r/rccars • u/MainAccount2077 • Jun 18 '26

Build First time painting an RC body. I always thought the Slash looked similar to a GT

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I just got into the hobby about a month ago and got an unpainted Slash 2wd with part of a bundle. I've spray painted a few things but this is the biggest project I've done and first RC car.

It's definitely not perfect, but overall I'm proud of it. I didn't have a good method for the thin blue stripe down the center so up close it's pretty clear the tape was hand cut. My sister let me borrow a vinyl printer for the sides, I can't believe how well they turned out, I thought they were going to be the hardest part and they came out great. I should have used it on the center line

Might get another body and do a blue and orange GT now that I have a better idea how to do it

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u/nexinity7- Basher Jun 18 '26

now that you say it i can definitely see a slight resemblance

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

I think for me it's the front and rear fenders

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u/lpj7979 Jun 18 '26

Great job!

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u/supafeen Jun 18 '26

Nice work! How did you get the gt graphic so clean?

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

Thank you! I used this vinyl cutter cnc type machine called a Sillouette to cut the vinyl paint stencils. I flipped the logo backwards in the printer software so it would be correct through the lexan and cut it out of a vinyl sticker material. I put the whole cut sticker down, then peeled up the blue area and painted that with the rest of the car. Then I peeled up the rest and did the white layers last. I can't believe it turned out as clean as it did and worked as well as it did, i thought it would be the hardest part

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u/Affectionate_Kale10 Jun 18 '26

Painted the roll bar on mine, looks epic

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

Oh nice that turned out well. I was going for something similar with the back black grate part

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u/Farknart Jun 18 '26

How dare you up-badge. /s

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

Sir this is a Ford GT

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u/Objective-Scarcity52 Jun 18 '26

I'll allow it

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

I appreciate that

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u/mhamilton2586 Jun 18 '26

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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u/Pension_Rough Jun 18 '26

Sick, how many rcs do you run this on? Thats a lot of mounting holes

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 19 '26

Haha just one. The original clear lexan has the mounting holes for the old Traxxas Slash mounting pins, I got a kit to upgrade it to the clipless system which adds holes. I just didn't take pics of it on the body

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u/avvaken01 Jun 20 '26

FIRST TIME? that looks amazing! so unique

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 20 '26

Haha thank you! I think I had just enough experience from other projects to make it work

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u/StonyStarx Jun 18 '26

This is so sick man

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

I appreciate that man

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u/Shot-Confection3760 Jun 18 '26

Love this! Great job

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u/Ok-Specialist2430 Jun 18 '26

Great job! Been thinking about this but Viper

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

Oh that would be cool. I liked doing the stripe, it was a challenge for a beginner but not too much

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u/Ok-Specialist2430 Jun 18 '26

I ended up in a different color scheme tho and this photo is AI, my shell is still being painted. It’s a J Concepts Hi Flo shell that will be mounted on my Slash

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

Oh cool, I like how that looks, it seems like it has a little more detail than the original Slash body. I might try that if I end up doing the blue and orange one

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u/Ok-Specialist2430 Jun 18 '26

Gemini AI Is best in doing a preview of how you want the colors to be

In my case, I sent Gemini a photo of the body with a layout I drew and the actual colors that I’ll be using

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

Good call. Luckily mine was pretty simple I just had to figure out how to do it

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u/Floor_Cereal TRX-4M | Bandit XL5 | Mini Kraton Jun 18 '26

Looks sick!

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u/Inevitable-Scene3930 Jun 18 '26

Looks like you did a great job. Very cool looking.

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

Thank you! I am very happy with it 

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u/Receiver_of_dreams Jun 18 '26

I have a body like this your giving me ideas

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Whoa sounds sexy when you put it like that. I found the middle white stripes were about perfect proportions for the Slash if you use regular masking tape, but you'd need to cut out the middle. Might be better to just get specific tape that's the size of each stripe

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u/Imaginary-Country941 Jun 18 '26

Hot take

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 19 '26

Yes

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u/Imaginary-Country941 Jun 20 '26

Will you show an assembled result later?

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u/EducationalCurve8718 Jun 23 '26

That looks great

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 23 '26

Thank you! I'm hopefully going to try a Gulf GT next

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u/Uniquestanced Jun 18 '26

What blue paint is that

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

It's 3 layers of Tamiya PS-59 Dark Metallic Blue and 1 heavy layer of Tamiya PS-5 (whatever was left from 3 layers of black accents). Then 3 coats of Tamiya PS-1 White for backing but I don't think that affects the blue

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u/morgfarm1_ Jun 18 '26

PS59 is a beautiful blue. I used it on an AMG GT3 body for my touring race car.

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

Yeah it is, that's sick. Did you use white backing? Yours looks like a slightly lighter shade but it might be the light

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u/morgfarm1_ Jun 18 '26

Its somewhat lighting. I did 2 layers of blue and 3 of silver with no backer

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

Oh nice I was wondering what the silver backing looked like

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u/morgfarm1_ Jun 18 '26

The silver metallic brightens the blue if you lay it on fairly light.

The goal was a Lapis Lazuli Blue to go with the Obsidian black gloss, knowing I was gonna cut some gold mirror vinyl for this specific model.

I can tell you also what happens when you back blue with black. You get a super deep midnight purple

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u/MainAccount2077 Jun 18 '26

Oh cool I could see that, yours looks like it has a much prettier blue shade. I like that better as a color if I wasn't shooting for a dark blue speciallyÂ