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Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/7/2006 4:47:50 PM   
Maxime


 

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Status: offline 		Can someone explain me how to do it? I want the back of my body to look like Carbon Fiber.


Thank you!

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/8/2006 2:36:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Painting Carbon Fiber is really, really, really hard I'm guessing.

Go to: www.xxxmain.com/stickerz-carbon.shtml They have blank Carbon Fiber sticker sheets so you can use those. Hope this helps.

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/8/2006 5:24:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		dude your taking one hell of an Ambitious project. that is making super skinny tape with that weave of carbon fiber. this like week long painting job. unless you really good at painting and masking and you have a huge patience go for it!

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/9/2006 12:28:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		in the past I have used the mesh that is used to line bottom of cabinets and drawers... stole some from the wifes supplies...hehe. worked pretty good but you have to make sure it does not strech or move. painted black over it and then took it off and painted gray.

I got it from here:
http://www.rctech.net/articles/painting_hauntedmyst3.shtml

it is about 3/4ths of the way down the page...

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/9/2006 1:29:05 AM   
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Status: online 		Its actually very,very,very easy. Get a roll of non skid pad like what they use in kitchens and in toolboxes. Its a rubbery mat with lots of square holes. Cut a piece only as big as you need it. Place it on the part you are painting and use a hair dryer to make the piece lay flat on what you need it. Im not sure what paint you use but I use fascolor. I mix about 3 drops of black with about 10 of silver and spray lightly. Just enough to get good coverage but not to let it run. Move the body around so that you can get all the way around but make sure the mat does not move. Then take the mat off and hit it with black. It kinda looks like this.

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/10/2006 7:39:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		Clean the body really well. take drywall tape and put it over the area you want to look like carbon fiber then spray gray, peel the tape off and spray black. if you want a little more realistic look then instead of gray then hit it with back very lightly. go over the black with root beer then back with silver, peel the tape and finish with black. (Note: You will not get it right the first time so practice on some scrap lexan and be light with the root beer it will beed through other colors if laid down to heavy)

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/10/2006 4:53:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you for all the replies. I was able to make an acceptable first job using your advices ( will have pics once the body is cut and fitted ).



And I will definitely try the drywall tape method.

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/10/2006 5:19:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		dont use the drywall tape it doesnt look like cf. have a go with it to make a different effect, but if you want cf effect, use the toolbox liner. its the only way to go

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/10/2006 5:21:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		also, instead of gray or silver, try abit of pearl charcol mixed wth some gold

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/10/2006 5:38:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Not finished yet but here's the result. That's my first airbrush job ever, with some help from my girlfriend ( shew drew the flame pattern on frisket and gave me advices while I painted)

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/10/2006 6:48:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		looks good! nice job for your fist time with an airbrush.

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/19/2006 11:39:36 PM   
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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/28/2006 12:48:21 AM   
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Status: offline 		There were a couple a suggestions as to how to get the CF effect, but i don't think you told us which method you used to get the CF effect!!

The body looks pretty decent, i think its a good first attempt.......

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 11/28/2006 2:03:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		I first painted a light coat of transparent black. The most difficult part was to try to make it EVEN, and not too dark. Then I used the kitchen drawer anti-skid material as a template, and painted a few light coats of white ( LIGHT coats, until it becomes solid white through the template). And last, I removed the template and painted solid black on top of everything.


My girlfriend suggested to use the transparent black method instead of skipping this step and using grey or silver paint. She actually was able to make an awesone looking carbon fiber paint job (on my practice acetate sheets), but I wasn't able to make it quite as good looking on the body as she could on the practice sheets.

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RE: Painting to make it look like Carbon Fiber - 12/1/2006 12:53:56 AM