April 2005 Best Paint Competition

[Piggy89373]

The Best Paint competition will be open for entrees for the month of April and will close at Midnight (EST) on Saturday, April 30, 2005.

Restrictions: None.

The best paint competition is an opportunity for people to express their unbounded imaginations on an R/C car body. Realism is not required. Let your imagination loose a piece of plastic to create a work of art.

1) Design: How well does the design fit/flow on the body? Is it visually appealing? How are the color choices? Originality does not count, but naturally something that every painter has done will not score as high as something unique and new.

2) Execution: Regardless of how complex or difficult it is, how well is it executed? Are there paint bleeds? Are the lines straight (or correctly curved)? Are their obvious mistakes? Fingerprints in the paint? How well executed are the fades and other basic painting techniques? etc.

3) Difficulty: How hard was this body to paint? Is it one color? Is the entire thing 5mm checkers with 4 different colors in each square? Are the mask lines through difficult areas of the body (i.e., wing mounts or stadium truck beds)? It may be 2 colors, but is one marbled? Is one color a candy that requires a special backing technique? This is where experience as a painter helps the most.

Each area will be judged with a maximum of 10 points. After the points are tallied, the highest score wins.


The photo and background will not be judged but a clean, well-lit photo that clearly shows the body is needed. To often, muddy or poorly lit pictures limit the cars chances of winning. Please limit your entries to 3 photos per car. Keep in mind that a better picture will attract more attention for the People Choice.

The winning body may be chosen to appear in Radio Control Car Action!! RULES for Best Paint competitions:

1) Any Car may be submitted to the competition (Truck, buggy, touring car, etc).
2) Any Car submitted may NOT appear in another competition.
3) Photo editing the pictures (other than cropping and adjusting brightness/contrast) is highly looked down upon and may result in disqualification.
4) Anyone may enter a body (professional painters and Modelers are welcome!)
5) Please refrain from insulting bodies in anyway.
6) No restrictions, paint from your imagination.
7) 3 entries per person.
8) Cars must be painted within the last 6 months.
9) Imagination is key

Each submission must include the following:
Body and chassis manufacturer and size.
Paint used.
Masks used (hand or precut)


Rules for the Judge - You will have to judge within 5 days of the end of the contest. If you are unable to do so, please contact Piggy89373 via PM within 24 hours of the end of the contest.

This month, the winner from the March competition will judge the Paint competition. If the judge cannot perform his/her duties, I will select a replacement judge.

Viewers of this competition are encouraged to keep their comments to a minimum. Negative, derogatory, or inflammatory comments will not be tolerated. If the aforementioned comments are made by a contestant, their entree will be disqualified. Additionally, they will not be permited to enter the contests for a period not to exceed three months.

Next months Best Paint Competition will be the tribute to the person who's inspired you.

Let's show off your talents and have fun. Let the competition begin!!

[LEADFOOT]

6) Must fall within this month's restrictions (Three Colors Only)

Did you forget to take this out?!?!?

[Piggy89373]

Thanks, taken care of.

[kitty]

If the aforementioned comments are made by a contestant, their entree will be disqualified.
If their entree is disqualified, do they still get dessert? Sorry. ;) Couldn't resist that one.
kitty, the Spell Chick

[NotWalkinBlind]

LOL!!!!

[Piggy89373]

Yeah, I was going to remove that, but wondered just how many people would catch it since it had survived for several months already.

And for the record, no dessert either.

[Piggy89373]

With the conclusion of March, this months judge will be ZenMoto!! If Zenmoto is unable to judge, I will appoint someone else to carry out this task.

<can we get a mod to sticky this, please?>

[src7777]

Hi dudes,
this month i will be back to the contest, i will enter at least two bodies and look forward to see nice bodies from all the guys !

So lets go

Best regards

Alex Scholl

[Piggy89373]

Alex, glad to see you back on here. I look forward to see what you paint this time.

[Phil Manro]

280mm HPI Nissan Skyline body. All hand cut using BD liquid mask and the following paint:

- Createx Flourescent Yellow
- Createx Flourescent Orange
- Createx Pearl Silver
- Faskolor Faspearl Purple
- Spaz Stiz Window Tint (for shadowing)
- Spax Stix Mirror Chrome
- Createx White
- Createx Black

http://www.wickedairbrush.com/i//skyline2_-_3.jpg
http://www.wickedairbrush.com/i//skyline2_-_2.jpg
http://www.wickedairbrush.com/i//skyline2_-_6.jpg

Phil

[Phil Manro]

Proline B4 Body, masked with tape.

Paint:

- Faspearl Blue
- Spaz Stix window tint (black shadows)
- Yellow
- Orange
- Spaz Stix Mirror Chrome
- White
http://www.wickedairbrush.com/i//thornyb4new1.jpg
http://www.wickedairbrush.com/i//thornyb4new2_1.jpg
http://www.wickedairbrush.com/i//thornyb4new3_1.jpg

Phil

[Piggy89373]

3) Photo editing the pictures (other than cropping and adjusting brightness/contrast) is highly looked down upon and may result in disqualification.
Sorry Phil, but it's actually in your best interest to avoid your fiery background and take the body outside in good lighting. The dark background actually detracts from the colors you've used.

[Phil Manro]

Sorry Phil, but it's actually in your best interest to avoid your fiery background and take the body outside in good lighting. The dark background actually detracts from the colors you've used.

I already sold the body, so I am not able to re-take the pics so I replaced it with the B4.

Phil

[WheelNut]

Here is my entry:

Body: Pro-line 50's Panel truck
Paint: Pactra Lacquers racing red, blue streak, and sprint white. Alclad II chrome and polished aluminum.
Masks: Hand cut BD's (which took forever! These maxx bodies are big!)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/WheelNut2/124.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/WheelNut2/125white.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/WheelNut2/127.jpg

[Silent Scope]

No offense wheelnut.. but what did you see when you where painting that?

[WheelNut]

Just messing around with some different ideas.

[Farwar]

First time airbrushing, so go easy on me. :D Here's my entry:

Body: 190mm Proline Alfa Romeo Body
Paint: Createx Pearl Silver, Createx Opaque Red, Parma Fasblack, Parma Faspearl White
Masks: All handcut

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/Farwar/DSCN0162.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/Farwar/DSCN0163.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/Farwar/DSCN0165.jpg

[Piggy89373]

Four days into the competition and already we have four outstanding submissions! ZenMoto definitely has his work cut out for him.

