Best Paint Compeition - June 2005

[Piggy89373]

The Best Paint competition will be open for entrees for the month of June and will close at Midnight (EST) on Thursday, 30 April 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, ADRCRACING will judge the Paint competition. If he cannot perform his 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 entry 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 restricted to letters and numbers.

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

[FESTER2004]

piggy,the contest ends on april 30th when its june,lol honest mistake! ok gonna go finsih my body now so i can enter!

[Piggy89373]

Thanks Fester, unfortunately, I don't have the power to edit this post. Needless to say, contest will end June 30th.

[kitty]

Piglet, you can always ask a moderator to edit it for you. They can fix the date and the word "entries" at the same time :p

[FESTER2004]

hello, here is June's first entry as well as mine!

body: 1998 bolink 1/10th monte carlo
paint: testors spray cans:gloss white,gloss yellow,comp.orange,gloss red
masks:seperated colors by masking tape
decals: homemade off my computer

[FESTER2004]

one more pic....

[Farwar]

Ok here's my entry:
Body: HPI Stratus Aero 2 190mm
Paint: Fasblack, Autoair opaque white, custom mixed dark blue, custom mixed light blue
Masks: 3/4 XXX Main (yes i cheated :p ) 1/4 hand cut
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/Farwar/DSCN0209.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/Farwar/DSCN0211.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/Farwar/DSCN0217.jpg

[FESTER2004]

nice car farwar!

[JoeBlowtheSchmo]

those headlights look awesome

[LEADFOOT]

can we get this thread pinned?...it is June, lol :rolleyes:

[harley1874666]

body in progress, no stickers or lexan glue, just paint.

[Bublicus]

body in progress, no stickers or lexan glue, just paint.
hahah, somebody's into japanese school girls :D

[FESTER2004]

harley, that pic of the girl,is it a picture u colored in? it s ok but i hope they dont close this thread cuz i am sure some people mite find it offensive?????its a little extreme i think!good luck anyway!

[harley1874666]

i cut the outline and painted it as i would anything else. i have about 8 hours in cut time before i painted anything.

if the mods think i should delete the pic i will. i'd rather withdraw the entry than ruin it for everyone else.

[Mystracing]

Figured I might as well throw this in here.

Body and Chassis is Associated RC10GT (Body is Pro-Line body from the kit)
Paints: All faskolor.
Mask: Liquid mask all hand cut.

http://www.rc10gthobby.com/mystracing/NGT1.JPG

[Piggy89373]

Jodie, the new ride is looking pretty nice!! I like that one better than the blue one from last year.

[Mystracing]

Why thank you I like it better than the blue one myself.

[Mel*E*Mel]

Here's my three bodies
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/sideshowmel/me_2.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/sideshowmel/Ronsad2.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/sideshowmel/Ronsad22.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/sideshowmel/ohboy2.jpg

Bodies....The top two are Losi AD2 bodies
Bottom a Losi Fury body
Paint... All of them i used Testors Racing finishes
Mask .. all hand made with 3M green tape

[FESTER2004]

wow!so many entries i cant even compete,lol oh well give me a E for effort! any chance can we get a "novice" class in here! lol! GOOD WORK EVERYONE!

[FESTER2004]

ok here is my second entry,i think i am getting better????lol!

Body:1996 bolink 1/10th monte carlo
paint:testots spray enamal:blue,gloss yellow,silver,gloss black
masks: homemade off my computer & masking tape,outlined masks with black sharpie pen on the inside before i sprayed

[FESTER2004]

one more....

fyi: i have a couple of bolink bodies i bought "Cheap" to practice painting on.i dont have a mass supply of them ok.

[LEADFOOT]

Mel I really like all 3!...and you get bonus points for all of them being on a gas truck :)

[Piggy89373]

Ok, shameless plug....If you have a GT, send Mel a PM...if he's still selling the Mel-E-Mods. :D Nice looking shells!

[RespirologyRC]

Holy smokes!!!!!! Nice job everyone. I can't believe that their are soo many entries already. Well I have to hurry up and finish mine so that I can get it in.

[LEADFOOT]

Uh, yeah, I forget to mention Jodie's truck. :confused:

(Sorry Jodie)

Your truck is very nice looking and gains additional extra bonus points above Mel's for being a GT ;)

[Mel*E*Mel]

Ok, shameless plug....If you have a GT, send Mel a PM...if he's still selling the Mel-E-Mods. :D Nice looking shells!
Thanks Piggy but i stopped making them a while ago .. took to long to make them for the money i was getting....

Myst ... nice ride Bro!!

[Mystracing]

Thanks Mel, I love the green flames on orange. I'd have never thought of doing that.

