FredFredBurger

Hi, I am soon to be painting a Tamiya Mitsubishi Evo X body (White) and would like to know, do I need white and black paint for the car?

t9dragon

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Is the body clear or white hard body?

FredFredBurger

Its clear, I plan on painting it ivory white

Lars from Norway

If this paint your are going to use isn't transluctent, but a solid colour, you will need no backing. I use no backing when painting solid white, but if you want to you can back it with PS-12 (silver) which won't make the white much darker opposite to what the black one will.

Have a look here on my large scale body:

The main body is backed with the PS-12 silver, and the front part is not backed with any paint, it is solid white (PS-1). Just to give you something to compare with

Spetz

If you meant do you need black paint to paint the front bumper lip and the rear apron on the bumper, then yes you need a paint but not in a can, you apply it with a brush.

Alternatively you can just paint the whole thing white and not worry about those little details, as usually they don't come out perfect anyway

nismojdm2k6

or you can do what i did....i painted the whole body red and i used black paint from the outside....take a look..

GALAXY

Ah,there's pictures!! That first one,looks like you have cat fur stuck in the decals,haha.I have a battle with that at my house too.

That doesn't look horrible for being painted on the outside,I had to put a couple little drops of black on the outside of mine as well to hide a few pieces of white that made it through on the front. I'll get some more pics up in the other thread soon,my wing should actually be there at the hobby shop on the way home this evening so I plan on mounting that and snagging pics since it may be too wet to drive the actual car this evening.

nismojdm2k6

lol the "fur" is actually my rug that i was sitting on....for some reason, the rug sheds lmao....but hurry and post pics of ur car...i wanna see it!