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Title: Starting painting our marquee - type of paint needed?
Post by: RTSDaddy2 on March 25, 2006, 09:06:03 pm: Ok - so what would the best type of paint be to use as we create our marquee? We're painting on plexiglass and someone had told us acrylic...but when we tried it on a sample section, our gold paint looked black shining light through it. Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Title: Re: Starting painting our marquee - type of paint needed?
Post by: PoDunkMoFo on March 27, 2006, 12:43:07 am: I think it will be next to impossible to make a painted marquee to look good. Even if you could find the right paints to light up and look like you want you would be able to see every brush stroke and thickness difference.
Title: Re: Starting painting our marquee - type of paint needed?
Post by: Witchboard on March 27, 2006, 09:17:19 am: If you're painting it on the back, which I presume you are, the guy that made the Leon CP had great success with model paints. Do a search and he gives you a step by step on his website.
Title: Re: Starting painting our marquee - type of paint needed?
Post by: miles2912 on March 27, 2006, 11:50:22 pm: What I would do is use the same paints theu paint RC car bodies with. They paint the inside of the bodies to make em last and the paint looks and holds great. Any local hobby should should have it. The car bodies are polycarb (lexan) but it should stick to acryllic too.

Don
Title: Re: Starting painting our marquee - type of paint needed?
Post by: escher on May 23, 2006, 04:19:40 pm: Quote from: RTSDaddy2 on March 25, 2006, 09:06:03 pm
Ok - so what would the best type of paint be to use as we create our marquee? We're painting on plexiglass and someone had told us acrylic...but when we tried it on a sample section, our gold paint looked black shining light through it. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

How did this go? Any success, or did you scrap the idea of painting the marquee?