[JDAWG53]

Sorry I dont have a clean chassis to display it on :)

Kyosho 7.5 body
Parma Yellow, Orange, Grey, Black White.
Hobbico Liquid Mask

[JDAWG53]

another angle

[JDAWG53]

Last one

[FESTER2004]

jdawg56, very nice paint scheme,the colors work well 2gether

[kitty]

Myst: LOVE the fades, bud! The silver center section is pretty darned cool and there's something about the area around the headlamps that makes me keep looking back at them. Kinda like a spiked hairdo or something hehehe

Mel*E*Mel: I like how the orange of that first one looks inset - nice effect! What I like even more is your use of "ragged" edges on the other bodies. It reminds me of frayed rope. Did you do all that with a small paint brush? The Fury body is pretty funky (in a good way)!

JDawg: Your lines are so tight on that buggy shell, it could pass for one huge internal sticker. Very nice!

[harley1874666]

that looks super clean jdawg, i haven't yet been able to paint like that. good job.

[Mel*E*Mel]

Kitty .. first .. thanks!! The ragged look is done with a pin-stripers brush #00.. gets to be a pain sometimes but i also love the look of it .. i seem tyo use it on alot of the bodies i do...i guess it's my trade mark in a way..lol

Thanks Myst .. I'll be around the GT forum here and there .. just need a break from all the dumb kids posting non-sence.. It was driving me crazy not being able to go off on them in person for posting dumb threads

[kitty]

Thanks for the reply, Mel! From some of the other techniques I've seen done around here, looks like I'm going to need to add some pinstriping brushes to my painting kit.

[harley1874666]

you can also get nail brushes from a beauty shop. they sometimes come cheaper in sets.

[Mel*E*Mel]

Hmm Harley .. thats a good idea.. they use some real fine ones too..
man it's going to look funny having a 250lb guy looking for brushing in a beauty shop..lol

[RespirologyRC]

Kitty your right those do look like stickers!! Really sharp lines, looks great

[Piggy89373]

Mel, it's even better when you're in the beauty shop....and you ask for assistance.

[RespirologyRC]

here is my entry

RC18T body on a Mini-t chassis

[RespirologyRC]

it was painted using BD and Faskolor paints

[FESTER2004]

wow .alot of entries!!!!!

[bobf24]

heres my entry,

body - protoform stratus 3.1
chasisi - ntc3
paint - parma faskolor & spaz stix chrome
mask - hand cut BD


http://www.londonrc.com/UserAttachments/75948-DSC00261.JPG

http://www.londonrc.com/UserAttachments/75949-DSC00262.JPG

http://www.londonrc.com/UserAttachments/75950-DSC00263.JPG

http://www.londonrc.com/UserAttachments/75952-DSC00264.JPG

[FESTER2004]

nice job bob24!looks sweet!

[FESTER2004]

oneimutfer, check this out,this where u can get those bodies

http://stores.ebay.com/Bolink-RC-Cars-Close-Out-Sale

[FESTER2004]

also check out this website

mcallister@mcallisterracing.com

[Farwar]

Here's my second entry.
Body: HPI El Camino on a Savage SS
Paint: Createx Opaque blue, tinting black, translucent scarlet(orange), sliver, Faskolor pearl blue, pearl white, auto-air white and a custom mixed dark silver.
Masks: All handcut

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/Farwar/DSCN0258.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/Farwar/DSCN0256.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/Farwar/DSCN0257.jpg

[LEADFOOT]

Nice job on the Elky! Def. your best effort, yet :D

[LEADFOOT]

Here's a Pro-line Crowd Pleazer 2.0
All Createx paints.
Hand cut graphix with vinyl cut Mugen Logos.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a25/joshl/IMG_0710.jpg

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a25/joshl/IMG_0707.jpg

[FESTER2004]

awesome work leadfoot n farwar.. wish i could do that.......WOW So mant entries this month!

[twood]

my entry
proline escalade ext for mini-t
pactra metallic blue and indy silver
handcut 3m masks
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/twoodaj/rc007.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/twoodaj/rc008.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/twoodaj/rc006.jpg

[twood]

another entry
hpi mx-1 body
faskolor purple, sliver, pearl fasglitter
handcut 3m masks
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/twoodaj/rc004.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/twoodaj/rc005.jpg
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/twoodaj/rc009.jpg

[ImLow78]

1/10 scale J concepts BJ4
paint, fastkolor,pactra
mask, vinal,hand
Body done by Mike Ogle

[LEADFOOT]

sweet buggy!