Farwar, regardless if it's your first or 300th body you painted, it's still a great looking paint job. Just remember, it doesn't matter what other people think, it's what you think and what you've learned from it that matters most. ;)

[maxcarnage]

think I'll go ahead and enter this one too, my first entry is a "fast and furious" supra....it's a hpi body done in custom mixes of faskolor silver,green,black and orange.....the wing and louvres are all done in "carbon fiber" mixed those colors too...the mural was hand cut and hand painted

http://img155.exs.cx/img155/6931/img14921ww.th.jpg (http://img155.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img155&image=img14921ww.jpg)
http://img155.exs.cx/img155/1452/img15203ki.th.jpg (http://img155.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img155&image=img15203ki.jpg)
http://img155.exs.cx/img155/6818/img15212cs.th.jpg (http://img155.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img155&image=img15212cs.jpg)

as usual, click on the thumbnails for the big picture, and thanx

[Silent Scope]

Nice supra.. tint the windos and get some bigger tires.. :)

[maxcarnage]

i did that body for a friend, so it's kinda in his hands now

[redman_05]

1/12 scale Corally
Protoform sp 12
custom cut liquid mask
outlaw black (pactra)
rally green (pactra)
sprint (white)
flourescent yellow (pactra)

[kitty]

Wow. All great entries so far! I do not envy ZenMoto!

Phil: the work on the hood of that Skyline must have been pretty hard to do over the louvres part. That's a quite nice looking job! It's a bummer that you didn't save the original pics of the buggy body so that you could post them without the blacked-out background. The work (as usual) is great, but the black does detract from the paint work, especiall around the edges.

Farwar: FIRST time airbrushing? Dang! Good use of colour =)

[scorchingsavage]

Hi. I was refered here by kitty and can see that there is alot of amazing work and great info on this site. I have alot of reading to do :)
Here is my rookie entry. This is my 3rd airbrush attempt. It is for my savage and is on a HPI Dodge Ram shell.
colors used:
faspearl silver
fasflourecent orange
fasflame orange
fasred
fasburgundy
faspearlcandyred
fasblack
faswhite
Everything is hand drawn and hand cut on liquid mask.
Painting order:
a) shot the black edge/red/flameorange fade first, backed with white then silver
b) shot the black edge/burgandy/floro orange. backed with white and silver
c) shot the candyred accents, backed with silver
d) shot the black p/u bed
e) shot the whole thing in silver, backed in black
f) faskoat.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/Jakem001/tribalbronco.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/Jakem001/tribalbronco3.jpg
I hope you like it :)

[snifnfumes]

BODY: Protoform Mazda 6
(sorry my Ntc3 was under a overhaul when pics were taken)
PAINTS: Createx black,
Createx Flo. Yellow, Orange, Red
Createx White
Spax Stix Chrome
Createx Transparent Black mixed with silver to get darker checkers
Masks: Handncut 3m tape
(painted about a month ago)

[snifnfumes]

pic 2

[gone_wheelin]

Is that the Createx AutoAir paints you are using? If so, do you use the body for racing or show and, does the Createx adhere well to the lexan?

[snifnfumes]

It's regular createx, although I do use auto air at times.
It's basically faskolor and yes it holds up quite well.
The body was sold, not sure if he's using it as a race body or not.
I have painted both types of bodies using the same paints though.

[gone_wheelin]

Good to know. I have a butt load of Createx colors just sitting around collecting dust 'cus I didn't think I could use them on lexan.

[kitty]

Hey Scorching, welcome to RCZ! I'm glad that you decided to show your work over here too. You'll find a lot of camaraderie (and plenty of well meant ribbing) with/from the other painters around here as well as spectators like me. I'm still drooling over your latest work.

snifn, I don't see the checkers you referenced in the description for your latest display. I definitely like what I see, though. It's too bad they can't use designs like that for NASCAR vehicles because they'd just cover it up with sponsor decals because that would look HOT on a 1:1 race car.

Of the two RC boards I frequent, this forum is by far my favourite. I get to see all sorts of fantastic paint work that make for gorgeous vehicles. Just wanted to share that with all you guys =)

[pumpkinfish]

Body: Custom folded by me based on a template made by me, CDK nose kit
Colors: Custom mixed 'Petty Blue', fluorescent red and dark blue
Decals: Custom cut on my Stika
Masks used: hand cut masking tape
Car: Kranzel's Terminator

http://home.comcast.net/~johnwl/3-4front.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~johnwl/left.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~johnwl/right.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~johnwl/top.jpg

[Hachi_Roku]

Here is my 190mm Mazda 6 using createx colors and hand-cut Bob Dively liquid mask.

The paints I used were
-pearlized red
- opague yellow
- Flourescent yellow
- Flourescent orange
- Opague White
- Opague Black
- Pearlized Silver

http://img129.exs.cx/img129/6176/car0169rr.jpg

http://www.imagebarrel.com/img/05/94/23/CopyofCar017.jpg

http://www.imagebarrel.com/img/05/94/23/Car020.jpg

This is my first time entering a paint comp, hope u guys like it

[TMaxxBenny25]

These are some nyce cars!!!

[Hachi_Roku]

Here is my second submission. This is a HPI mazda miata for minis (tamiya minis, well hpi minis too). I used createx paints and used hand cut masking tape.

Here are the colors I used.
-Iredescent Green
- Opague White
- Opague Black
- Flourscent Orange
- Florescent Yellow

http://img209.exs.cx/img209/189/copyofcar0048ek.jpg

http://img209.exs.cx/img209/8254/car0064tg.jpg

http://img209.exs.cx/img209/7824/car0100ez.jpg

[Silent Scope]

A++ Job nice going!

[ZenMoto]

Great to see so many entrys already ...it's going to be a tough month! :) Keep it up guys!!!

[tripple]

zenMoto
better you then me ....there are some smoking body's here
awesome job guy's/girls
jamie...

[snifnfumes]

Thanks kitty,
If you look at the last picture on page one you will see the checkers better.

[tripple]

cp body
fasecent purple
fassky
fasblack
pactra window tint
alcilad 2 chrome

[tripple]

................

[tripple]

.................

[ufdog]

Tripple-I likey!

[Aluma]

I dont remember If I put this one in before... I dont think I did. :P

Savage SS46 body, superman theme, hand cut/tape, all pactra can white, yellow, candy red, blue, bright red.

[Aluma]

more of a side view...

[Aluma]

mounted....man that is one sweet savage kit...the power is insane!
wheelie fest!

[TRF Drive Hard]

Here is my 190mm Mazda 6 using createx colors and hand-cut Bob Dively liquid mask.

The paints I used were
-pearlized red
- opague yellow
- Flourescent yellow
- Flourescent orange
- Opague White
- Opague Black
- Pearlized Silver

http://img129.exs.cx/img129/6176/car0169rr.jpg

http://www.imagebarrel.com/img/05/94/23/CopyofCar017.jpg

http://www.imagebarrel.com/img/05/94/23/Car020.jpg

This is my first time entering a paint comp, hope u guys like it

Hey Hachi, nice ride... 415MS if im not mistaken?

