October Best Paint

[HRDforever]

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/4899/paintcomp7lk.jpg (http://rc411.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=16)
Alright...its time for the october Best Paint Competition! Once again just read all the rules...try to keep the harsh/inapropriate comments to yourself...and just have fun like always! Enter at will...enjoy
-Dan

October Best Paint Competition
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-All contestiants from all countries are allowed to enter, there are no restrictions on age or anything like that.
-Derek will Judge the Competition or other editors will judge.
-No offending bodies will be allowed in this competition
-any kind of body is accepted, cars boats trucks, anything!
-You must submit 5 photos of your car, they must be as listed below:
-One or more of the body mounted
-no photo editing! Cropping is only allowed
-This competition is just for fun (except you may get in the mag)
-The competition will end the at midnight est on the last day of the event
-You can use this format for the information on your body/paint job:
-Name of the project (your name is not requried)
-Name of paints used on the body
-Body Manufacture
-Inspiration
-This information can change at anytime without any prior notice, please chack back before entering the competitions.
-ONE OR MORE BODY PER ENTRY (in diffrent posts)
Please contact me for more information!
PRIZE
I got word from Derek that the winners Body will be put into the Magizine!
www.XXXmain.com will be awarding a DVD of choice to the winner!

-Dan
Fyre Designs

RULES: Void where prohibited. Valid in the USA, Canada and Mexico and where ever else. No purchase necessary. Action figures do not walk and talk.

OUR OFFICAL RECORDS:
Septemeber hold the record for the most replies: 93 (as of 10-3-05)
June July hold the record for most views: 2,597 (as of 10-3-05)
Sponsors:
www.xxxmain.com
"xxx main Racing" is sponsoring the competition each month and that the prize is a free xxx main DVD of choice.

Ads:
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http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2434/redxxx9xw.jpg (http://xxxmain.com)

News:

Quote from Derek:
September competition:
Since you guys are putting the time and effort in, I'm going to try and make this happen this month. In our next issue (December 2005) I'm going to make the Custom Works Colum feature the bodies in these paint contest. I might not be able to feature them all, but I want to try and get them in there as inspriration.

Now I can't promise this as 100% yet, because I do have a planned article, but I think it would be cool to show our readers of the print magazine your hard work on line."RC411 Paint Competition!"
Quote for page 25 of spet issue:
"Think that you can paint? Most of us can barely get two colors to match, but some of you can throw down a paint scheme that could be right at home on a church ceiling. So we want to see if you have got what it takes by entering our new monthly painting contest on our website. Check out the forums and hit up the painting section for guidelines and rules. The winner will be featured here [the mag] and win a free 6 month subscription of XRC!"
"www.rc411.com"
Quote from Derek:
"Don't forget that you guys still need to send the pictures in to our Racer Ride section. You can win a year subscription and some other junk like a Tee Shirt and XXX Main Video if you're pick the winner of the month."

"Send all Racers' Rides pics to derekb@rc411.com. Put "Racers' Rides" in the subject line."

Sorry about this, but the winner of last months comp is not in the november issue, because Derek was out of the country and could not get it in the magizine.

Winners:

June/July Best Paint:
RCpaint or Keith Harris from Scotia, NY!!!!!!

September Paint:
dsilver668
Prize of Choice: "How To Paint" a $14.99 value (USD)

Links:
www.HPIracing.com
www.TowerHobbies.com
www.Traxxas.com
www.ehobbies.com
www.cenracing.com
www.stormerhobbies.com
www.rc411.com
www.jacksonrcracing.com
www.prolineracing.com
www.hobbymasters.com
www.xxxmain.com
www.teamtrinity.com
www.drift.org
www.roarracing.com
www.megatech.com
www.google.com
www.teamassociated.com
www.video.google.com
www.yokomousa.com
www.maps.google.com
Wallpapers (http://rc411.com/forum/showthread.php?t=539)
The main Link Page For RC11.com
http://rc411.com/pages/links.php

I ran out of room to past any more pictures up on this post so others will follow...

