1/25th Camaro quickie and another of the GTO

[mlomaka]

All those things can be very agrevating. I have used layers of masking tape to save surounding details and body lines. What I have done with things like hood pins (and even name plates & door handles) is trim it as far down with an exacto knife, sand, and then a little trick to prevent ghosting, bush a thin coat of testors or MM liquid cement over it and wait for it to dry. It will "relax" the plastic so it doesn't reappear. And I just sand it back down again when it is dry. Just a thought, I dont know how factory correct you are trying to make this, but I know 71 Challengers had a rubber (or what ever it is called) bumper option. So you could get away with painting them with the rest of the car. I am doing that on my 71.

[black2002ls]

Originally Posted by mlomaka

All those things can be very agrevating. I have used layers of masking tape to save surounding details and body lines. What I have done with things like hood pins (and even name plates & door handles) is trim it as far down with an exacto knife, sand, and then a little trick to prevent ghosting, bush a thin coat of testors or MM liquid cement over it and wait for it to dry. It will "relax" the plastic so it doesn't reappear. And I just sand it back down again when it is dry. Just a thought, I dont know how factory correct you are trying to make this, but I know 71 Challengers had a rubber (or what ever it is called) bumper option. So you could get away with painting them with the rest of the car. I am doing that on my 71.

I'm definitely going to have to remember that liquid cement tip

[city_ofthe_south]

Originally Posted by mlomaka

All those things can be very agrevating. I have used layers of masking tape to save surounding details and body lines. What I have done with things like hood pins (and even name plates & door handles) is trim it as far down with an exacto knife, sand, and then a little trick to prevent ghosting, bush a thin coat of testors or MM liquid cement over it and wait for it to dry. It will "relax" the plastic so it doesn't reappear. And I just sand it back down again when it is dry. Just a thought, I dont know how factory correct you are trying to make this, but I know 71 Challengers had a rubber (or what ever it is called) bumper option. So you could get away with painting them with the rest of the car. I am doing that on my 71.

ha, there is going to be nothing correct about any of my cars. I'm all about modified and since they're models i'm just doing whatever i think is cool. Since my paint crinkled slightly i took out the 600 grit and knocked it down then gave it another coat ... that ALLLLL most got rid of all ghosting so i'm pretty happy with my progress at this point. i'll be remembering that tip with the cement though ... it's funny that you say that because just last night i was looking at yet another hood hole i filled on an AMT Challenger and noticed that the very thinnest styrene i used on the under side of the hood actually molded itself into the contours of the underside of the hood where it wasn't exactly flat .... like it had melted from the cement.
i thought about painting the bumpers but i just don wanna! it's gonna be a black car and it would look so killer with chrome bumpers, my big chrome wheels.... oh yeah. I need to order a few things, including more wheels so i'll get some various items all at once .... there is a hobby lobby near by (kinda) that i'm go see if they have any of this fun stuff - BMF, wheels, more models, you know.

[city_ofthe_south]

alright i put on the clear, things are going well enough BUT i got some ultra thin krome foil .... yeah i'm getting the impression that this crap is useless huh? It's certainly NOT chrome ... "aluminum" maybe if that was the look you're going for. Unless there is something i'm not doing *shrug* .... at any rate are there certain brands or something of BMF that are better than the next? I haven't used it before.

[black2002ls]

BMF is Bare Metal Foil. thats the product name. Maybe the brand name too. Its First class where as the rest are second rate. I've not used any foil to date.

[city_ofthe_south]

Originally Posted by black2002ls

BMF is Bare Metal Foil. thats the product name. Maybe the brand name too. Its First class where as the rest are second rate. I've not used any foil to date.

yeah after i posted that i went digging around some more and i think you're right about it being the brand and everything ... at any rate, i went to their website and that is it was it's called. they describe it exactly like what i purchased though but this was made by model master. it sucks. It looks to me like the parts you get with a model kit or even something like pegasus wheels are chromed differently than just using some sort of stick on foil ... i want to know how they do that. then i would really be kickin ass. i guess i'll order actual BMF and see how it works but it better be mirror finish. they also have black chrome which i think might be pretty cool to get. is there a reason you don't use foil? do you know some dirty secret that i need to know? the mold lines on the bumpers really bug me when i spent so much time getting the rest of the car so nice.

[mlomaka]

Yea, Bare Metal is better than Mpdel Master stuff. Even that will only look so good. The chrome in kits and on Pegasus wheels is an actual plating. You can send stuff out attached to a "tree" to some place like ChromeTech. Prep work is very important. You can have no scratches or they will show up. There is a newer paint system, I forget the name right now (Alclad?). I have seen some good results in photos, just not in person.

[70OldsSportsCoupe]

Originally Posted by mlomaka

Yea, Bare Metal is better than Mpdel Master stuff. Even that will only look so good. The chrome in kits and on Pegasus wheels is an actual plating. You can send stuff out attached to a "tree" to some place like ChromeTech. Prep work is very important. You can have no scratches or they will show up. There is a newer paint system, I forget the name right now (Alclad?). I have seen some good results in photos, just not in person.

Alsa Mirrachrome is one, but it's for larger stuff.
http://alsacorp.com/products/mirrach...irrachrome.htm

There is a chrome paint intended for models, it's used over gloss black for a true chrome appearance.

There's this, but it says it requires special equipment:
http://www.newfantachrome.com/goin/p...ntachrome.htm#

These guys can apparently chrome (silve, actually) anything:
http://www.coatofchrome.com/default.php

AHA! Here's the model paint I was looking for (mlomaka had it right):
http://www.alclad2.com/
Not just chrome, but a whole mess of natural metal finishes, like dark aluminum, burnt metal, and magnesium. Could have all sorts of uses in race or serious street car models.

Edited to acknowledge mlomaka's accuracy of memory