[Silent Scope]

Yes its a 415.. I know him btw

[Hachi_Roku]

Close guess TRF drive hard! Its a regular TRF415 not the MS. Althought I must admitt its pretty hard to tell if it is a MS when it's under a body as the MS almost looks the same as the regular TRF415. I think the MS has the white low friction belts though.

[TRF Drive Hard]

Actually i was looking at the rear hub and it looked like the MS... i tried :D

[AirBoston]

Since I'm not hosting this one, I guess I'll enter a customers car...
Body: Tamiya Audi
Paint: Createx Fluorescent (Lots of 'em) backed with Opeque White
Mask: freehand cut liquid mask
Inspiration: House of Kolor calender Suburban (as I painted a replica a few years ago)

http://www.914club.com/bbs2/uploads/blog-1112844773.jpg
http://www.914club.com/bbs2/uploads/blog-1112844796.jpg
http://www.914club.com/bbs2/uploads/blog-1112844811.jpg

Someday I'll get to paint another car for myself.

[Rymin929]

Body: Associated B4 Buggy
Paint: Faskolor Faspearl Black, Fasblack, Fasyellow, custom mixed gunmetal, Alclad chrome, Pactra Racing Red, Flouresent Racing red, white overcoat, House of Kolor Chrome yellow
Mask: Handcut tape

[Rymin929]

another

[Rymin929]

Almost

[Rymin929]

Sorry last one...

[LEADFOOT]

SWEET!

What did you use for the pinstriping?

[Cosmo]

I don't know about the body in question, but I use a Mack #00 or #000 pinstriping brush for striping.

[Rymin929]

It all depends on what thickness your trying to get, I just grabbed a brush I had lying around.

[GramdeGixxer]

bostonair, wow!! that is incredible.

[LEADFOOT]

I was talking about the paint. Is that the HOK paint. I didn't look it up, is it a "striping" only paint?

[Cosmo]

Yep. That's HOK paint. I use either that or One Shot. If you can find any of the older, lead-based One Shot, that is the best pinstriping paint EVAR.

[ZenMoto]

Here it is, only the 8th and there are already a lot of excellent entries! ...this is going to be one TOUGH competition!!! :) ...keep it up!

[NotWalkinBlind]

Yer just sayin' that because you wanna get Resp fired up.
:D :cool: :D :cool: :D

[Piggy89373]

^^Agreed. Trying to coax him in to painting something to make up for the engine loss. :D

[ZenMoto]

Ok, ...I'm too new here because I don't even know who Resp is. lol ...but yeah, ...I DARE him to paint a body for this month's competition! ;)

-Z

[adrcracing]

Zen: Resp has a rep around here, an all round good guy, but watch it "DARE HIM" and he could call you out in the street for a head to head paint comp like this classic :D http://forums.radiocontrolzone.com/showthread.php?t=172877

[ZenMoto]

Hehe ...thanks for cluing me in guys (both here and PM). It seems to me like Resp has a good heart and keeps things light, I'd personally like to see him enter ...the more the merrier.

...of course I'm going to have to build an Excel spreadsheet to track all these bodies and assess them fairly. sheesh! ...I didn't know it would be a full-time job come the end of the month! lol

[RespirologyRC]

^^Agreed. Trying to coax him in to painting something to make up for the engine loss.

I just happen to be peeking in at this--just checking out the sweet looking paint jobs and to my surprise I have people daring me to paint:)!

Well then; what the FCUK! I paint something! What should I do TC, MT 1/10, MT 1/8, Mini anything Mt tc truck.-------let me know and I'll post it as soon as I'm done---------------------wwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaha

i'm gona smoke ya all like I did my engine. Poor little thing didn't stand a chance!! I would do it to a picco if I weren't getting ready for racing season:)



I'LL BE BACk-----BE WARNED!!!!!!!!

And this july get reay for the question body--whatever this means

[kitty]

So now we know what Resp drinks out of. And I had pictured an old Flintstones glass from McDonald's.

sniffn: I see it now. I didn't realise it was checks behind the decal. Doh!

Boston: DUDE! meee-yow. Me like! How did you do the spots in the magenta (or whatever colour the background is with the purple-ish dots)? I must know. I'd call that pigskin on acid (the background, not the whole car).

Lots of fantastic entries in this month's contest! I definitely am glad I'm not a judge.

[RespirologyRC]

Kitty it is not a cup or a mug, but my friend the Bobble head tiki computer god. I once was writing a journal entry, when my computer frooze and deleted all my stuff. Since then I bought a tiki that protects my hard drive.

I am very superstitious about certain things! For example: the tiki likes to sit in front of the monitor not behind, ontop, or away from the screen. Everytime I move him something bad happens. Another example of bad shite happenning: Last night I was waiting till the last possible moment to bid on some supermaxx (unlimitedengineering) CVDs. Well before I bid, I thought it would be funny and take pictures of him for this forum. Well, after this I forgot to put him back "in front of the monitor"; when I went ot bid on the CVDs my computer frooze and I missed the auction completely! They ended up selling for 20.00. Talk about a steal.

Either way lesson learned, and no he is not a cup!

[RC10ikb]

Body: Unknown manufacturer (was given to me) Ford Mondeo
Paint: Tamiya White, Bright Red, Light Blue, Blue
Masks: Hand-cut 3M tape

[RC10ikb]

Another shot...

[RC10ikb]

Last shot...

[LEADFOOT]

Yep. That's HOK paint. I use either that or One Shot. If you can find any of the older, lead-based One Shot, that is the best pinstriping paint EVAR.


Cosmo, give me a holler next time you come down to the Raleigh area. I'd like to talk to you about helmet painting. I don't know anyhthing about poly's or catalysts, etc. I have some friends that race roundy-rounds that need some helmet help!

thanks

[TRF Drive Hard]

Ima take a stab at who makes that bod... ima say Frewer...

[Silent Scope]

Hey RC10ikb.. Whats that car underneath? Thoes are some weird body posts coming out of the top!

[ZenMoto]

In the last shot it looks like a gold RC10 aluminum chassis through the rear wheel well.

[AirBoston]

Kitty, Thanks for the laugh. I love the reply! The 'pig skin on acid' is the same technique as many use for carbon fiber. Wal-Mart special: shelf liner. Normally I hold it much tighter to the body, but this time I held it a bit loose. I've used that stuff with many different color combonations and it came out looking different each time. This one was Hot Fluorescent Pink and Fluorescent Purple.

[troyb]

Ok.. after posting my first paint job ever I was asked to submit an entry into this months contest so I could get a good spanking from the pro's :eek:
This is a stock B-4 body and the paint I used was the Fascolor paints.
Fasblack
Fasgreen
Fas-flored
Fas-floorange
Fasyellow
Faswhite
Hand cut masking tape for the design layout.