Contest Operation By: Daniel Hurrey

[HRDforever]

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8131/october5yd.jpg (http://www.rc411.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7065#post7065)

[HRDforever]

Created a New AD!
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/58/win5jv.jpg (http://rc411.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&f=16)

[rcpaint]

I just picked up this used Maverick Pan Car on Friday, before installing a motor and electronics I panted this body. The unpainted body was thrown in with the deal, it is a Proto-Form Dodge Intrepid (I think). The paints used were Parma FasKolor Flourescent Yellow, Flourescent Green, Green, Black, White and Beige, The border on the flames is Spaz Stiks Mirror Chrome. The only decals are the headlights, taillights, window net, window air scoops, front grill and the small dodge emblem on the hood. I am a sucker for skulls and this skull with the Ram horns kinda reminded me of the Dodge Ram logo. So what do think?

[HRDforever]

cool body...and car...

[kremerica]

Hi,

Paints: I used only Parma's Faskolors, No repainted labels or stickers beside the ones that are supplied with the Protoform body.
Superman figure and lightning are completely painted by me (See my signature on the side of the painted body), using Manco masking tape only.
The dark blue color is very similar to the original dark blue Mazda's color by having mixture colors of blue and black.
The body is Mazda 6 (200mm) manufactured by Protoform.
The inspiration came from my son who likes very much Superman movies.

I hope you liked it because this car "flies" on the racing truck.

Do I have to plac this pictures some where else beside here?
Gabby.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6186/dscf00109wu.th.jpg (http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf00109wu.jpg)http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/792/gsm46xx.th.jpg (http://img212.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gsm46xx.jpg)http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/3218/gsm28bd.th.jpg (http://img358.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gsm28bd.jpg)http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/9955/gsm50xf.th.jpg (http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gsm50xf.jpg)

[HRDforever]

Hi,

Paints: I used only Parma's Faskolors, No repainted labels or stickers beside the ones that are supplied with the Protoform body.
Superman figure and lightning are completely painted by me (See my signature on the side of the painted body), using Manco masking tape only.
The dark blue color is very similar to the original dark blue Mazda's color by having mixture colors of blue and black.
The body is Mazda 6 (200mm) manufactured by Protoform.
The inspiration came from my son who likes very much Superman movies.

I hope you liked it because this car "flies" on the racing truck.

Do I have to plac this pictures some where else beside here?
Gabby.

if you mean post them up anywhere else, no...

[dsilver668]

Those are sweet..
The skull rocks!!!
I like the Superman as well.. Man now I have to get my skill level up.. :D

[rcpaint]

Dsilver668, What do you mean get your skills up? I'd say they are already up there, in fact I have been very impressed with all of the paint jobs posted. I look forward to checking this forum to see what people are up to. Thanks to XTreme RC, XXX Main and most of all Hrdforever for making this competition happen.

[HRDforever]

Thanks to XTreme RC, XXX Main and most of all Hrdforever for making this competition happen.
Thanx for the complement...and more will come...

[dsilver668]

Yeah I give a two thumbs up for HRP to take the time to get this going..
Believe me I have a long way to go. Cutting out printer graphics is one thing, but doing free hand work like the rams skull is much harder. I need to get my equipment dialed in better. I am practicing now on paper for my next paint job. It should be really out of this world..
HR Gigers alien will be the insperation.

[HRDforever]

Yeah I give a two thumbs up for HRP to take the time to get this going..
Believe me I have a long way to go. Cutting out printer graphics is one thing, but doing free hand work like the rams skull is much harder. I need to get my equipment dialed in better. I am practicing now on paper for my next paint job. It should be really out of this world..
HR Gigers alien will be the insperation.
Thax for the compliment again...but just look at how my name is spelt...lol

[HRDforever]

look i found some aliens for ya...
some are great for avatars
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/59/14528046av.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/5383/alien8ix.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[dsilver668]

HA!!! sorry I was typing fast. Usually I can get it right, but today, I can't type worth a damn.. :rolleyes:

Too cool...
I am searching through Google looking for images to use as reference. these will be painted not printed this time..

