Re: HA's 52 200 Grey Ghost

Posted by Larry51 On 2016/3/1 7:26:06

I went to the local auto paint shop and they had some special very bright, very transparent red which was the exact same shade as you would use for repainting faded tail-light lenses. But it wasn't for that. It was intended for high-end air-brushing or a sexy paint job on a hot rod etc. Very expensive at $30 for around 4ozs.Uses normal thinners like Dulon etc.

Don't remember the brand name but I can try and find the bottle if you want. It might have come from the US originally.

I tried a few ways of painting it on a piece of thin plastic and the best outcome was painting the chrome-look details with the finger-nail brush (very fine, worked well) then I sprayed the red over the rest of the plastic with one of those small aerosol 'test sprayers'. Called a 'Pre Val Spray Gun' made by the Precision Valve Corporation in Yonkers, USA. Handy, because you don't want to use a full-size gun . . . an air brush would also do the job well.

Then where you want red and the chrome showing behind it you do the reverse, just brushing the silver over the back carefully but not too much so as to lift the red. Spraying it would have been better but I just brushed it and was pleased with the result, because you are not looking 'through' the plastic so don't see imperfections.

Most of the old chrome and red had peeled off the lens so I scraped the remaining loose stuff off best as I could. It turned out nice.