how does one do a fade with rattle cans?

[majin]

hey hey, were waiting on my sons body to get in and weve been using ai to help us get ideas on paint.
we want to do a few colors and try to get as close as we can to these genral ideas. keeping in mind,
I've only painted 3 bodies
one was a purple candy that came out midnight black..
then the green color change paint, but it was also just one color with a little black on engine. nothing crazy,
the other bug body, which i did 4 colors and tried a few things like taping off areas and taping designs to be a different color and what not.
but its still all really just been applying a few layers of paint straight on really basic.

we want to fade a gold into a purple and vice versa, i can't find a video on how to achieve this. i find some that are air brush related. do i NEED an airbrush for this type of painting?
the way they fade and blend and arent just a straight line from me taping off one section for purple and one for gold?

 

[Chubaka]

hey hey, were waiting on my sons body to get in and weve been using ai to help us get ideas on paint.
we want to do a few colors and try to get as close as we can to these genral ideas. keeping in mind,
I've only painted 3 bodies
one was a purple candy that came out midnight black..
then the green color change paint, but it was also just one color with a little black on engine. nothing crazy,
the other bug body, which i did 4 colors and tried a few things like taping off areas and taping designs to be a different color and what not.
but its still all really just been applying a few layers of paint straight on really basic.

we want to fade a gold into a purple and vice versa, i can't find a video on how to achieve this. i find some that are air brush related. do i NEED an airbrush for this type of painting?
the way they fade and blend and arent just a straight line from me taping off one section for purple and one for gold?

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Just got donne driving a truck almost identical to the first. Really digging that paint! Just makes the lawyers job harder.

Proline also makes another silverado....
https://www.amainhobbies.com/prolin...i245GEp8Ya60tvlNemM7hY3Oa4NNI-nRoCyhIQAvD_BwE

If it were me I'd use newspaper or tape to keep the opposite end clean and the more you want to fade, the farther away you hold the can.

Practice on 2 liter bottles first.

 

[WickedFog]

hey hey, were waiting on my sons body to get in and weve been using ai to help us get ideas on paint.
we want to do a few colors and try to get as close as we can to these genral ideas. keeping in mind,
I've only painted 3 bodies
one was a purple candy that came out midnight black..
then the green color change paint, but it was also just one color with a little black on engine. nothing crazy,
the other bug body, which i did 4 colors and tried a few things like taping off areas and taping designs to be a different color and what not.
but its still all really just been applying a few layers of paint straight on really basic.

we want to fade a gold into a purple and vice versa, i can't find a video on how to achieve this. i find some that are air brush related. do i NEED an airbrush for this type of painting?
the way they fade and blend and arent just a straight line from me taping off one section for purple and one for gold?

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That's just color change paint man. But I don't know if that specific color is available in lexan paint.
https://spazstix.com/collections/color-change

That actually looks like two colors of it. So maybe do a fade with two of the Spaz Stix colors.

I could be wrong. I thought it was color change, but I see that is two different trucks.

 

[Beer_Goggles_RC]

I think what you’re looking for is more of a single can chameleon paint rather than a fade. For that check out SpazStix

As far as doing a fade, there’s really no need for tape, just let the overspray do its job. I would only work one color at a time though. Start with your darkest color and then work your way towards your lightest. Then to get the color to pop a little bit more go over it with a white backing once you’re done.

 

[majin]

Just got donne driving a truck almost identical to the first. Really digging that paint! Just makes the lawyers job harder.

Proline also makes another silverado....
https://www.amainhobbies.com/prolin...i245GEp8Ya60tvlNemM7hY3Oa4NNI-nRoCyhIQAvD_BwE

If it were me I'd use newspaper or tape to keep the opposite end clean and the more you want to fade, the farther away you hold the can.

Practice on 2 liter bottles first.

so id just spray the gold from a distance and then the purple and let them mix before i back it? treating the 2 cans like its just one? i think I'm seeing what your saying

That's just color change paint man. But I don't know if that specific color is available in lexan paint.
https://spazstix.com/collections/color-change

That actually looks like two colors of it. So maybe do a fade with two of the Spaz Stix colors.

I could be wrong. I thought it was color change, but I see that is two different trucks.

I've used their color change paints its on the 2 bugs, but i wasn't thinking about applying both cans at "same time" and just letting it naturally blend, i thought the colors would mix instead of staying seperate i don tknow why i was thinking this

 

[Greywolf74]

hey hey, were waiting on my sons body to get in and weve been using ai to help us get ideas on paint.
we want to do a few colors and try to get as close as we can to these genral ideas. keeping in mind,
I've only painted 3 bodies
one was a purple candy that came out midnight black..
then the green color change paint, but it was also just one color with a little black on engine. nothing crazy,
the other bug body, which i did 4 colors and tried a few things like taping off areas and taping designs to be a different color and what not.
but its still all really just been applying a few layers of paint straight on really basic.

we want to fade a gold into a purple and vice versa, i can't find a video on how to achieve this. i find some that are air brush related. do i NEED an airbrush for this type of painting?
the way they fade and blend and arent just a straight line from me taping off one section for purple and one for gold?

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Its hard to do a fade with rattlecans. You can do it but it wont look as good as something thats airbrushed. the trick is distance from what you're spraying, let the faded area get about half a coat from overspray before moving on to the second color that will fill in the rest of the space.