Troy

[troyb]

Another picture.....

Ok.. after posting my first paint job ever I was asked to submit an entry into this months contest so I could get a good spanking from the pro's :eek:
This is a stock B-4 body and the paint I used was the Fascolor paints.
Fasblack
Fasgreen
Fas-flored
Fas-floorange
Fasyellow
Faswhite
Hand cut masking tape for the design layout.

Troy

[LEADFOOT]

Body: HPI Aero Stratus 200mm
Paint: Createx (deep blue, pearl blue, violet, pearl purple, pearl white, white, iridescent yellow, red, ultramrine blue, iridescent blue, pearl silver, black) whew!
Alclad Chrome
Faschange blue
Inspiration: Got a email asking me to do such n such with such n such color :D...and a body I saw that charlie did about a year ago


http://home.earthlink.net/~blangness/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/img_0370.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~blangness/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/img_0369.jpg

http://home.earthlink.net/~blangness/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/img0372.jpg

[gone_wheelin]

The paint scheme used as a base, was that done using a plastic bag ro something similar? I've been planning on trying that out to see what kind of affect it would produce and the close up you provided makes me even more eager to try it on my next body.

[PitStops]

Leadfoot,

that is some beautiful work.

I have been out of spraying touring cars for a while, but that has inspired me to do a few new ones.

Thanks,
Bryan

[PitStops]

you all have done some awesome work this round.

[2ndGeneration]

Since I'm not hosting this one, I guess I'll enter a customers car...
Body: Tamiya Audi
Paint: Createx Fluorescent (Lots of 'em) backed with Opeque White
Mask: freehand cut liquid mask
Inspiration: House of Kolor calender Suburban (as I painted a replica a few years ago)

http://www.914club.com/bbs2/uploads/blog-1112844773.jpg
http://www.914club.com/bbs2/uploads/blog-1112844796.jpg
http://www.914club.com/bbs2/uploads/blog-1112844811.jpg

Someday I'll get to paint another car for myself.

W O W !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Buggyracer28]

LEAD FOOT- that is sooo tight man!

[LEADFOOT]

thx :)

[TRF Drive Hard]

Howda miss that??? those colors, they... its different is all i can say... NICE!!!

[NotWalkinBlind]

Bandwidth alert... 2ndGen, in the future, please just click "Post Reply" at the bottom of the page here and address your "W O W !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" to the person you wanna address it to by saying (something like)...

"W O W KungAbuNgA99!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

In other words, no need to post the pix again. :cool:

Welcome to the board, BTW. :D

[lstretch]

Comp looks great so far. I got an exact replica body shell of the 2001 MG ZS british touring car on the way, planned for the 'inspiration from a real car' comp next month, but it looks like that's changed. Its almost finished and I managed to salvage some perfect MG decals off ebay no less, as well as a wicked lighting kit. This is the only thing left to do, along with my own personal touch, but I wont give that away yet! You'll love it, trust, especially if your a BTCC fan.
Oh yeah, just thought I'd mention, this season, HPI racing has entered a lime green IS200 into the btcc... would make a cool authentic RC car body?
Look out for my post of my MG, with comparison images of the real car.

[kitty]

Air Boston: Thank you very much for the PM reply and for the reply about the "pigskin on acid" technique. Who'da thunk you had used the carbon fibre technique to get that effect. I was pondering that a few days ago - using different colours and not holding the drawer liner down so tight. Now I know what it produces and I love it!

Leadfoot: Dang! Dude, you do some of the cleanest/sharpest cut lines I have ever seen. The blue combination marbelised effect (if that's what effect/technique you used) is stunning. It makes me think of a crystalline quartz structure that has been dyed under heavy pressure. Absolutely gorgeous!

Pooey. I got a decent airbrush for x-mess and Piggy has been on my back to get going with it, and now I have a ton of work to do around the house that will keep me busy for at least two more weeks. Between the heavy (but kind) urging by Piggy and seeing all of the sweet paint jobs in this contest (as well as others posted outside the contest) lately, I am itching big time to get out the airbrush. I may save this entire thread for when I do get time to start using my airbrush. That should keep my spirits up as I learn. There is so much talen around here to inspire me!

[RC10ikb]

Hey RC10ikb.. Whats that car underneath? Thoes are some weird body posts coming out of the top!

It's a modified RC-10 chassis...

[ZenMoto]

It's a modified RC-10 chassis...

Ha, I knew it! ...what do I win??? :D

That is a nice looking ride though, that's for shure!!!

[2ndGeneration]

Thanks NWB got it.

[Kden46]

Wow is all I can say! I have'nt seen so many great paint jobs in one comp!

Great Work everyone!

[hemiclod]

Body: Parma f-150 monster truck body 1/10th scale
Paint Used: Parma faskolor paints
Masks: Hand cut liquid mask by Hobbico,Precut flam mask xxxmain
Hand painted Wolverine on truck bed

[hemiclod]

pic2

[hemiclod]

pic3

[hemiclod]

Body: Parma F-150 monster truck body 1/10th scale
Paint: Parma faskolor and Pactra Acryl.
Mask Used: Hobbico liquid masking film hand cut
Hand painted Captain America graphics on truck bed

[hemiclod]

pic2

[hemiclod]

pic3

[cmdj_chris]

Ok, It's been a while since I've posted, but I'm back and this time I'm a sponsored driver. I'm a resident DJ in a club in Iowa, and they have thrown a couple bucks my way to defray the cost of body, paint etc.
I've got a couple things going on. This is my first carbon fiber attept and my first marbleing attempt. All done with rattle cans.
Xray T1 chassis
Protoform Nemesis body
Hand cut masking/custom vinyl masking

[cmdj_chris]

hood shot

[cmdj_chris]

The name of the club is Element. The logo has a city skyline in it and I took the artwork to a local sign shop so they could make the vinyl mask. Notice the marble effect.

[gene465]

Okay, I tried resizing the pics and not sure how they will look but here is my entry:
Associated TC4/190 MM Nemesis body
Used Sprint White (Rattlecan for backing), FAS Yellow, FAS Blue, FAS Orange, FAS Pearl Silver, FAS Red, FAS Sky, FAS Black(to darken blue)
Used a Paasche H airbrush with Bob Dively's Mask and Handcut Masks.

[gene465]

Dang still small!

[gene465]

Last one, sorry no good at croping these pics!

[twisted]

my entry.hpi ford bronco body.done in all spray can.daytona yellow,outlaw black flor. orange,flor. yellow, silver,and sprint whit forthe backing.the flames were marblized.
http://geofab.250free.com/brb.jpg
http://geofab.250free.com/brbrt.jpg
http://geofab.250free.com/brbth.jpg
http://geofab.250free.com/brbf.jpg

[src7777]

Wow dudes,
these guys in here are doing really nice and sweet jobs, i would say the performance is leveling up in the actual contest.
Really nice jobs.
I really have to think about wich bodies i will enter.
We will see !!

