Best Tide Orange?

[towman1271]

  Although most of my builds are in the Truck side of the forum, i am a race fan.  I am planning on doing my old favorite DW's Daytona winning Tide ride.. Looking for suggestions on what color would best be used on it.. Mainly in spray can form. Thanks 

[bbowser]

I used a fluorescent orange on mine many years ago.  It was flat so it needs a gloss coat of some kind before adding decals.

 

[Psychographic]

The tide car was done in florescent from what I understand. The problem is florescent dye is not lightfast. So if you do this, keep the model out of direct light to keep it from fading.

[towman1271]

1 hour ago, bbowser said:

I used a fluorescent orange on mine many years ago.  It was flat so it needs a gloss coat of some kind before adding decals.

 

thanks for responding..your  build looks great

[towman1271]

45 minutes ago, Psychographic said:

The tide car was done in florescent from what I understand. The problem is florescent dye is not lightfast. So if you do this, keep the model out of direct light to keep it from fading.

thanks for that bit of info

[IJ001]

I used Tamiya's 'Orange' straight from the rattle-can on Ricky's 2002 Taurus that I finished last year.

 

Ian.

[towman1271]

2 hours ago, IJ001 said:

I used Tamiya's 'Orange' straight from the rattle-can on Ricky's 2002 Taurus that I finished last year.

 

Ian.

Thats a great looking build Ian, and thank you for the suggestion!

[OldTrucker]

I just used Testors competition orange over white primer when I did mine years back.

[935k3]

Tamiya has a new TS color,  TS-96 fluorescent orange that should do the trick

[dragcarz]

Testers Floresent red over the white base coat. DuPont automotive Cleat coat.

[kitbash1]

Back when I was a printer, we printed the Tide boxes. To make the Florescent Orange on the box pop more, we printed it over Florescent Yellow. So if you spray yellow over white primer then the orange, you should get the same rich Tide Orange colour after you clear coat .

[towman1271]

Thanks to everyone for the ideas!

[towman1271]

1 hour ago, dragcarz said:

Testers Floresent red over the white base coat. DuPont automotive Cleat coat.

Thank you, great looking build

[dragcarz]

Thanks, older build from 1993, rear spoiler popped off, have to glue it back on.

[Jay]

I used Tamiya neon orange(PS-24) on my current Tide project... it's for lexan, but works great with two part clear cover it.

 

[MarkJ]

On ‎5‎/‎20‎/‎2018 at 6:43 PM, dragcarz said:

Testers Floresent red over the white base coat. DuPont automotive Cleat coat.

That's an awesome looking fade job you did with the paint, Roger.