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• Paint Jobs
  • Do you mean the swirly stuff? *NM*
    • Re: Do you mean the swirly stuff?
      • Len do mean like these..... PICS
        • On both of these all I did was using Gold or Silver as a base, take watered down black brush WB paint around what you want or satisfied with, let it dry shoot Dupli-color Metalcast paint and spray away. *NM*
        • That’s not what I mean Frank. I will try to find a photo. *NM*
  • Didn't Tim Boyd do an article on this in SAE years ago? *NM*
  • Hank Borger (from the old Car Model magazine) called them 'Swirl-a-delic' paint jobs. Did a 'how to' in Car Model mag back in the early '70's. *NM*
    • There's the Swirladelic as you mentioned and also the marbleized system such as house of color has (shown in pic). *NM* *PIC*
      • Yes. I forgot about that! I used that on this build from the mid '70's. *NM* *PIC*
  • You may be talking about the technique where you partially mix a few colors, then submerge the item with as little disturbance as you can, then SLOWLY raise it up out of the paint without touching the side of the object you want for the finish paint job. I do not know the
    • When I said partially mix I mean just gently swirl the colors together without actually blending them. The paint surface will be close to what ends up on the surface of whatever you dip into the paint. *NM*
    • You got my curiosity going so I did a youtube search and here is an example how to for a guitar body. Special paint is dripped onto water deep enough to submerge your item, then swirled, then SLOWLY dip and raise the item, etc. See the *NM* *LINK*
    • Here is a youtube video with the swirl technique on a model car *NM* *LINK*
    • Swirl technique is also called hydro dipping. I suggest you do numerous searches to get a good overall understanding of what is needed and how to do it. Some look more like marble and others get really phycadelic Have fun! *NM*
    • Okay, I got caught up having fun looking around and found this one using spray paints. *LINK*
  • And there is also Hydrographic Dipping. I've seen it used on real car/bike parts. Probably could be applied to models too. *NM* *LINK*