I didn't even know Mike was still painting :)

[ImLow78]

I had to bribe him.... LoL!
By far he has done nothing but the absolute best paint a person could ask for! I feel honored that he would do the painting on my car! For that all I can say is Thanks!
I cant wait to see Grand Motor Sports take off for the guy. He has worked his butt off and he deserves it!!!

[standard_63]

Here's my Revo Crowdpleazer2.0
Tamiya Metallic Blue, bright silver
Pactra Red, Comp Orange, Daytona Yellow, backed w/sprint white
Hand torn 3M masks
Airbrush, Can

[standard_63]

and another...

[standard_63]

Timed out on the image edit on first post...

[standard_63]

:confused:

[standard_63]

Revo Crowdpleazer2.0
Tamiya Metallic Blue, bright silver
Pactra Red, Comp Orange, Daytona Yellow, backed w/sprint white
Hand torn 3M masks
Airbrush, Can

[Chewbacca]

Well compared to most of the entries here I believe mine is kinda "pale".

Oh well this is my FIRST time I've painted lexan. Somehow I've always had used cars in the past. Eventhough I started around 1991.

Oh yeah this is my Trinity Itsy Bitsy Spyder (I hate that name)

Chewie.

[Piggy89373]

Chewie, cool effect of the black on the red giving it a mottled almost marbled look.

[RespirologyRC]

Well my bulldog blew his ACL all the way so I had time to kill while I was waiting for the surgeon to give me a call. While waiting I painted this and figured that I would toss it into this competition.

Me being who i am stayed with my Micro bodies:)
Body: Proline 2.0 RC18t crowd pleazer
Paint: Spaz Stiz chrome (for the entire body), and Metalic blue and light blue, faswhite.

I got tired of doing yellow and red flames

[RespirologyRC]

And another pic

[tweakedbronco]

Here is a truck that I painted, It competes regularly at the NR/CTPA. Its a retro paintjob on a new truck. hope you like it

[FESTER2004]

tweakedbronco,where is yr pic????

[tweakedbronco]

Here ya go, there are also many more pics in the concorse d elegance post...those are the trucks I am most proud of.

[cuchytil]

That eye is great

[tweakedbronco]

Thanks, its actually wood....

[FESTER2004]

nice trucks!

[RidgewayBodies]

1/10th scale...
Associated T4 - ProLine Crowd Pleazer body
Associated B4 - OEM Interceptor body
Bob Dively Liquid masking - All hand cut
Paint used - Parma Faskolor and Createx Auto Air

http://www.ridgewaybodies.com/matt%20edgar/DSC02365.JPG
http://www.ridgewaybodies.com/matt%20edgar/DSC02366.JPG
another (http://www.ridgewaybodies.com/matt%20edgar/DSC02367.JPG)
and another (http://www.ridgewaybodies.com/matt%20edgar/DSC02368.JPG)

[Buggyracer28]

THOSE ARE SO SWEET!!!!! wow... I wish I could paint like that!!!! So awesome.

[standard_63]

Sa-weet RidgewayBodies! Those autoair colors sure are purty! I guess I'm gonna have to try them even though I just bought a bunch of pactra and tamiya paints...I thought the Tamiya paints were saturated and bright, but your flames really pop. :)

[Piggy89373]

And that concludes this month's competition. Adrcracing will judge and post up the results for the competition. Thanks to all who entered and best of luck.

[adrcracing]

1st Imlow78.........................Nice looking paint!
Design:9
Execution:9
Difficulty:9
Total:27

2nd RidgeWayBodies.........I like it, but to me it looks like the flames are fighting the rips somewhat. It looks fast, but in witch direction? Anyway your execution and difficulty gets you 2nd.
Design:7
Execution:9
Difficulty:9
Total:25

3rd Mel*E*Mel 2nd body...................Nice shadowing and detail.
Design:7
Execution:8
Difficulty:9
Total:24

4th Harley1874666..............Nice work, I would liked to have seen this over at the character comp.
Design:7
Execution:8
Difficulty:8
Total:23

5th JDAWG53
Design:7
Execution:8
Difficulty:7
Total:22

6th Farwar
Design:7
Execution:9
Difficulty:5
Total:21

7th TweakedBronco
Design:7
Execution:8
Difficulty:5
Total:20


8th Mystracing.......................Nice colors.
Design:6
Execution:8
Difficulty:5
Total:19

9th Mel*E*Mel 1st body......Also nice colors
Design:6
Execution:7
Difficulty:5
Total:18

10th RespirologyRC 2nd body.............Your in the top ten!
Design:5
Execution:6
Difficulty:6
Total:17

11th RespirologyRC 1st body.............Your out of the top ten! Nice work Resp.
Design:6
Execution:5
Difficulty:5
Total:16