Regards

SRC7777

[src7777]

OK here i go. I hope the pic will work !!
This body i did for HARM, a german manufactor of 1:5th scale modelcars. They show it at the Toyfair in Nürnberg.

Body: HARM BX-1 Offroad Buggy
Size: 1:5
Mask: All Liquid BD, handcut
Inspiration: Some pics and own ideas
Colours: Faskolor, i used Faschange RED,Faspearl RED,Fascent RED, Fascent Candy RED,Fasfluorescent RED in the red areas, the blue is one coat of Fasglitter orange/silver, Fasblack droped shadows and a mixture of several coats with Fascent BLUE,Faspearl BLUE, Fasblue and Fasfluorescent blue,
and the stripes are made with Alcad Chrome.
Many many colours but it looked really good in the "special-light" on the fair !

http://www.hsas.de/BX1combo.gif

Best regards
src7777

[kitty]

I haven't seen this many entries in quite some time, much less the quality of each one. I think a big part of the judging is going to come down to picture quality, background used, etc on this one. I have yet to see an entry that I wouldn't want to own.

twisted: I love the marbelised flames! The area on the top front of the hood swirled a little in a few spots, making it look a bit like a "real flame" technique. Me likey!

[twisted]

kitty, thanks.....ive done the marble affect before but never in flames. i thoughtit came out pretty cool.

[tripple]

could i take better picks of my entry..& post the better picks with a better backround???.I didnt think it was going to come down to the backround :mad:
jamie...

[creep]

I would post pics of my new CTS-V but every time I try, I get a "website not responding" mesage :mad:

[ZenMoto]

creep, if you want to email me the pics I can host them on my server. Just send 'em to me at rc@zenmoto.net and I'll get them up ASAP and email you back the URLs.

[creep]

Thanks. I just sent you 3 pics (I think) :D

[ZenMoto]

Yep! YGM ...your pics are up and ready. I'll delete the folder after this month's competition is over.

[LEADFOOT]

love the HARM body!

nice :cool:

[creep]

I know it's not much but I like the colors.
Pro-Line CTS-V
Tamiya Translucent Orange Backed with Tamiya Copper
Pactra Indy Silver
Tamiya Wing
http://www.zenmoto.net/rc/creep/ctsv.jpg

[creep]

This body was actually just practice for the Corvette C6 I just finished today
http://www.zenmoto.net/rc/creep/ctsv2.jpg
http://www.zenmoto.net/rc/creep/ctsv3.jpg

[RespirologyRC]

I absolutely love that cadilac body! I have yet to see someone ruin a paint scheme on this body!! Nice job, I particularly love that orange looking color.

[creep]

Thanks! That's my new favorite color. I want to paint all my bodies with it now. :D I painted my C6 'Vette that color with a graphite color on the top and on the hood. It came out pretty good.

[LEADFOOT]

Here is a mounted pic of the entry I have up earlier. The new owner sent this to me :cool: . I know the body posts are too long...but at least it will keep my paint looking good!


http://home.earthlink.net/~blangness/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/dscf0263-1.jpg

[twisted]

since i can not edit my pics above heres is my bronco entry mounted.
http://geofab.250free.com/flmbo.JPG
http://geofab.250free.com/flmbt.JPG

[twisted]

ok i realized i posted to many pic.i didnt read the rules till after i posted (sorry). please delete the last two mounted pics.use me as an example as what not to do :)

[Piggy89373]

Twisted, I think the judges will take that into consideration. ;)

[gene465]

Wow,
I picked the wrong month to enter! There are really alot of good painted stuff entered this month!

[Piggy89373]

Gene, quite the opposite. Think of it as being judged against these fine works. It's about the challenge and learning new techniques, and bragging rights at the end when you find out how well you did. I'd rather be judged against 20 great entries than 3 mediocre jobs.

[gene465]

Yup,
You are right Piggy! Starting on my next body in a couple of days! Always on the lookout for new styles and techniques! Each one just gets better and better!

[abraksith]

This body was actually just practice for the Corvette C6 I just finished today
http://www.zenmoto.net/rc/creep/ctsv2.jpg
http://www.zenmoto.net/rc/creep/ctsv3.jpg
Wow, amazing. Simple but jaw dropping, my favorite so far.

[kitty]

creep: if someone ever makes a Murano shell for RCs, you definitely have a colour to match the original. Very nice work!

Piggy: VERY well put! I'd rather come in 10th out of 20 really good entries than placing first when the other contenders were only mediocre. Of course, mine would be mediocre as well.

abraksith: Newbie tip for you - When you quote a message that has graphics, edit the quote so that it doesn't show the pictures again. People will see your questions/comments easier and it doesn't take a lot of bandwidth. Welcome to the board, by the way =)

[Rogue]

Been a while since I enterend,
Body Pro Line Crowed Pleazer 2.0 for 777
Colors used, Auto Air, Silver, Gold, Trasnparent Jade Green, Trasnparent Black, and Faskolor Purple.
Mask, Hand cut masking tape for rips. Flames are something that I bought, but not sure who's they are.
http://home.comcast.net/~rc_rogue/IM002504.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~rc_rogue/IM002510.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~rc_rogue/IM002519.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~rc_rogue/IM002549.JPG

[abraksith]

abraksith: Newbie tip for you - When you quote a message that has graphics, edit the quote so that it doesn't show the pictures again. People will see your questions/comments easier and it doesn't take a lot of bandwidth. Welcome to the board, by the way =)
Thanks for the welcome kitty. Shoulda realised about the images, but was rushing.

[FESTER2004]

WOW!The pics of entries is awesome n they all should win!!!!!what blows my mind is what some are u doing just with spray cans! u guys must have some steady hands! GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!Maybe next month i will try to enter 1!

[Aluma]

I'm in! This is my tribute to the David Mann Bike made by the guys at American Chopper. Something about it just struck my fancy. :D

Proline stratus 3.0, 190mm, All rattle cans... metallic black, candy red, yellow, sprint white, candy purple, tamiya copper, tamiya gold, indy silver...man this thing took forever to paint. :P Hand cut masking tape, all of it... flames are a variation of marbling technique but using swirls instead of blotting and using 3 color to bring out more of a flame look. Stripes are candy red with candy purple shading fade with out lines, backed with silver and golden tips are copper fade inside of a gold frame.

[Aluma]

oh yeah..here's the david mann brush on the rear end, I was tired and decided to leave out the David Mann logo signature.

[Aluma]

gratuitous, necessary 3rd shot...top view.

