand the process and what have found to work.
I have pulled tape and pulled the paint up with it many times. (some people take longer to learn) Do not pull the tape straight up. Pull the tape back across itself, it is more like peeling then pulling. This is the safest way to remove your tape.
If you prepared the body for paint correctly and laid down even coats of paints using quality paint and if you used good tape and peeled it off correctly you could have a multicolored car that looks as good as this.
Nice crisp lines, good color separtion.
Now you have a car with paint that is at 2 different heights. The green I just painted is higher then the yellow, so there is a difference in the height where the green and yellow meet.
If you are placing a decal over this it will show the difference in heights.
Step 20
Apply clearcoat, this will help with the height difference when applying decals.
Next we will apply the decals.
So I had to get another dog and I decided to name hem SPOT, well my wife had the carpet cleaners over last thursday and he just dissappeared.
Thought it would be nice to do a pictorial on how to strip - paint an decorate an Artin stocker.
If you are interested, check back often, to see how the next step went.
Step 1
Buy an Artin Stocker
Step 2
Cover your track so the guys don't get upset with you because the track has a film of paint dust covering it at race time.
Step 3
Disaasemble the cars.
I use a screwdriver and a Dremel with a cut-off wheel.
Don't lose your screws, stick them to the magnet, screw them into the posts or put them in a jar. Don't let the just lay on your work bench.
Step 4
Take them into the kitchen when your wife is out playng bridge and wash them with warm soapy water. This will remove the oil/film that is left by the mold release compound.
This is an important step, it will help to ensure that your paint adheres to the plastic. Some people have been know to even lightly sand the surface.
Step 5
The cars in these pictures are still wet from washing, next I will wipe them dry.
Step 6
If one of your kids is around, involve them, teach them how it is done. I will be taking my Grandson with me for each of these steps. In fact he took all the cars apart. Funny how they love to take things apart and you don't even have to teach them. It may take a little more coaching on my part when it is time to put them back together.
During this process I know I will risk getting labeled an "anal so and so" but then look at the finished product and you may realize each step is important.
Little pop quiz before we go any further.
What did the Fish say when he hit a wall?
Hint: This is something you will say if you don't follow all the steps.
This question will be answered in the next edition in the painters forum.
OK - it is now 2 hours later, my Grandson and I laid down 3 coats of primer on all cars. No it didn't take 2 hours, we did other things in between. (Mow the lawn) Seriously, try to find something to do between steps, many projects are ruined because you rush into the next step before you or the car are ready.
Step 7
I wipe the car down with a cheesecloth, this picks up any dust particles, don't wipe with a lot of pressue you will actually transfer the "cheesy" stuff to the body and that will ruin the paint.
3 Coats of primer, first coat is put on very light. By puting down a very light coat it allows you to look for dust particles and wipe them out.
Why 3 coats? You are laying down a barrier - something to protect the Styrene Plastic from the "hot" thinner that will be in your lacquer paint ( I am going to try and convince you to use lacquer, later in this excerise)
I did a case of cars (3 coats) with 1 can of paint.
Wal Mart Equipment Grey Primer (they just lowered the price and it is now $.96, that is a $.03 savings. I don't use this Wal Mart because I like Wal mart and I don't use it because of the low price. (In fact I think it is horrible to think that someone could sell that can of paint for less then a buck and make a profit. How much did the manufacturer get paid for this paint maybe $.70 and they have the cost of materials in that price, but the ugliest thought is the thought that some worker has to be slaving away for pennies, but that would be a political discussion and you are not here for that)
I use the Wal mart Primer because I like the adhesive qualities of that paint!!
Alright - alright - I heard you - I heard you.
What did the Fish say when he HIT a Wall?
DAM!!!!!
That is what you will say if you mess up a perfectly good body, because you got step 5 wrong and had your wife helping instead of one of your kids. I jest of course, my wife must be very supportive of my addiction, I mean hobby, if she wasn't, you would only see 10 Artin in this picture.
Q: How many car salesmen does it take to change a light bulb?
A: I'm going to work this out on my calculator, and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
--------------------------------------------------
Yes you are right, thank you, I stand corrected, it is called craze when the paint attacks the styrene plastic.
It is now Sunday afternoon, and Derek and I have let the bodies sit while we did other things. Such as: Thanks to frankfromNY for the tickets, we went to the National Street Rod Association Hot Rod show at the Fairgrounds. That is a place to see some paint jobs from true artists.
Then we watched Shackleford, amazing story about an amazing man.
We decided to lay down some color. We are not sure how the final paint will be on all of the cars yet, but we know there will be some all black, some solid white and all red cars that we will need for sure.
Step 8 Prepare your airbrush. We ran some thinner through it to make sure it was clean.