[HRDforever]

some more...
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/8108/alien30un.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/7575/m9622734778dd.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/6526/rb1512uh.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[rcpaint]

You sure can learn alot on this forum, last month I learned who Giger was, now he is the inpiration for an upcoming paint scheme, does it get any better?

[kremerica]

Those are sweet..
The skull rocks!!!
I like the Superman as well.. Man now I have to get my skill level up.. :D

Thanks for your compliment.
I think you made very nice job, the proof to that is that you won last month. ;)
Gabby

[dsilver668]

Noproblem Gabby.. Yeah I like the fact there is a lot of interaction between the painters. I would love it id Douge Summers and some other folks would get involved too. I know they run businesses, and for folks like RCPAINT they are competition, but in the end this is about the art. Hope to see some more killer paint jobs posted soon.. :D

[rcpaint]

I agree with DSILVER668, it is all about the fun. I like painting as much if not more than running my RC cars and trucks. In the Northeast if you dont run carpet in the Winter, you dont run, so painting is another way to pass the long Winter months and keep involved in RC.

[TWIZTID]

HI ALL THIS IS A SIMPLE ONE BUT I LIKE THE PICS CUZ IT LOOKS REAL !!!
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6854/picture0478no.th.jpg (http://img186.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture0478no.jpg)
THIS IS A HPI RALLY CAR WITH A NOVAK SS BRUSHLESS , AND IT B PACKEN THE HEAT WITH SPINNERZ

[TWIZTID]

Sorry I Thought I Had More Pics But I Dont , I Will Get More Pics

[nitroracerx7]

There are some seriously great looking bodies posted this month! Thank Y'all for sharing your hard work, and great ideas! I would like to submit my Porsche "Lemans" GT-1 for this month's contest.
I've used all "Faskolor" paints for this project. Starting with a bit of pearl black shading fading into violet on the front. The body was then coated with scrabbeus flip. Starting in the rear, I've used violet, fading into fluorescent blue, into sky blue, then back into fluorescent blue, into the violet in front. I've used fluorescent orange on the edges of that series of stripes fading into a fluorescent yellow center. The green stripes are done with pearl green edges fading into teal, then into fluorescent green...then finally fluorescent yellow to finish. The front of the car has a thin coat of color change blue then white (x2) under it all to give the fluorescent paints that 'pop' white always provides. I've coated it with a medium coat of "Faskoat" to finish it out. <-That stuff makes it easier to clean the body from slick dust, etc. as well as keeping it solvent resistant...just in case...ô¿ô=
This HPI Porsche GT-1 body is mounted on my Associated TC-4 chassis, and seems to sit quite low. Even though it's a 200mm body it looks Okay to me..it also seems to handle a little better with such a low center of gravity. Keeps the 'hackers' from T-Boning my electrics so hard at the track a bit better too(?). I also love the two piece rear spoiler with this kit, as I'm able to match the stripes both top and bottom. I've used RIT dye on the Pro Line "Gumby" wheels -Thanks for the cool 'dye trick'!- I've also made the roof scoop functional, to help provide more cool air -without 'tire bugers'- to my Trinity cooling fan, in hopes of a little more power, longer run times, and less comm/brush maintenance. Thanks for all of the great tips and tricks in your magazine! Without them..and the many great pix, this paint work wouldn't be remotely possible. I must admit, this contest also motivates me to try a little bit harder than I otherwise might be inclined to...ô¿ô-Smile-
Thanks again,
Nitroracerx7

[BlackMagicRacing]

that is very nice

[JIMCRAWLER]

heres my entry,all done with rattle cans.its competion orange, backed up with white, then blk.i know it wont win but,here it is

[dsilver668]

Twizt, nitroracerx7, and Jim, those are some sweet rides.. :D
Keep em coming.. We need everyone to submit..