[Piggy89373]

Aluma, beautiful man, just beautiful. Need bigger pics. (You might have to go to a web hosting for bigger pics.) Awesome graphic scheme, just sitting still it looks like it's moving.

[Aluma]

thanks! Well, hopefully my wife will get me a digicam for my Bday...then I can post clear BIG pics. Until then its just camera phone.

[abraksith]

Hey Aluma, how are those flames done? It's a hot technique, would love to learn it

[Aluma]

mask off flames, spray candy red thick, swirl it around with plastic baggy scrunched up, let dry. spray yellow thick, swirl around again, but not too much pressure as before, let dry. back with white for highlights. thats it.

[lstretch]

Hey peeps...
Here is my MG ZS 2001 British Touring Car, with a full light kit and mounted on my Tamiya TL-01 chassis. No fancy airbrushes here, just some tamiya black and green, plus a load of home-made decals. I salvaged the MG vionels off ebay (what a find) giving the car a seriously authentic look.
Tell us what you think of it?

[lstretch]

The rear lights...

[lstretch]

...and a comparison with the real car of inspiration (I would like to think this is my tribute to MG Rover and their success in motorsport following there downfall this past month, now the ZS btc will live forever)

[Tim K]

This is my Tamiya M03L Mini Cooper.
I've gone for a retro style for this body.

The paint used was Tamiya Black & Tamiya white and the yellow window tint was paint usually used for lead lighting.
I used frisket paper to mask up the skull & crossbones, got the design from the internet.
The wood paneling was done using 2 different shades of Contact wood finish, basically a sticky paper with wood printed onto it (currently have no idea how to airbrush a wood finish), the beauty of this is that when the wood paneling gets scuffed from racing I can just cut out a new set of panels and stick them on.

http://home.iprimus.com.au/tkeiller/mini/woody2.jpg

http://home.iprimus.com.au/tkeiller/mini/woody7.jpg

[Aluma]

just needs a roof rack and surfboards!!! killer :D

[maxcarnage]

my second entry to this months comp.....1961 impala gasser :)
http://img244.echo.cx/img244/2092/img15973gw.th.jpg (http://img244.echo.cx/my.php?image=img15973gw.jpg)
http://img243.echo.cx/img243/2783/img15987ma.th.jpg (http://img243.echo.cx/my.php?image=img15987ma.jpg)
http://img243.echo.cx/img243/8181/img15997re.th.jpg (http://img243.echo.cx/my.php?image=img15997re.jpg)

i used parma faskolor paints, and hobbico liquid mask

as usual, click on the thumbnails to see the bigga picture....and thanx for looking

[FESTER2004]

maxcarnage, cool "oldschool" paintjob,its cool!

[FESTER2004]

heres a "old school" idea, my sister's friend said :many many years og (via mid 80's i would say) she use to "ragtop" her brothers rc car bodys with fabric i guess? that would be cool if someone did that n it caught on.lol! u heard it hear first people !

[Buggyracer28]

Tim K.... I absolutely LOVE the wood on the mini!!! it looks soo clean!

[sava001006]

my two shells

http://img99.echo.cx/img99/3039/backsideiviewofthefordf350.jpg
http://img99.echo.cx/img99/3862/backsideviewofthenewfordf-35.jpg

and my other shell

http://img183.echo.cx/img183/2305/phto01881hs.jpg
http://img183.echo.cx/img183/2305/phto01881hs.jpg
http://img183.echo.cx/img183/447/phto01832eo.jpg
http://img183.echo.cx/img183/1779/phto01822oe.jpg

[RespirologyRC]

Here we have a mini-t Unfortunately I did a light blue fade into a teal. In person you can definetly see the difference but for one reason or another my camera does a horrible job at seperating colors. my dark blues look like deep purples and my reds look like oranges. Either way here is my pics

Body: Losi H2 suv
Paints: chrome spaz, faskolor light blue, teal, fasred, black, white, silver, and sunflower

[RespirologyRC]

and another

[RespirologyRC]

yet one more

[RespirologyRC]

the blue foam protects the body from getting scratched

[RespirologyRC]

I like posting pics

[jimbow]

blingin' rims. ;)

[Piggy89373]

Resp, thanks for dropping in a body in this month's comp. Don't forget, next month is the tribute to your inspiring artist competition. Rev up the airbrush again for another good showing, we'll be expecting you then as well.

[RespirologyRC]

This is not what I had in mind Piggy, but for the sake of entering something here it is:) I still waiting for my hobby shop to deliver my 1/8 buggy body--boy do they take forever!! Either way a tribute body?--sounds like fun I can see it now a little Salvadore Doli(sp) how wild would this be:)

My goal for this year is to learn how to create real flames similar to adracing's stuff

[FyRE]

It is a diffrent look for a HUMMER, but it would not be my choice of colors. Nice job tho!
yet one more

[ZenMoto]

Ok guys ...NO MORE ENTRIES!!!

;)

j/k.

I can't believe this ...there are like ...25 entries now; how am I supposed to judge this? ...THEIR ALL NICE!!! lol

Great work guys, by all means, keep it up. I have my excel spreadsheet all warmed up and ready for action! :eek:

-Z

[gene465]

Zen, whoever said being a judge was easy! Your right this has been by far the best comp in a long time. Could be that the theme was just one that everyone could enter, Instead of the more restricted themes. I don't envy you! :)

[RespirologyRC]

Fyre, it's ok that you don't like my colors, show me yours then bub! Check out this bling bling Fyre---if I find my rims missing I'm coming after you BRO:)

[RespirologyRC]

I know that there isn't a chassis under there but if you go to the new thread I just started you can see that I also have alun rims

[RespirologyRC]

it's all about the 22's :D

[RespirologyRC]

bling bling and presentation--what do you think of my colors now :eek:

[Piggy89373]

Resp, looking good...but you forgot a few things:
Please limit your entries to 3 photos per car.
and
Each submission must include the following:
Body and chassis manufacturer and size.
Paint used.
Masks used (hand or precut)

I think you can get away with a max of four pics, however, please refrain from posting 5 pics like you did with the Hummer.

Looks good man, you're definitely improving. Good flow and change of colors on this one.

[Buggyracer28]

Resp... that is awesome!

[RespirologyRC]

Well I'll read the rules next time---sorry guys/gals.

Body HPI 140mm Micro RS4 Trueno
Painted via Eclipse HP-C
Colors Faskolor light blue, fasred, gold, silver, black, white Creatix Yellow (by the way I love creatix colors easy to spray)
Masking Bod Dively --I'm not to impressed with this stuff but it does help you if you have a sharp blade and a thick coat.

