Chroming your XMod, any way you like!

[FlaminG35]

As any car lover will know, chrome looks really good on a lot of things. Chroming out your XMod is extremely simple, auctually. First off, here are the needed supplies:

Chrome Paint (found at hobby stores nationwide)
Toothpick (just look in your kitchen cabinets)
Your XMod (duh)

Step#1: Gather all of your materials and find a good place to work

Step#2: Open the can of chrome paint

Step#3ip your toothpick in the paint

Step#4: Now drag your toothpick across whatever you want chromed

Step#5: If no more paint on toothpick, re-dip into paint and start from Step#4 again.

Step#5: Place your XMod bodie back onto your XMod chassis

Step#6: Step back and admire your car (you can drool if you like , but NOT ON THE PAINT!!!)

Step#7: Let the paint dry for about an hour or two

Step#8: There are no more steps


This works on ANY XMod body, obviously, and any model car bodie for that matter. YOU CAN ALSO APPLY THIS TO THE CHASSIS . You could put some of this chrome paint on say, the front towers, and say, put on a clear hood... That looks really awesome. Look out for my other posts, where I'll show you how to make a clear hood! Hope this helped you deck-out ur XMod!

[joshm101]

hey dude i dont think this wil lwork . if you paint with a toothpick it wil lturn out uneven , orangepeely , and , there may be some runs.

[punishment]

now i have a question, why a toothpick and not a paintbrush?

[FlaminG35]

I went to HobbyLobby and they didn't have any brushes that would suit the extreme tiny amount of detail I wanted . I've always used a toothpick for this kind of stuff because it has a very small point at the end . And if you know how to paint correctly, then nothing you paint with will run , look uneven , or be all peely . Got any more questions?

[blindman8]

where Did You Look In Hobby Lobby







Did You Look In The Paint Or Model Section

[valkrie hunter]

hey...get a paintbrush...one that is like.. 1/38??...or..those small ones...with
the super small points, that works like a charm. another thing, let the thing
try before you do anything....let the paint dry, then put the body back onto
the chassis....otherwise, wait till the paint dries, and drool all over yourself
to "how great you painted the car" or "OMG!! I DID THIS MYSELF!" type things
people say

[cc3dmax]

got any pics?

[joshm101]

oic youre doing details , i thought you meant the whole car lmfao

[Stormin2u]

OK, I'm not quite ready for that.

[RodsRUs]

Ya I dont pay any more than 2 for a buck for thoes little fine line brushes just go to the doller store!

[FlaminG35]

You guys might think that those work, but I'm talking about a quick alternative to an extremely small-brusheled paint brush. I timed it out, and I can finish chroming my XMod, and have the paint half-way through the reccommended drying stage before I even get home WITH the paintbrush.

Out to blindman8, I usually look in the paint section. Sometimes they might have some of these in the model section, though. By the "paint" section, I mean the model paint section with all the little bottles of model paint.

[Team AMG]

I have never found a chrome paint that was worth the money in more than 30 years of building plastic models. Paintbrushes are measured in numbers, a 5-O (OOOOO) is an extremely fine tip, you could do even more with a striping wick, both sell for less than $7. As far as paint drying, no enamel paint of any quality will be dry in an hour unless it's force dried by heat. That's a fact. I use a food dehydrator for projects to force paint dry, and you have to be careful because it will orange peal if you dry it too fast.

There are two ways you can do this properly, neither of them involve toothpicks:

1. Bare Metal Chrome Foil. This stuff is a .005 mil thin sheet of aluminum with an adhesive backing. It forms to corners easily and with a little work can be made to look good. Practice on a POS body first.

2. The best method is to send the car to a plastic parts chroming service such as plasti-chrome in Iowa, for $15 they will chrome the body with the same quality of model car chrome.

But the question begs, other than the pic above, why chrome it? Chrome shows all finger prints, it scratches easily, and unless allowed to completely cure, chrome paint sucks. Now, chrome accents are cool, and I may try something like that sometime in the future, but leave the chrome for the '59 Eldorado's.

[FlaminG35]

ya know, I don't think anybody whos replied yet even gets what I'm talking about. I'M TALKING ABOUT A CHEAP ALTERNATIVE FOR YOUR SHOW BODIES. It scratches easily, which is why I DON'T USE IT ON MY DRIVING BODY. There. NOW I hope everybody gets what I'm talking about. I'm talking about doin this stuff to like your winshield wipers on your xmod, and the door handles. That stuff that is very small. JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION!!! By a show body, I mean the one that you take pictures of. Your show body should be the exact same type of body as your driving body, or it would just be stupid.

[RodsRUs]

Then whats the point on having a show body?? just use a $15 model to do that with!

[Team AMG]

If I'm going to take the time to have a "show body" I'm not cutting corners on it's appearance. I'll use the best stuff I can get, and if I can't afford it I'll save up til I can. But OK, you have inspired me to a degree.

I have a project in the works, a slammed F-150, with the orange body, ground effect lighting, etc. I'm going to work up some chrome foil graphics for it, so look for it in about 3 weeks...

[xmodkidd33]

owww!!! my eyes!!! its too shiny!!! oh... wait.. sorry...

[adam]

the tooth pick works great on detailing i just tried it

[solcat]

tooth pics work just fine this, is old school mod at its finest pulling out all teh stops with little cash