GEdwardJones Posted April 7, 2003 Report Share Posted April 7, 2003 This isn't really about guitars (but it could be, pickups, pickguards and the like). My wife and I have a friend who, when spending the night at someone else's home seems to *always* find a way to fall down and hit her head. This lead to a joke that she needs a helmet (with hot rod flams, natch) when she travels. Well, I went to the local used sports gear emporium and grabbed a hockey helmet for $12, my plan being to paint it burgandy with gold flames. So here's the question, has anyone had any luck painting plastics and if so, what did you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syxxstring Posted April 7, 2003 Report Share Posted April 7, 2003 Go to your local hobby shop. they have paints us rc nuts use for lexan. my fav is the fascolor.(waterbased airbrush paints). its made by parma. the pactra paints are cool too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEdwardJones Posted April 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2003 These come in spray cans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChandlerPelhams Posted April 7, 2003 Report Share Posted April 7, 2003 ooo, i just saw this commercial for a new type of paint that is made specially for painting plastics, i forget the name of it offhand, but if you ask a home depot or lowes, they will probably know what your talking about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 7, 2003 Report Share Posted April 7, 2003 ooo, i just saw this commercial for a new type of paint that is made specially for painting plastics, i forget the name of it offhand, but if you ask a home depot or lowes, they will probably know what your talking about It's a new product called Krylon Fusion, they also have a contest going, with a chance to win a Mitsubishi Digital Big Screen TV and other stuff. Oh and yes it is only available in spray cans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveK Posted April 7, 2003 Report Share Posted April 7, 2003 Will it work for pickups??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGM Guitars Posted April 7, 2003 Report Share Posted April 7, 2003 If you are doing it mostly for a joke, and just want an easy to use aerosol plastic paint, just buy some Testors model paint in spray cans from a hobby store or walmart or something. Even just standard plasticote or krylon will work. If you want a pro finish, use Base coat Clear coat automotive paints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 8, 2003 Report Share Posted April 8, 2003 :o I forgot about the good ol Testor's, made for plastic for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEdwardJones Posted April 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2003 Yes, mostly for a joke, but I don't want the paint to peel off in 30 seconds. I totally forgot about Testor's and also I wasn't too familiar with it in spray cans. Mostly I remember the little fingernail polish like bottles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syxxstring Posted April 8, 2003 Report Share Posted April 8, 2003 The pactra paints come in spray cans. The Parma paints do not. I really like the Parmas though because they are watter based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicdr Posted April 16, 2003 Report Share Posted April 16, 2003 The Testors enamel spray paints work really well to swirl with also.They also have quite a few metallic colors to choose from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john Posted April 16, 2003 Report Share Posted April 16, 2003 if youre not using cans, you can always get a plasticer additive to add to your paint. Ive seen this stuff work , its great. We spilled some of the paint with the plasticiser in it on the floor and the next day it was like pure rubber! If you want to work from spray cans ,then i cant help you there! , sorry John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEdwardJones Posted April 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2003 I used some paint I got from Wal-Mart. Since it had a helmet as the example I figured I'd be safe (and it's color changing too, wooo wooo). Yeah, ok, first off the cans are poorly designed. More paint comes out the top than comes out of the nozzle. I thought I might have just gotten a bum can but so far both the primer, the color-change and the completely unrelated can of black I bought have ALL shown this problem. Then the paint kept pulling off the helmet when I was masking off the flames, even though I let it sit for 24 hours in my bone dry, 90 degree garage for the better part of 36 hours. *sigh* I never had these problems with painting wood. I just hope that all the paint doesn't pull off when I unmask the flames tonight (if it doesn't the helmet is going to look bad ass). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted April 17, 2003 Report Share Posted April 17, 2003 was it krylon?krylon has the worst tip design!your lucky it didn't stick in the open position,they do that alot.keep a bucket handy to throw it in just in case! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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