[rcmania67]

I would like to enter this Mazda 6 - Tribal Flames using Light Aqua Blue fade into Pearl White, with Metallic Blue. The checker board is Carmel Yellow with Pearl White. The side Metallic Blue - Aqua Tribal Flames with Carmel Yellow fade into Pearl white

http://forums.radiocontrolzone.com/showthread.php?t=195212

[kitty]

Tim K: Great job on the Mini! That would look really cool done on a 1:1 Mini. It definitely gives it a surfmobile kind of appeal. I like the rest of the design too. The headlamps give it a look like something just surprised the hell of out the car :eek: <-- like that ;)

Resp: Second entry. That one is nice =) It has a much better colour combination and really flows well.

[RidgewayBodies]

Just finished a body for my personal FT B4.

J Concepts Scoopless Body
All graphics hand cut using Bob Dively Liquid Masking
Faskolor Florescent Orange, Red and Green
Spaz Stix Anodized Gold and Mirror Chrome
Auto-Air Flame Red, Black, White and custom mix gray

http://www.ridgewaybodies.com/misc/b4_1.jpg
http://www.ridgewaybodies.com/misc/b4_2.jpg
http://www.ridgewaybodies.com/misc/b4_3.jpg
http://www.ridgewaybodies.com/misc/b4_4.jpg

[Piggy89373]

Ridge, beautiful man! The subtle shading on the checkers looks fantastic.

[ZenMoto]

Nice work everyone. ...that's 36 entries in my spreadsheet so far! :eek:

I HIGHLY encourage everyone to go through their entries and post any missing information! The things that need to be included are:

1. Body and chassis manufacturer and size. (make, model, size either in scale or mm)
2. Paint used. (please list the colors used)
3. Masks used (hand or precut)

Unfortutnately, I'm not a professional painter (I don't even own an airbrush) so I don't know a lot of the lingo (had to read through the entire post again to realize that "BD's" is a type of liquid mask. :confused:

Because there are so many entries, and the competition is fierce, any time there is a draw between two or more entries, the one with the most accurate information will get the nod.

To quickly review the information I have on your entry, you can view my checklist here:

April Paint COmpetition (http://www.zenmoto.net/rc/paintcomp.htm)

The photos are only linked in for my reference when going back over the entries for judging.

Thanks everyone, ...and get those last minute entries in! :)
-Z

[RidgewayBodies]

Thanks Piggy. The shading on the checkers is a custom mixed gray. I use Auto-Air Transparent Black and White to mix. Not sure of the exact ratio, just mix till it looks gray!

[rcmania67]

My Mazda 6 is 190mm and TC3 Chassis.

[LEADFOOT]

Zen,

nice job on the spreadsheet. Definitely something all judges should adopt. Would you mind making it public?


Also, FWIW, I used all liquid mask and hand cut everything.

[creep]

I know it's not much but I like the colors.
Pro-Line CTS-V
Tamiya Translucent Orange Backed with Tamiya Copper
Pactra Indy Silver
Tamiya Wing


The body is 190mm
The chassis is a Team Losi XXX-S
The masks are 3M blue masking tape hand cut
The wheels are Pro-Line Wabash with HPI Advan tires
The stock wing mounts were cut off and covered with a piece of the stock wing with the mounting holes for the Tamiya CF pattern wing drilled in it
The centers of the plastic wing mounts were cut out
All paints were spray cans

That enough info? ;)

[Hachi_Roku]

Since it doesn't seem that I can edit my post, my hpi miata body that I submitted on page two of this thread is a body for the tamiya M-04m chassis or the hpi mini touring car chassis. The wheelbase is 225mm but they don't specify the width or scale of the body on the packaging. They are slightly smaller than 1/10 scale bodies.

[troyb]

zen moto,
I reviewed my information for my entry on your spread sheet and seen that I forgot the size of my body. It is a 1/10th scale Associated B-4 body. And that should give you all the information needed on my entry.

Thank you..

Troy

[abraksith]

rcmania67, great car, the color scheme is reminiscent of a japanese tattoo, esp the tribal designs, really nice work on the fade it think

[ZenMoto]

Thanks guys. I'm not deducting points for not having body size etc, it just helps me to judge the paint job if I know how many colors were used, and if your masks (liquid or tape) were hand cut or pre-cut masks etc. The good news is I love and own, touring cars, buggys and trucks; so I don't have any preference to one over the other ...this is going to be tough to judge!!!

If anyone wants, after I post the results next week, I'll make the excel .xls file available for download so the next judge can use it if he/she wants.
All the entries are outstanding, and nobody should feel disapointed if they don't win. ...there is some fierce competition this month!

There are a few hours left, let's see those last minute entries! ... Iknow there are a couple people out there sand-bagging to the last minute! ;)
-Z

[Farwar]

My masks were handcut used with tape. The chassis it was shown on is a Xray T1R. I think thats all that's left.

[ZenMoto]

My Mazda 6 is 190mm and TC3 Chassis.

rcmania,
What kind of mask did you use, and what paint? Did you hand-cut the mask?

Nice looking car! :)

-Z

[RidgewayBodies]

Wow, I just went back and looked at the competition and there are some awesome paint jobs this month! Good luck to all!

[tripple]

my crowed pleaser body is for a t4 & was all hand cut..
thanks & good luck..these bodys are smoking hot :eek: !!!
jamie...

[tripple]

paints used
spaz mirror chrome
spaz window tint
spaz candy apple red(witch i can get to show up in the picks)
spaz purple dynamite
spaz purple (white) glow in the dark paint
spaz blue glow in the dark paint
solid white glow paint backer
faskolor
fasblack
all hand cut liquid mask

[tripple]

side

[tripple]

& yes the lightning glows in the dark

[ZenMoto]

Ok, great entries everyone. Don't expect the results yet ...this will take some time (hopefully not until the Thursday deadline, but there's a LOT to go over).

Thanks for the patience, and for the awesome entries!

-Z

[rcmania67]

[QUOTE=ZenMoto]rcmania,
What kind of mask did you use, and what paint? Did you hand-cut the mask?

Nice looking car! :)

This is all hand drawn, which mean - I design it myself. I used 3M tapes to create my own mask. Paint - automobile mix with Lexan paint

[AirBoston]

Fluorescent Yellow
Fluorescent Orange
Fluorescent Red
Fluorescent Purple
Fluorescent Hot Pink
Fluorescent Green
Leaf Green
Light Blue
Red
Opaque White

All Bob Dively's Liquid Mask, Hand Drawn/ cut.
Drawer liner and Dryer Sheet shields

[rcmania67]

Paint for Mazda 6

I used Pactra Lexan Paint mix with real automobile paint for the following colors:

Metallic Blue
Carmel Yellow
Pearl White – Wimbledon White
Aqua Blue

All colors back with Silver Aluminum

[ZenMoto]

Ok, I was up until 2am last night working on this; I have tried to be as fair as possible. This was a much bigger undertaking than I had expected so I want to make a couple points before I post the results.