 

[majin]

I think what you’re looking for is more of a single can chameleon paint rather than a fade. For that check out SpazStix

As far as doing a fade, there’s really no need for tape, just let the overspray do its job. I would only work one color at a time though. Start with your darkest color and then work your way towards your lightest. Then to get the color to pop a little bit more go over it with a white backing once you’re done.

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yeah exactly like the bfade youve got from green to blue, thats just overspray? o man i made this way harder in my head than it is huh lol

Its hard to do a fade with rattlecans. You can do it but it wont look as good as something thats airbrushed. the trick is distance from what you're spraying, let the faded area get about half a coat before moving on to the second color that will fill in the rest of the space.

i can't justify an airbrush kit yet lol, yet is key word,
so distance and light coats

I think what you’re looking for is more of a single can chameleon paint rather than a fade. For that check out SpazStix

As far as doing a fade, there’s really no need for tape, just let the overspray do its job. I would only work one color at a time though. Start with your darkest color and then work your way towards your lightest. Then to get the color to pop a little bit more go over it with a white backing once you’re done.

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i couldnt find the color change that i wanted for this on spaz stix, I've also not managed to get the color change paints to do their job correctly I'm trrying a mirror chrome backer before the final gloss black backer on this truck ,
i really would like to just apply and get a nice purple gold color change but they all have other colors in them, should i look at other companies for different color change paints? I've only used stix so far

 

[Beer_Goggles_RC]

yeah exactly like the bfade youve got from green to blue, thats just overspray? o man i made this way harder in my head than it is huh lol

Yep this was just done with Tamiya rattle cans from back to front. Once I finished the black I did the blue. Then one I finished the blue I did the yellow. Then a white backing. No taping other than window masks and holding the can roughly 10” from the body.

If that green color all over is what you’re going for then I’d two a very light coat of blue then a very light coat of yellow and from there you can determine which color you need more of and alternate back and forth until you’re done. Just be sure to let each color dry before starting the next and keep your coats even over the whole body

 

[Chubaka]

I forgot. A hairdryer is your painting best friend. And once again practice on soda bottles. Get your technique down and your color mixing to your liking.

 

[majin]

I forgot. A hairdryer is your painting best friend. And once again practice on soda bottles. Get your technique down and your color mixing to your liking.

i saved all these small pieces of lexan to practice on..... i completely forgot about using a 2 liter!!!!!! omg lol that alone is worth so much.
in this post I've learned more about painting in 15 mins than I've gotten from 10-14 videos on painting lol.

 

[Chubaka]

i saved all these small pieces of lexan to practice on..... i completely forgot about using a 2 liter!!!!!! omg lol that alone is worth so much.
in this post I've learned more about painting in 15 mins than I've gotten from 10-14 videos on painting lol.

The best painting videos I've seen is by xxxmain. YouTube user yoyomany2k had them years ago. Think I too may do the body above. That just looks too good.

 

[WickedFog]

yeah exactly like the bfade youve got from green to blue, thats just overspray? o man i made this way harder in my head than it is huh lol


i can't justify an airbrush kit yet lol, yet is key word,
so distance and light coats

It will naturally fade because the edges of the spray pattern will thin out, allowing the next color to show through.

If you could zoom way into a paint job, you would see it looks like pixels on an old tv screen. Dots upon dots. At the edges, these dots are more sparse, leaving areas with no paint in between. The next paint will show in those empty areas, causing a fade ftom one color to the next.

I did this in a paint program on my phone with a brush setup like a rattle can.

First pass

Second pass

Third pass

Repeat with blue

Added a third color

 

[majin]

The best painting videos I've seen is by xxxmain. YouTube user yoyomany2k had them years ago. Think I too may do the body above. That just looks too good.

I'm gonna check them put heres a few of the others we saved as ideas

 

[Beer_Goggles_RC]

I'm gonna check them put heres a few of the others we saved as ideas
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The dawn soap trick would be good for this one

 

[Chubaka]

The dawn soap trick would be good for this one

Glad it dawned on you.

 

[majin]

The dawn soap trick would be good for this one

o snap i told my son wed have to wiggle the tape but wow thats so much smarter! i alsways see em gob it one in vast amounts and snap now that I'm thinking they also spray multiple colors and USE THE OVERSPRAY TO FADE!!!! man i brain farted on that wow

 

[WickedFog]

@majin
This is worth a watch

But I suspect you've already seen it

 

[majin]

@majin
This is worth a watch

But I suspect you've already seen it

I've memorized it he is cool to listen too lol like a modern bob ross, i tried the carbon fiber and finger print one butr i goofed and got pin stripe tape which didnt want to bend, i ordered the crepe tape he uses for my next fingerprint job lol

so if i do this id
1 spray some light coats of candy pruple on the bottom 1/4
skip the center panel
hit the roof and hood with darker coats of candy purple
hit the front with thick coats of candy rootbeer or gold
hit the center panel with gold over spraying a little into the purples on both top and bottom until center line is golden
then back with mirror chrome
then back it with gloss black backer
this in theory would achieve my goals skill level notwithstanding?

 

[CertifiedMike]

Youtube and I are at odds right niw so I can't see if this has been posted already but Exocaged on youtube does 2 different dawn soap vids with good results.
He SLAMS the paint on one over another and blasts it all down with water while paint is still wet.
I never saw anyone "gorilla paint" a body before but he nails it!

 

[Greywolf74]

You can get thin pieces of lexan to practice on.
LINK 1
LINK 2