12th Farwar
Design:4
Execution:6
Difficulty:4
Total:14

13th Mel*E*Mel The pink one
Design:4
Execution:5
Difficulty:4
Total:13

14th Bobf24
Design:4
Execution:4
Difficulty:4
Total:12

15th Chewbacca
Design:4
Execution:4
Difficulty:3
Total:11

16th Standard63
Design:2
Execution:2
Difficulty:6
Total:10

17th Twood 1st body
Design:3
Execution:3
Difficulty:3
Total:9

18th Twood 2nd body
Design:2
Execution:2
Difficulty:2
Total:6

19th FESTER2004 1st body
Design:2
Execution:2
Difficulty:1
Total:5

20th FESTER2004 2nd body..........Sorry Fester....Try to get a clear picture of what you want the paint job to look like first, and then paint it.
Design:1
Execution:2
Difficulty:1
Total:4




Congratulations to Imlow78, and thanks to all who participated.

[LEADFOOT]

Wow, not even on the list :(

[ImLow78]

WOW! :) This was a shock. I didn't even think I was in the competition. Just wanted to hear what ever1 thought about my 4x4 buggy.. This is a Honor! all I can say is Thanks! Shannon

[adrcracing]

Sorry LEADFOOT, your body was judged, but I screwed up when I posted. This changes everything below 12th.

12th LEADFOOT
Design:5
Execution:5
Difficulty:5
Total:15

[LEADFOOT]

I think I'd rather not be on the list :rolleyes:

[Buggyracer28]

Man... Leadfoot, I thought your body was going to be in the top 3... selling it? lol

[Farwar]

ditto, I thought his body was killer. A lot better then mine at 6th place. Congrats to the winner!

[ImLow78]

Farwar,
Thanks. But I never even thought that My buggy body would even come close to placing let alone winning. Shannon

[RidgewayBodies]

adrcracing,
The direction of the checkers are supposed to be up and over just the way you perceived them. That is exactly what one of my sponsored drivers wanted.

Thanks for the judging.

[FESTER2004]

thanks, i was trying to just run with the second body,tryn different things, tryn to break up the design to be different.thanks! congrats everyone!

[Piggy89373]

ImLow78, congratulations!! Thank you to all who entered.

ImLow78, despite having bought your body and not painted it, you're still announced as the winner and as such will be expected to judge the July Best Paint competition.

[ImLow78]

Piggy,
My body was not bought. I just have a good friend! I'll do my best to judge a winner for next month but I will ask for help from others. What If I would make it a pole and let the readers of the board help pick a winner? Is there any thing in the rules that say we can't do that. The reason I ask is because I haven't seen it done yet? is there any objections to that? Shannon

[Piggy89373]

ImLow78, YGPM.

[harley1874666]

wow, 4th is pretty good for an unfinished body :D . i wanted to finish it but i haven't had the time. my second job may be an end to my painting, i hope not but we'll see. thanks for the honor of being in the top 5 :)

[FESTER2004]

harley,nuttn against u ,but how does he come in 4th with a incomplete body n i have 2 finished 1's?????

the judge is entitled to his desicions but i am sure alot of us dont agree with it.leadfoots work was way better than some than finsihed ahead of him......i dunno its strange................................

[harley1874666]

no offense taken, it's only a contest. if i never would have been meantioned i'm fine with that too.

[Legend_Car]

no offense fester but look at harleys body and then look at yours. i bet it took longer for him to paint and cut the girl on top than it did for u to paint both of your bodies and besides your not the judge. its for fun anyways

[FESTER2004]

oh i know dont get me wrong........your right it is for fun! and i am not the judge......i am a newbe painter n i am sure harley has way more experiaciance than me ....i just thought some of the outcome would be a little different but i ant the judge!(nuttn to do with my entries) sorry! cant please everyone i guess,lol!

[RespirologyRC]

I guess I'll have to paint another body in order to achieve my goal of being #1

[Mel*E*Mel]

Don't paint it just have someone else paint it and you enter it ..seems to work ..
I thought this was a painting contest not showoff someone elses work contest...
Hey Harley don't worry bro once that thing is done it's going to be a killer ride!!! I'm loving it so far man

[calvin3]

Very nice bodies FarWar.




hahaha have someone else paint your body and win.

[Farwar]

Thanks calvin! I have more bodies then cars right now and I want to get more to practice on.

[ImLow78]

Hum......
I guess I Should say thanks Mel*E*Mel.....

[Mel*E*Mel]

sorry bro but i was just stating my opinion.. you know what they are like..lol

[calvin3]

Thanks calvin! I have more bodies then cars right now and I want to get more to practice on.

Yeah I have had that same problem for awhile.

http://home.comcast.net/~cal33/images/rc/bodes.jpg