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[Bill from NH]

I like the ghost flames! Nice job Mark.

[Mad Mark]

Havent posted here in a while. I have lots of clear bodies to practice on now and set up a makeshift paint booth in my house. this was my first time trying freak drops Ive heard them called in kustom car circles. didnt come out to bad. will look cooler with some detailed and decals.

[Mad Mark]

[Mad Mark]

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[Bill from NH]

A black-fogged body with a wide white stripe very vintage from the 70s timeframe.  I did a few of those back then. Nice job Mark. 

[Dave Crevie]

Fogging might be old school but it still looks cool. I like to use candy colors for fogging, makes a more gradual change from full color to background color.

[Bill from NH]

Fogging will never be outdated or go out of style. My first airbrushed body was a white Dynamic or Kirby McLaren fogged with black, purple, green, & pink, I probably used Testors TCL pant. That old Binks airbrush still works good, but today it's the backup brush to my backup airbrush.

[Mad Mark]

A black-fogged body with a wide white stripe very vintage from the 70s timeframe.  I did a few of those back then. Nice job Mark. 

Thanks! Was hoping more for around 1966 but close enough I guess haha.

[Dave Crevie]

I did some fogged bodies during my first go-round with slot racing. Both clear and styrene models. That would have been spring 1966 and earlier. In this picture of my '68 Roadrunner you can just see the fade on the side from white to blue. Same process as fogging. On the red stripe you can just make out another custom paint effect, spider webbing. To do this you used lacquer paint straight from the can, not reduced. Shot through a good paint gun under higher pressure, the paint would come out in strings, and land on the surface in a random pattern, imitating spider webs. You had to lock in all these effects with several coats of clear, something you don't have to do on a clear slot car body. The base color, shot after everything else is done, achieves that purpose.

 

 

 

Some examples of fogging, using the panel style most common in the '60s and '70s, and still popular  today;

 

 

 

 

The spider web effect looks like this;