Got the 8480 mask in today, looks good, well cut, nice crisp/clean lines.
I had been trial fitting them with an unpainted Traxxas Dodge Ram body and observed exactly the same size discrepancy Daholla pointed out but simply around the hood, the doorway and roof masks were just as you can see them within the picture and diagram above. I Then checked body and site on the colored Pro-Line Desert Rat and old AE short course physiques. It seems the dimensions is not really the issue, it's more the form from the hood, fenders, door/window and car windows on certain physiques. The hood mask looked just a little big around the Ram body, but fit the Desert Rat and AE physiques far better. Both of them convey more hood area and fewer car windows compared to Ram body. The Ram includes a considerably longer car windows and shorter hood so placing the mask on it might be just a little tricky to obtain the full aftereffect of the look. The doorway mask would want some careful placement around the Desert Rat using the form of the doorway and home windows, however the whole mask set will fit the stock AE body all right.
Since I will be by using this mask focused on a professional-Line Flo-Tek I should not have trouble, the hood onto it appears lengthy enough within the pictures, and also the door appears like it comes down to identical to the Ram and AE physiques. I'll know without a doubt once the body arrives and I'll acquire some pictures using the mask applied before, after and during the paint. The brand new body and paint ought to be here Monday.
Last edited by Eric0424 02-26-2014 at 02:00 PM.
Got the professional-Line Flo-Tek body in Monday not surprisingly, the paint did not arrive here until Thursday. A great news not so good news update though.
The mask fit your body great so far as size goes and also the roof and also the side pieces continued perfectly. However, there's an issue with the Flo-Tek hood. It provides extensive vents, louvers, recesses, a hood scoop and also the front fenders drop underneath the hood in the nose then raise within the hood right over the tires. The hood masks just did not your style will all of the good and the bad molded in to the hood and that i ripped them over a couple of places looking to get them arranged evenly on sides. And So I wound up taking out the hood mask altogether and purchased this same mask (together with mask #8330) to test again, but I will be while using lower side pieces around the hood. I will be able to keep your design flowing in the hood towards the rear using the side sections since they are less complex because the hood sections and that i will be able to avoid a few of the scoops, louvers etc..
I favor to do with the money another paint mask over painting your body using the hood mask unnatural and ripped or missing. It simply will not look right with no design around the hood that resembles the edges and roof.
They are high quality paint masks and build crisp, clean lines of all physiques, however the Flo-Tek hood has an excessive amount of happening with this particular design. I'll buy another Flo-Tek soon and employ another mask onto it. Something similar to 8015, 8355 or 8490.
This 8480 design works ideal for the Connected physiques as well as on the professional-Line Desert Rat using their large and comparatively flat hoods.
Finally got around to painting the Traxxas Ram body in my SC10 4x4. Used ProMask #8330 and Tamiya spray paints. Not my favorite work, however i was not having enough daylight and also got inside a hurry to complete. Still some cleanup and much more decals. When the weather holds out I might obtain the Flo-Tek with #8480 mask set colored.
The ProMask package was excellent, some minor issues on my small part however the masks leave a pleasant clean line when removed. I suggest the ProMask paint masks, simple to remove but sufficiently strong to allow nowhere masking tape release without pull the vinyl mask up.
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Finally got around to painting the Traxxas Ram body in my SC10 4x4. Used ProMask #8330 and Tamiya spray paints. Not my favorite work, however i was not having enough daylight and also got inside a hurry to complete. Still some cleanup and much more decals. When the weather holds out I might obtain the Flo-Tek with #8480 mask set colored.
The ProMask package was excellent, some minor issues on my small part however the masks leave a pleasant clean line when removed. I suggest the ProMask paint masks, simple to remove but sufficiently strong to allow nowhere masking tape release without pull the vinyl mask up.
Was mtss is a obvious covering? I have been searching for just one but have experienced no luck apart from the factory colored ones.
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Was mtss is a obvious covering? I have been searching for just one but have experienced no luck apart from the factory colored ones.
Yes, it had been obvious and pre-trimmed after i got it directly from Traxxas in April 2013. They have been stopped, all of the Traxxas Rams have left and also the Ram part figures correlate to various physiques now. I have had that one for 16 several weeks and merely now got around to painting it. These were getting difficult to find in those days, description of how the appear to become impossible to locate.
The following best factor at this time may be the Pro-Line True Scale Ram, an excellent searching body however i like the Traxxas Ram a bit more.
Last edited by Eric0424 08-06-2014 at 10:08 AM.
Pro-Line Flo-Tek (#3355-00) short course body and ProMask paint mask #8480 ready because of its first coat of Tamiya spray paint. Body will likely split duty between certainly one of my SC10 4x4's and also the SC10 RS.
A hyperlink towards the e-Bay store selling ProMask paint masks. When the paint mask you are thinking about is sold-out, just wait a couple of days and it ought to be in.
ProMask RC Paint Masks on e-Bay.
As pointed out in publish #9, the mask fit your body great so far as size goes and also the roof and also the side pieces continued perfectly. However, the hood masks just did not lay lower right will all of the good and the bad molded in to the hood, I finished up taking out the hood mask in the first set altogether and chose to not even use them this time around.
These first three pictures above (publish #10) from Feb show the very first 8480 mask set. They were removed a few days ago not to mention some adhesive residue remained behind, I simply left the mask on far too lengthy. Once the masks are removed inside a reasonable period of time they release perfectly and then leave simply no residue behind. Thinking about the very fact these were on for six several weeks I acquired off easy with only some minor cleanup with bore solvent. I will be by using this same mask focused on a non-Flo-Tek Pro-Line Raptor (#3344-00) soon because the hood is a lot flatter compared to Flo-Tek body.
The six photos below were taken today immediately after the brand new mask set and tape was applied. It's ready for final inspection then it's first coat/first colour of paint tomorrow. Will update with increased pictures along with a freshly colored body in a couple of days.
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What mask organization that will focus on the professional-line Ford Raptor Short Course physiques, the first is a flotek Raptor another not
The issue using the Flo-Tek physiques is the vents, louvers and center scoop around the hood, so anything with many different style or complicated design is going to be problematical. They are doing possess some sedan masks that may fit over the Flo-Tek hood with no troublel .. Take a look at 9285 The Stinger, 9265 Hotrod Pro, 9215 Awesome Flash and 9275 Sweet Victory, these have somewhat simple designs around the hood and could use the Flo-Tek physiques just a little better. Their 9180 Trident Flames is not around the hood therefore it should work without issues.
You are able to e-mail Pro-Mask through e-Bay and ask for any one of their sedan masks be resized for that bigger short course trucks.
The conventional Raptor includes a much flatter hood, no vents with no scoop and the majority of the ProMasks should use it.
