Bob Cotsford Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 A word of caution: As I only needed to paint the cowl, spats and u/c for the Jabberwock I thought I'd just use aerosols rather than setting up the compressor and spraygun. RC Colours paints are supposed to be a match to Profilm/Oracover so I used it once before when rebuilding the front of my H9 Texan and I'd describe the colour match as 'near enough' - certainly not as good a match as Solarfilm and Solarlac. It has proved fuel proof for the 5% stuff I use. With the Jabberwock being a black and white scheme I thought I couldn't go far wrong. I ordered 1 can each of black, white and hi-gloss clear which duly arrived from SMC and I set to. Note the cans are only 150ml so don't plan on covering large areas with it! First task was to use a plastic primer on the f/g cowl and spats, and non-ferrous primer on the alloy u/c, all flatted down with wet'n'dry. The black and white colour coats went on fine, even with less than ideal temperatures it flowed and gave a good finish with no bleed under the masking though I did have to swap the spray head on the black can as it seemed prone to blocking. Next I started to clear coat it, and the first mist coat went on ok, followed by a second coat which left some light spatter on the spats. A third flow coat then went totally tits up on the cowl - maybe I hadn't shaken the can long enough or something but it started to spatter - really badly! It looked like a Permagrit board, and the can ran out very quickly so I couldn't get it to flow at all. The colours seemed to go a LOT further and flow much better. Once it had dried I cut it back and managed to preserve the underlying colour. Luckily I had some Flair clear gloss left over from a previous model and that covered ok leaving a nice gloss finish. Looking at the white on the spats clearcoating with RC Colours wasn't such a good idea, it's far from clear with a distinct yellow tinge and quite a rough surface. Once again a coat of Flair clear has improved the finish but I'm stuck with the yellow tinge. Has anyone else tried these paints? If so, how did you find them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graeme jones Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Bob - I've only used the silver. Good finish but not even fuel resistant. Started to peel after a few flights and had to be stripped off. Used Flair Spectrum instead, which didn't give such a good finish but is fuel proof. Graeme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Cotsford Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 The Pacific(?) Blue on my Texan/SNJ has been on the cowl for a couple of years with no problems. I guess these RC Colours paints are pretty inconsistent. I hope the white turns out fuel proof as I didn't clearcoat the u/c after seeing what it did to the spats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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