VHT used to be legit but people have reported here it peeling. Other than that, nope, don’t know any. You can google and find some really expensive stuff but it will be difficult to get anyway.
You can paint a stick you just need to clear coat it with a protective coat and make sure you let it cure proper.
I’ve never painted anything translucent, but I’ve painted black over white and white over black with Krylon fusion and never had an issue. Light over dark just took a bit more layers. It does bond with the plastic unlike paint where it sticks on top. Once you spray theres no going back, but you could sand it again, primer, then spray some other color. I’d maybe try spraying the inside a little with the stuff you are going to use and see how it does. Somewhere under the bottom panel.
Problem with fusion is that it still has the possibility to chip so that’s why going the extra step and clear coating isn’t a bad idea.
so sanding it down, painting it properly after instructions,throwing on a clearcoat and letting it cure (see spray paint can for the info?) will essentially be chip free?
Pretty much. The clear coat is basically a new layer of plastic once the solvent evaporates and it fully cures.
i love this forum, everyone is so helpful. i try to help as much as possible but i dont know enough in most cases.
i’ll go to my local paint store and ask them what i need to do it. i can use any high-quality plastic colour and i dont need to use a primer?
thx
You can use any spray paint you want, but obviously try to get something of decent quality. Car paints are actually pretty nice and better than the spray paints I’ve seen in some stores, which can be pretty low end. I would use a primer, something to fill the scratches once you sand the plastic. Sanding the plastic gives the primer something to stick to, which in turn gives the paint something to stick to. Then you put on the clear coat. It’s pretty simple and easy once you get down to it, but try to practice a bit first on some scrap wood.
I’ll go to a real paint store and ask for something in the $35-40/can class i guess?
should be enough with 1 can of primer/paint/clear coat, right?
sanding is pretty basic, 400>800>1200? not too much, but enough to get it to stick to something
I would’t spend THAT much on a can. I’m only talking $7 cans from a car parts store vs $2 or $3 cans from a department or hardware store. Usually paints in the range of $35 or so require professional spray guns, which isn’t needed in this case.
its ridiculously expensive over here, but ill talk to the guys at the paint store i guess, lol
thanks a lot
There is no real dye in a can that works on plastic. I was like Dej at on time, wanting the paint color to fully penetrate the plastic so, I boiled some RIT dye in a wide cake pan, and soaked and rotated my Sega HSS-0136 case in it. It absorbed some of the dye but, not fully. If I had to guess, it absorbed about 5% of the pigment, but not before warping slightly due to the heat. It’s not worth the trouble.
Nowadays, I don’t go for drastic color changes when painting/coating cases. Now when I do, I only use one of two brands. SEM Color Coat and Duplicolor Vinyl & Fabric Coating, with SEM being the best due to them having more sheen and color choices
All I do for prep is scour it with a ScotchBrite pad and dish detergent, Ajax or SEM soap and thats it. Optionally I use adhesion promoter, but that’s when its a special resto, like my HSS-0130.
“there is no real dye in a can that works on plastic” this not that true. I painted me SE stick several years with the following Can of Paint and I maybe had to paint once again later only for some small scratches but the Rust Oleum vinyl dye spray paint can is what I would use and I highly recommended it.
Will painting a case cover up any minor scratches from things like super glue?
Yeah, I stand by what I posted. Technically It’s not dye, it’s still paint or as their website calls it, “…a flexible coating”.
Whats a super glue scratch? Anyway, it probably will. You can try blending the scratch away with green scotch-brite or approx 800 grit sandpaper to be extra safe.
More like a scab of glue that will not come off. I’m going to paint over it because right now it looks like crap and bothers me
If you aren’t careful pain can “magnify” marks, scuffs and imperfections.
Try to sand down the area effected first.