Kyosho Beetle Custom Paint

[WickedFog]

Starting our Kyosho Beetle build. Still trying to decide on the paint scheme, but so far I'm thinking black. Breydon says yellow. So I guess we are going to end up with a bumblebee.

Body trimmed, sanded, cleaned, and the window masks are done.

Breydon and I talked a bit. This is going to get a tear-off paint job. Yellow on the front, with a black paint job tearing off of it. I have never done one before, so it will be a learning experience. I'm going to try to get a practice piece done today. Here's an example...

 

[Lukedavis]

It's Looking good!

 

[WickedFog]

Decided to just go with a splash of yellow over a black body. Not sure if I am going to paint the depressions in the hood yellow or not. I am going to do yellow tinted headlights with LED's though.

 

[Lukedavis]

tha

Decided to just go with a splash of yellow over a black body. Not sure if I am going to paint the depressions in the hood yellow or not. I am going to do yellow tinted headlights with LED's though.
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that thing is gonna look sick

Decided to just go with a splash of yellow over a black body. Not sure if I am going to paint the depressions in the hood yellow or not. I am going to do yellow tinted headlights with LED's though.
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Also, do you think that a complete XMAXX truck with everything included is a good deal for 300$?

 

[WickedFog]

Also, do you think that a complete XMAXX truck with everything included is a good deal for 300$?

It's a good deal for about $800 if it's in good shape. So yeah, $300 is a steal.

 

[ahr43]

Looking good, Kev. Know Brandon is liking it too.

One of these first days a RC Bug will get done in the shop here. Collect them in die cast 1/64 scale. Have plenty of samples to choose a design from.

Anxious to see you guys finished product. Gonna be killer. Cheers. 'AC'

 

[WickedFog]

Thanks AC. I haven't been feeling too good these past few days, so it is going slow. Added a few more torn areas to the mask. I think this is it for masking. The rest of the design will be done with sponsor decals after the paint work is done.

 

[ahr43]

Hope you're feeling better soon, Kevin. Masking looks good. Sometimes you just have to step back for a while. 'AC'

 

[Doom!]

Kev, Hope you feel better, we are still getting over our colds and it was a wasted 4 day weekend for us.

 

[WickedFog]

Kev, Hope you feel better, we are still getting over our colds and it was a wasted 4 day weekend for us.

Yeah, I am feeling as good as I'm gonna get. My right knee is going out on me, and making it more difficult to get around. It is what it is though.

 

[Chubaka]

It's a good deal for about $800 if it's in good shape. So yeah, $300 is a steal.

For 300 it may literally be a steal.

Beetle is looking good. can't wait to see the paint.

 

[WickedFog]

Decided to go with pearescent Faskolor paints from Parma. Using a charcoal for the main body, and I'll have to come up with a mixture of yellow with a dot of orange to match the wheels. The yellow I have is a tad too bright. The Createx candy yellow is for the headlights.

 

[WickedFog]

Started with a light anti-bleed dusting around the masks. Then a light coat, paying particular attention to hard to spray areas, like inside the lips of the wing and headlight buckets. Then I went back over with a full light coat, followed by a medium coat. Gonna give it one more coat, then peel the yellow masks. So far, the masks held up great.

 

[Greywolf74]

Shes starting to take shape

 

[Turner421]

Is that a small paint booth you built? The beetle is going to look sweet when you’re done for sure!

 

[Lukedavis]

For 300 it may literally be a steal.

Beetle is looking good. can't wait to see the paint.

Yeah lol that ain't gonna happen now the guy called me a broke a** ni****. Ain't gonna happen now.

 

[WickedFog]

Is that a small paint booth you built? The beetle is going to look sweet when you’re done for sure!

It is one I bought off ebay. Got a good deal on it. It's just big enough for 1/10 buggy bodies.

Got the yellow done. Matched up the wheel yellow pretty good.

 

[WickedFog]

Still have to spray the headlights tomorrow, but I couldn't resist pulling the film off to see how the pearl charcoal came out. It's purdy! Got the mirror chrome painted on the headlight buckets too.

 

[WickedFog]

Got some of the finicky stuff done.

Still need to figure out which of these to use

 

[WickedFog]

Not really liking this yet

Think I am going to wait to get the body mounted to decal it. But I did get the necessary Kyosho Racing Team decal on.