I didn't deduct points for a lack of information, however, it was not possible to add "weight" to my judgement on some of them without it, this could have hurt some people's scores. (all information entered prior to this posting was taken into account).

"Detail" is basically undefined from a judging point of view; touring cars and trucks have an advantage over buggys because they have real-world associations (grille, lights, bumpers, etc). Because of this, I gave added weight to the complexity of paintwork on buggy bodies; if they went the extra mile, they got added points on detail.

As I'm not an airbrush guy, I don't know what techniques are more difficult than others. My judgement was based on aesthetics and execution over technique as I don't have the base knowledge to say "Wow, that was really hard, and yet they pulled it off!". I think this worked out to be the most fair way to judge.


Finally, I need to say the following:

We had a 3 way tie! Yes, three entrants came up with the same final score, but I didn't want to leave it that way. In the end I awarded a bonus 0.1 point for the entry (of the three) who had the clearest photos showing their work in great detail. I then added a 0.05 point to the score of the entry with the next clearest photos.

I felt, that even though the other 2 paint jobs may be better in real-life, that's not something that I can decide with the images I had to work with. I know some people had difficulty posting larger, or clearer images, but that is all I had to go on for judging. I simply had to give the nod to those who were unable to hide their potential mistakes on account of the clarity of their presentation.

That said, here are the top 3 finishers:

2nd runner up is gene465 with his beautiful Protoform Nemisis body. Gene, I know you had troubles with your photos, but man, that is a beautiful car!!!

1st runner up is Rymin929 and his killer Associated B4. I LOVE the paint on this body.

And our winner is Phil Manro and his amazing HPI Nissan Skyline. Phil's was the first entry, and set a high standard for others to follow. The exactness of the chrome pinstriping, and the effect of his shading to add dimension to his graphics were extremely well done.

Everyone should be proud of their entries, this was a bear to try and sort out.

Congratulations to our winners, and everyone who competed! Not a bad looking body in the bunch (and there were 37 entries). :eek:

Here is the final scoring tally

April Best Paint Competition (http://www.zenmoto.net/rc/april_comp.htm)

If anyone wants to download the actual spreadsheet, they are welcome to, it is located here! (http://www.zenmoto.net/rc/april_comp.xls) The 3 judging categories will automatically tally into the final score field. Just neter a number and it will sum the totals for you.

Great job everyone!!!
-Z

[tripple]

awesome job zen...
I love the way you set up the spreadsheet..This should be a must in all comps
& im very pleased with were i finished with both entry's
see you all next month
jamie..

[gene465]

Zen,
Wow you got this judged quick! Great Job you had your work cut out for you as there were alot of exceptional entries! The spread sheet with links to all the pictures really made it easy to go through the pics! You have set a standard for all of the rest of the judges! Appreciate the kind words on my entry as it was my best body yet. I hope to enter many more and hopefully figure out the whole picture thing! Thanks again Gene

[kitty]

Wow... Zen, you had a really tough job to do, but you pulled it off like a champ. I feel that you were very fair, objective and professional in your judging. If we ever go to a panel of judges around here, I'd vote for you to be one of them. Major props to you, bro!

ps - just noticed that on your "april_comp.htm" page, it lists Phil Manro as the painter of the 1st runner up B4 body, but in the results a few posts up from this one, it says Rymin929.

[ZenMoto]

Wow... Zen, you had a really tough job to do, but you pulled it off like a champ. I feel that you were very fair, objective and professional in your judging. If we ever go to a panel of judges around here, I'd vote for you to be one of them. Major props to you, bro!

ps - just noticed that on your "april_comp.htm" page, it lists Phil Manro as the painter of the 1st runner up B4 body, but in the results a few posts up from this one, it says Rymin929.

Thanks Kitty. I think you misread the htm page. Phil's B4 was the second entry in the competition, but Rymin929's B4 (entry 15) was the 1st runner up; it is highlighted in yellow. The spreadsheet was done in the order the entries were received. Rymin929 was in fact the 1st runner up.

Frankly, there were so many damned good entries that I was racking my brains all night trying to get the scoring even! lol

Thanks again guys, and once more, congrats!!!

Dale aka ZenMoto <- Back to rebuilding my King Blackfoot! :D

[Piggy89373]

Zen, exceptional job!! Thanks for stepping up to the plate, for judging fairly and in a very timely manner. Unless you have a problem with it, I plan to use your spreadsheet as an example for future judging.

Phil, from the first body you put up on here, all of us knew you had some serious talent. This win was just a matter of time. Congratulations on a hard fought and well deserved win.

To all the contestants, I can't thank you enough for all the hardwork and beautiful contributions. Even if you didn't win, there was a lot of exceptional pieces entered this month. Any one could/would win had there been less capable painters entering. It's that kind of hardwork you all have provided that keeps this board where it's at. Thank you again, and congratulations to all.

(I can't believe we had 37 entries!!!)

[ZenMoto]

Thanks Piggy, feel free to use the spreadsheet; that's why I put the .xls file online! :) If anyone needs help with how to use it (like adding/editing links etc.) they can PM me and I'll walk them through it; ...it's really easy.

-Z

[Aluma]

great job Zen... love the spreadsheet tally...man, I gotta get a real camera.

[Phil Manro]

Wow, I am totally stunned and don't know what to say! With all the awesome entries I in no way expected it! :eek:

Thanks Zen for doing an awesome job of tabulating the scores!

Phil

[ZenMoto]

Wow, I am totally stunned and don't know what to say! With all the awesome entries I in no way expected it! :eek:

Thanks Zen for doing an awesome job of tabulating the scores!

Phil

You're welcome, and congrats Phil. You did a great job and deserved the win!

Is there a place online that shows how to use the liquid mask? I'd especially like to learn how you do your pinstriping so clean and uniform around the graphics?

Thanks, and congrats again!

Dale

[Phil Manro]

I just draw the design on the outside and cut the liquid mask by hand with an x-acto knife. If you drag the knife holding it high instead of actually trying to cut the mask my gripping the knife low and hard, the knife will take a naturally straight line on its' own.

Phil

[ZenMoto]

So you basically cut the graphic in the mask, then paint, then cut an outline out of what's left of the mask and spray the new color (in your case chrome)?

I've never used liquid mask before. I am dying to give it a try though! :)

Thanks Phil.
-Z

[gene465]

Zen,
Once you go LM you may never use anything else! Great stuff ! Still trying to get the feel for not cutting the lexan! The body I entered got sideswiped and a piece broke off from me going to deep when cutting the BDLM

[Nemesis 666]

Love the purple and silver with black accents.

I just bought a Tamiya Skyline GT-R and want to have a go at air brushing the shell. I am researching over the 'net for tips and tricks for newbies.