Custom H22 Rocker covers

Crazy_C · Post by **Crazy_C** » Mon May 07, 2012 7:24 pm

Ratty, if it helps, I've painted wrinkle red rockers before. What I did is I painted them, let the paint dry naturally for 12 hours, and then I baked it, and then let it cool down for the wrinkles to really come through.

I need to do this to my rocker cover at some point!

taz8520 · Post by **taz8520** » Mon May 07, 2012 8:06 pm

Do you need to under coat the high temp wrinkle paint ?

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Mon May 07, 2012 8:48 pm

I would and did with an etch primer. Honda didn't.

Post by **Donald** » Mon May 07, 2012 9:24 pm

Can Mr Ratty do flip paint?! (don't even know if that's the right term but whatever!)

EDIT: I do realise it's a but Fast and the Furious but I'm curious

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Mon May 07, 2012 9:36 pm

Flip paint is just pearl. ALL pearls are flips but then you get the extremes like Nissan Micra Aztec
BUT for example The Nissan Aztec uses a toner called Magenta to gold which id have to order specially in at around £15. I dont carry all flip pearls. But they shouldnt be a problem to do..

What colour did you have in mind?

Post by **4thgenphil** » Mon May 07, 2012 9:40 pm

can you do the heat reactive paint like the old matchbox cars?

NCCMUR · Post by **NCCMUR** » Mon May 07, 2012 9:40 pm

RattyMcClelland wrote:Flip paint is just pearl. ALL pearls are flips but then you get the extremes like Nissan Micra Aztec
BUT for example The Nissan Aztec uses a toner called Magenta to gold which id have to order specially in at around £15. I dont carry all flip pearls. But they shouldnt be a problem to do..

What colour did you have in mind?

which is the current colour of my phone cover

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Mon May 07, 2012 9:44 pm

4thgenphil wrote:can you do the heat reactive paint like the old matchbox cars?

I dont have that in my paint system, its one of the 1st things i asked when i was trained. But it would be cool.

bristol_bb4 · Post by **bristol_bb4** » Mon May 07, 2012 9:44 pm

4thgenphil wrote:can you do the heat reactive paint like the old matchbox cars?

omfg that would be so win! i loved those bad boys

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Mon May 07, 2012 9:54 pm

4thgenphil wrote:can you do the heat reactive paint like the old matchbox cars?

I looked into doing this for my project's VC. You can get the stuff... You paint the under-colour on first (obviously) and then paint the special paint on top which covers the first colour up entirely, but when heated (normally over 30 degrees C) it turns invisble revealing the colour beneath. I was going to shave off the DOHC VTEC from the valve cover and then paint it back on and then cover the whole thing with the special paint. Trouble is there's a minimum order of the stuff and it'd set you back hundreds of pounds

There is a water-based version for doing hand painting with though

Now if you could find a paint to achieve this without the need for plating, I'd be interested

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