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As you may have noticed, I've begun a series of articles on painting hard (ABS, aka Styrene) RC car bodies in the "blog" section. I'm not setting myself up as an "expert" on paint - this is just things I have learned by doing.

It was going to be a single article, but having reached 10,000 words without finishing it, our fearleass leader Lars agreed it would be better to serialiase it. It's still not finished, but I would anticipate it'll run to 12 parts, each appearing on a weekly basis.

These are the parts so far - I'll add to this list as more articles appear:

Part 1: Why Paint at all? : amateur psychology of the motivations for painting our cars
Part 2: Choosing a Paint System : what sort of paints work best for me
Part 3: A Better Appreciation of Weather (and Forecasting) : pretty self explanatory ?
Paint Prep, pt.1
Paint Prep. pt.2
Part 6: Driver Figures: Plaid Shirts & Jeans
Part 7: Driver Figures: Faces






Why I'm posting this here is that 99+% of the site notifications for new threads, PMs, gallery comments & blog comments just don't make it to my inbox - my ISP seems to think they're all spam & deletes them immediately, where as proper junk - including 419 scams from Nigeria, ads for Viagra, viruses, and phishing puporting to be from just about every bank, anywhere, ever - gets through unfettered

So, if anyone does have any feedback of question, it would be better if you posted them here, so I have chance of seeing them, when I click the "Recent Topics" button.


Future bits planned include:

Spraying in general
Masking & Lining
Rectifying Paint Faults (two parts)

Added links for paint prep, parts 1 & 2 ... is anyone reading these things?

View counts tells me people are certainly reading them. And are appreciative when giving ratings.

I have read them and they are a masterclass....ill definitely refer back to them for reference in future

Edou wrote:

... And are appreciative when giving ratings.

I wouldn't rely on that, not since I discovered it was possible to rate my own articles, anyway

Bet you're not the only one rating.

tamiya wrote:

ill definitely refer back to them for reference in future

I was thinking this too - they're a great tutorial to fall back on.

Um, does that mean the ratings were all you then?
Sorry Jonny, I haven't read them yet, I will at some point though, & I'll bet there'll be some spectacular info & tricks in there too!

Just added a link for Part 6: Driver figures - Plaid shirts & jeans , which Lars published yesterday ... I'd better get on with next week's bit now

It took me a month longer than it was meant to, but I finally turned in the next installment ... Lars has published it here .