Step 9 Prepare your paints. We mixed some red and a couple of others. Make sure your paint is thin enough, you want it to flow on smoothly and evenly with a glossy finish.
I use whatever brand of Lacquer Lowes (I know shop at Agent Orange) carries to thin my lacquer.
Step 10 I broke out my trusty Iwata for todays session, gave the Paasche a rest. I have a regulator on my compressor and I like to spray at 18 30 lbs of pressure. (I crank it up when I am doing a deep cleaning of the brush)
Step 11 Lay down some paint. Airbrush 8 to 10 inches from your work. I like to use my Tamiya Paint stand, it frees up both my hands and allows me to rotate my work. (by the way I sell this great little tool - I discount them and your cost is $18.00) Remember speed is for the track, take your time and spray smooth consistent coats of paint. Allow at least 15 minutes between coats. It is not true that a fast paint jobs makes a fast car.
Step 12 Set the body aside and grab the next one (unless you are only doing one, then you are done)
Step 13 Clean your airbrush, do a good job of cleaning, the airbrush will last your lifetime if you take care of it. Clean your paint cap and clean the top of the bottle and cap it and put it away.
Step 14 Let it sit, I know you are anxious to move on to the next step, dont rush, go work on a chassis it will take your mind off your body, or go watch a movie with your wife and get your mind on her. Seriously let the paint gas and dry before your handle it.
One of the yellow cars is DAY GLO Yellow. It is a very bright yellow paint. This car had to have a white basecoat.
The orange car on the paint stand was painted orange and then I put a coat of clear pearl over it.
2 of the white cars are Pearl white and one of Blue cars is Cobalt pearl blue
Next step will be figure out how they will be decorated, which sponsor/driver will they have. We will go thru the steps of masking a body for a second color.
Keep this in mind and keep it light
NEW DAY
MONDAY MORNING
Derek has returned home, I am now on my own to get these cars finished. his parewnts said something about school and took him home.
Any Packer fans or Jarrett fans out there.
Dale jarrett and Brett Farve have a couple of business deals together so this car was a natural.
I chose a paint scheme that was not to difficult. 2 colors - striaght lines.
The tape you use is very important. I use Tamiya masking tape for detail work and I use cheap masking tape to cover large areas. Tamiya is flexible and has the proper adhesion.
One of the dangers here is that your tape will pull up the paint when you remove it.
I also use 3M automotive striping tape, sounds stange but I find that silver is the best tape to use because it seems to be the most flexible.
Step 14
In the pic below -- if you look closely you will see that I masked it with tamiya tape and then filled in the large areas with cheap masking tape. I almost forgot, I always use a burnisher to rub down the edges of my tape. (very important)
Step 15
Another thing to notice is the orange inside the passenger compartment. I have ruined good paint jobs because the paint has come through windows openings on the inside of the car and paint has found it's way to the trunk or hood. To fight that problem, I mask the insde of the body. I just stick some close fitting paper inside and that takes car of that problem.
Step 16
The next pic shows the body after 1 coat of paint.
I use lights coats until I get to the final color coat and then I lay it down as heavy as I dare, without risking paint run.
Remember, if your base coat is enamel, you second coat has to be enamel. Do not spray lacquer over enamel. The opposite is not true, if your base coat is lacquer, your second coat can be enamel.
Step 17
2nd coat and color coat
By the way: I finally got my self a dog.
I named him STAY.
I would call him: "Come here Stay" "Come here Stay"
He finally got confused and left home,
Step 18
Again, please let this car alone for awhile, don't touch, find something else to do. Not to long --- if you were leave the car for a week before you pulled the tape you may find that the glue on the tape has transferred to your body. Now you have a sticky mess on your new paint that is very difficult to remove.
Step 19
The next step is very important and requires some finesse.
You need to pull the tape. I am not sure how to explain this to make sure you understand the process and what have found to work.
I have pulled tape and pulled the paint up with it many times. (some people take longer to learn) Do not pull the tape straight up. Pull the tape back across itself, it is more like peeling then pulling. This is the safest way to remove your tape.
If you prepared the body for paint correctly and laid down even coats of paints using quality paint and if you used good tape and peeled it off correctly you could have a multicolored car that looks as good as this.
Nice crisp lines, good color separtion.
Now you have a car with paint that is at 2 different heights. The green I just painted is higher then the yellow, so there is a difference in the height where the green and yellow meet.
If you are placing a decal over this it will show the difference in heights.
Step 20
Apply clearcoat, this will help with the height difference when applying decals.
Next we will apply the decals.
So I had to get another dog and I decided to name hem SPOT, well my wife had the carpet cleaners over last thursday and he just dissappeared.
