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I'm loving Shotgun Dave's painting technique

Postby cagee13 » Sun Jun 29, 2014 10:36 am

I've finally got around to picking up a cheap harbor freight airbrush and trying out Shotgun Dave's painting 101. It was extremely easy and if I messed up the touch up was effortless. I had a near disaster when spraying the clear because I had my can of primer sitting right next to the can of clear. Needless to say I misted the whole car with white primer but I think it gave it a nice frosty blue look. Anyway here is the pics of the painted body and thanks go to shotgun for the great tutorial.ImageImageImageImage


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Re: I'm loving Shotgun Dave's painting technique

Postby dge467 » Sun Jun 29, 2014 11:33 am

Looks great! Who makes the body?
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Re: I'm loving Shotgun Dave's painting technique

Postby cagee13 » Sun Jun 29, 2014 11:41 am

Thanks guys. This is actually a resin body I cast.


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Postby Ember » Sun Jun 29, 2014 6:07 pm

The Jag looks great in baby blue. Looks like a nice crisp cast too. Can't get enough XK120s in my book.
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Re: I'm loving Shotgun Dave's painting technique

Postby cagee13 » Sun Jun 29, 2014 6:28 pm

The body needed some filling here and there but I didn't do it since this was only a test subject.


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Re: I'm loving Shotgun Dave's painting technique

Postby HomeRacingWorld » Sun Jun 29, 2014 7:08 pm

Nice work Chris! I gotta do this.
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Re: I'm loving Shotgun Dave's painting technique

Postby ListerStormGT » Sun Jun 29, 2014 8:21 pm

Looks great Chris! I really need to do this too its just too hard to give up the spray can.. :)
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Re: I'm loving Shotgun Dave's painting technique

Postby cagee13 » Sun Jun 29, 2014 8:54 pm

It is hard to give up the spray can, but after doing this one I can't see going back to them. This is so easy and the color options are endless.


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