painting tip for auto modelers

Feb 07, 2008 9 Replies

if you're trying to duplicate 1955 Ford Neptune Green, sensun blue shampoo looks about right. (guess where I was when I figure this out) needed small touchup to existing paint job, mixed some up with Future. so far, it looks OK.


on 2/7/2008 12:55 PM z said the following:

Do you mean Selsun Blue shampoo? Which one? Dandruff shampoo, moisturizing dandruff shampoo, or medicated shampoo?

Hay Bill you are a real rectal orifice

yeah, that's the one. whatever variety. looks like I should have put more "pigment" in with the future, but it's better than it was.

i realized every product in the bathroom is some shade of aqua/ turquoise. the selsun "blue", the body wash, the shaving gel, the toothpaste, even the bar of Lava soap. though i wouldn't paint with it.

I see I was wrong, Neptune Blue was listed as a Ford color for 1955, but this here says it's Thunderbird Blue. It's the same color, anyway.

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A walmart's clearance special on a prepainted revell metal kit. came complete with a tube of glue, though the plastic parts were pretty much snap.

Huh? What? Is it April already? I have stop hibernating in the winter.... :-)

Peteski

Don't get the Selsun Blue with conditioner. It's the colour of Pepto Bismol.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Lava soap is blue now? It used to be red.

false alarm, back to the cave, yogi. no pickanick baskets or tourists to eat yet.

I did come up with a tip for those of us who have purchased one of R-M's die-cast kits. I have the "Vanishing Point" Challenger and as it is a unibody design the engine bay should be the same colour as the body of the car. The body is not white, it is an ivory. I found I had a can of Krylon Gloss Ivory and happily, it matched almost perfectly. The project is moving along slowly but it is moving!

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Thank you Mr. Ranger Sir! I can sure use couple more months of sleep. Wake me up on April 1st.

Peteski-bear

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