[HRDforever]

Twizt, nitroracerx7, and Jim, those are some sweet rides.. :D
Keep em coming.. We need everyone to submit..
thats for sure! Let me know if when you get the mag, if anything is in the mag...If there is something, if you would not mind, can you please send it to me at HRDforever@aol.com Like a scan of it or something?

Thanx
Dan

[markarch]

Here is my submission for October.
It is a crowd pleazer for the traxxas rustler. I called it Sassy-Sadie. I painted it for my mom's rustler. It represents the two things she loves in life her dog.....Sadie......and her rustler.....Sassy-Sadie. The paint is Fastpearl Key Lime and Rasberry. I used XXX lexan glue and color copies of the dog I made from the 1000's of pictures she has of her dog. Hope you guys like it.

[rcpaint]

Wow! Seeing the recent paint submissions is a humbling experiance. Everybody has picked it up a notch. This is great!

[HRDforever]

I agree with you on that!...man there was an explosison of entrants! Amazing...keep up the good work!

Thanx
Dan

[HRDforever]

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8131/october5yd.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[bordin34]

U spelt magazine wrong

[Obsessive R/C]

Hey guys,
I'm new to this forum and thought I'd give this months contest a shot.

This is my Traxxas Revo that I put toghether to try my hand at racing locally this year. Being a basher at heart I really wanted to try my hand at something a little more competitive.Growing up around custom cars and hot rods has seemed to rub off in wanting all of my rides to stand out in a crowd or on the race track.

I chose a Parma X-Citer body and used all Faskolor paints. Liquid masking and over nine different colors were used including Faslucent yellow, blue, purple, orange, Faspearl gold, Faspearl white, Faspearl silver and Faschange violet all backed with Faskrome satin and coated with Faskoat to protect it from fuel and scratches.

Click and enlarge to see detail...

If I need to include anything else, please let me know.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/Revo/th_000_0882.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/Revo/000_0882.jpg)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/Revo/th_000_0877.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/Revo/000_0877.jpg)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/Revo/th_000_0876.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/Revo/000_0876.jpg)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/th_000_0872.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/000_0872.jpg)

[Obsessive R/C]

The other 2 pics...For some reason it would only allow 4 IMG per post.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/th_000_0870.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/000_0870.jpg)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/th_000_0869.jpg (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y184/gsc1971/000_0869.jpg)

[HRDforever]

nice body!...i like your color choices@!

[team3six]

This is My Street Force GP2
I just got into this about a year ago and after reading XRC for a while I have really got into this. I own now 5 Rc cars and My wife hate em!. But hey this is way fun. I have a natural art talent so this allows me to be creative. Sooner or later I will get into something wild. but for this being my first try I was rather happy with it.
This is a Protoform Mazda 6
Painted with pactra Neon Green, Outlaw Black and Hybrid Purple
I used a Spaz Stix mask from the 7 Deadly sins set called Greed
and layed it out with decals from XXXMain, JaDesigns.com, OS and XRC
Other things include changing a couple of the car things to Bling it out. and a couple of performance products because what is the case of making it pretty if it isnt pretty fast too!

[Dave]

I had Jason take some photos for me. :D

[BlazinB4]

wow dave that looks great! if u were to see the body off the truck it would look wierd with thoes odonnel stickers on it. lol

[Dave]

wow dave that looks great! if u were to see the body off the truck it would look wierd with thoes odonnel stickers on it. lol

Thanks

Yeah, and those Novarossi stickers would look weird too..

[BlazinB4]

lol ya, 1st thing that would come to mind is NOOB!. lol

heres some i just finished up... guess who theyre for..

