Tire painting

[Rolex]

I want to paint the lettering on my big show tires, and I need to know if there's a special paint, or can I use the Parma white?
I know that some paints will bleed through and turn brown on black rubber.

 

[jon2]

I wanted to do that before but I just didn't want to be doing it over to keep the look.

Here is what I found.

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/hottires.html

Hope it helps.

 

[SMaxxin]

Pretty much the same as Jon linked but I went to Wal-Mart and bought a paint pen for touching up white letter tires on 1:1 cars. It works great and only cost a few bucks.

 

[Rolex]

Excellent link, jon. I never knew that existed. Tomorrow I'll hit the auto stores to see what size the point is.
I gave the 4 tires to an artist friend to try out the Parma by brush. If these come with a good point then I'll do them myself rather than pay him for his time.
I'm now leaning towards the yellow.

Well, I pass NAPA and O'Reilly's on the way to Wally World.

 

[jon2]

Excellent link, jon. I never knew that existed. Tomorrow I'll hit the auto stores to see what size the point is.
I gave the 4 tires to an artist friend to try out the Parma by brush. If these come with a good point then I'll do them myself rather than pay him for his time.
I'm now leaning towards the yellow.

Well, I pass NAPA and O'Reilly's on the way to Wally World.

I tried something similar on my 1:1 Acura Integra. It was cool to get yellow and red lettering. Clean the surface well and the dry before you apply. Mine lasted about 2 weeks but that was when it rained a lot. About 4 years + ago.

 

[Rolex]

Those big Imex tires are so new they're still sticky and wow do they smell fresh. I'll be cleaning them with alcohol first. They'll just be show tires because I sure don't want to re-letter them after each day of running.

 

[NCNitro]

I used pactra paint, a 10/0 brush and a lot of patience. I had a set of HG aluminum rims and a new set of tires that I figured I would use just for body pics. I did the ones in this pic a few years ago and they still look really good, but they never get run, hell the tires aint even glued to the rims. It's tough to see them in this pic so I'll try and get a better pic of the tires up close.

 

[Lessen]

I used a rolling method. I took a hard cone buffer from my dremel and dipped the tip in yellow model paint (enamel). I rolled off the excess then rolled it over the letters. Took like three coats to look nice. I imagine your letters are much bigger than these though. You'd want something larger to roll.

 

[NCNitro]

Damn, you did that on 1/18 scale! Nice job man! I bet that method would work really well on 1/10 t/c tire lettering.

 

[Rolex]

Beautiful tires... both of you. Mine are huge with big lettering and a couple of stars, all the way around. It would be an endless process with a brush, that's why I subcontracted them out.
When I get back here with one of those painting pens I'll make the final decision. It just might be the final bling.

 

[ImBroken]

I used a paint pen on my Savage tires awhile back... Looked great, but didn't last long...

 

[Rolex]

Well, for future reference, Parma doesn't work. He did 2 letters last night just as a test. When I saw it today it really looked great. TOTALLY bright white. Well, each letter peeled off as a sheet. No stick at all.
I went to NAPA and they had crayon markers and wet markers. This one has a rattle ball in it with a hard fiber tip. It smells like a laquer base.
I'm going to do a couple of letters now and see if it holds up.
and yeah.....it's yellow, NC.:yes: