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Billboards - Yellow Paint?
Has anyone gone with Yellow, versus painting the letters White?
Ranger offers Yellow, Red, Green, Blue and, of course White which is also needed as the base color when any of the other colors are used. Here's an example... http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4...7r02bym2md.jpg |
Quite the Photoshopped pic, but those tires look like the Cup/Nascar radials variety. For some reason GY makes the letters almost perfect on them right from the molds, and in yellow. If they offered those same tires in white letters, I'm pretty certain that many would flock to them for cobras as tghe sizes are close to the traditional Billboards.
I recall one person (named Bill?) that did the yellow letter thing to his FFR and posted pictures. But I have no references to share. |
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http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/5...7r01bym2md.jpg |
Is that a polished aluminum body? It looks so grey but still shinny in those pics. Cool affect.
John |
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As for the body - it sure looks like polished aluminum - perhaps the grey is part of 'painting' assuming that it's a painting, not a picture of a real Cobra. Whatever it is - awesome look. |
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Look through the front wheel slots. If that was real, you would not be able to see the stairs or brick wall. |
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GT5 - Classic Cars Premium on #Gran-Turismo-Life - deviantART Anyway - my interest is in the yellow lettering - looks cool to me. |
OK, so I decided to use yellow paint on my Billboards - I like it, but may be the only one.....
http://imageshack.us/a/img703/5949/c...illboards2.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img580/1507/c...billboards.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img546/1518/c...illboards3.jpg |
Very nicely done. Did you have to clean off the old while paint with something before doing the yellow?
Thanks Bill D |
Thanks.
No, since using yellow (Ranger Paint) requires the white paint - used as a base coat. In my case, since the white was already on the tires, it was fast and easy to apply the yellow given that the borders were already 'traced' and easily re-traced with yellow. If anyone else tries this - consider purchasing a small quality brush from a hobby store and consider also purchasing a pack of Touch-Up Paint Applicators, 25 Count from Touch-Up Paint Applicators, 25 Count - Griot's Garage The Griot applicators are great for tracing letter edges with white or yellow without having to mask off letters. Of course, a steady hand is a real plus - not so steady in my case. |
Bliss,
How has the paint stood up? What size are your fronts they seem to have a big bulge? Cheers |
The yellow is holding up surprisingly well. I did put another coat on, but that's easy once the first coat is done.
The fronts are 26.5 X 8.0 - 15. |
Yellow paint is on slicks, is much better with no touch-up needed.
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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7296/8...d971a6a1db.jpg As you can see in the picture Avon are just black sidewalls, they look kinda plain to me. While the yellow on the slicks needs no touch up, they look great. I also redid my white on the GoodYears with Ranger paint. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7368/8...7358df370d.jpg At least my trailer is self propelled, haha. |
That makes sense, thanks. Some folks here love the "treatment" that is applied by Goodyear on the billboards coming out of the factory - looks like a stencil is used - a little off with paint applied quickly just to end up with a while lettering look a high speed, I suppose. Anyway, it doesn't work for me - so I went with white and now yellow with a cleaner look. I'm also amazed that Goodyear can't replicate the yellow lettering slick 'quality' on billboards. They are both not for street use. Goodyear has been contacted - they don't care.
By the way, those pictures show lots of great stuff. |
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