[Skeeno]

This is My Street Force GP2
I just got into this about a year ago and after reading XRC for a while I have really got into this. I own now 5 Rc cars and My wife hate em!. But hey this is way fun. I have a natural art talent so this allows me to be creative. Sooner or later I will get into something wild. but for this being my first try I was rather happy with it.
This is a Protoform Mazda 6
Painted with pactra Neon Green, Outlaw Black and Hybrid Purple
I used a Spaz Stix mask from the 7 Deadly sins set called Greed
and layed it out with decals from XXXMain, JaDesigns.com, OS and XRC
Other things include changing a couple of the car things to Bling it out. and a couple of performance products because what is the case of making it pretty if it isnt pretty fast too!
I found another SFGP owner. Yeah for us!

[HRDforever]

cool bodies!...well keep it up...and for Dave...hmmmmmmmmm

[Dave]

cool bodies!...well keep it up...and for Dave...hmmmmmmmmm

Hmmmmmm what? Why are you Hmmmmm-ing? :confused: ;)

[HRDforever]

hmmmmmmm...

[Dave]

Hmmmmmmmmm

[team3six]

Well I listed my first car so I finally finished my second one and decided to post it too.. This is my DuraTrax Evader ST.
Not much to the features because you are only limited to so much with DuraTrax
It the basic Crowd Pleazer Evader body with Pactra paints and The Spaz Stix mask
color kits by DuraTrax and a couple of upgrades. It's kinda hard to tell but the paint is actually sharp on the body, it seems that the Neon green is a bit over powering so it kinda is gleaming giving it a hazy look.

[Jason Yu]

You sure can learn alot on this forum, last month I learned who Giger was, now he is the inpiration for an upcoming paint scheme, does it get any better?

This I gotta see.

[nitroracerx7]

that is very nice


Thanx for the compliment

[team3six]

Thanks skeeno for the Street Force support. And Congrads on the LST. It is indeed a great RC Truck. I am sure you will be suprised if you have not driven one yet. NOW WILL SOME ONE PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS ANCIENT THUNDER KING!!! And Now back to our program allready in progress.

[dsilver668]

Great work everyone lets keep it up! :D
I am going to get a new buggy body for my Jammin an hopefully it wil be a kick butt alien theme, i.e. Giger.
Still working on the layout etc, but hopefully I will get it in next month.

[RCFX]

Nice bodies!

[team3six]

Thanks for the compliment. If it was headed to me, haha.

[HRDforever]

Sorry for being late...i just got my permit today...so this is the end of the comp, ill notify Derek once away....

Dan

[team3six]

Dan, just wondering who won Octobers contest?

[HRDforever]

just so everyone knows...i told Derek to judge...so where is he, i do not know...

Dan

[dsilver668]

hhmmm Last I saw he was getting all stary eyed with the cashier girl at Chipotles.. LOL
Just kidding man!! :D

[DerekB]

Here is my submission for October.
It is a crowd pleazer for the traxxas rustler. I called it Sassy-Sadie. I painted it for my mom's rustler. It represents the two things she loves in life her dog.....Sadie......and her rustler.....Sassy-Sadie. The paint is Fastpearl Key Lime and Rasberry. I used XXX lexan glue and color copies of the dog I made from the 1000's of pictures she has of her dog. Hope you guys like it.


Sorry Guys the past two months have been loaded, so I'm trying to catch up with other things.


I'm picking this as the winner, anybody that can get a picture of their dog into a cool paint job is okay in my book.

I also need a list of winners so I can make sure they get what's coming to them.

Markarch and HRD drop me an email....PMs aren't may thing so please email


derekb@rc411.com

[markarch]

Derek,
Thanks so much for the win. I am really excited right now. I know my mom (the owner of the paintjob and rustler) will be too. We were just out running our cars but some thunderstorms started rolling in so we called it a day. Thanks to all the competitors for making this competition possible and giving us all motivation to keep on trying new and exciting paint jobs. We're all winners!!!!!!!!

[dsilver668]

Sweet paint job MarkArch. I think that is so cool your mom is into RC..
Kudos to everyone else who submited as well.. Now I need to get working on my new paint job.. LOL :D