Warped body repair - Painted!

[Mixalz]

So not really a question as I cant be bothered waiting for a response lol. I painted my Tamiya Nissan Z Tune and polished it too. Only now have I realised that the body was actually significantly warped. Sooo I'm going to experiment and try bending the body back using a heat gun. Hopefully it wont crack the paint and hopefully it wont leave finger prints. Ill report back with results and photos soon!

[Mixalz]

Bah I'm an idiot. As I was taking photos I noticed it was actually the whole body was twisted. BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH

 

Gonna have to use water method. Hopefully it still wont crack paint.

[Snake45]

Sometimes--SOMETIMES--when you install the interior and/or chassis into a warped body, it straightens it out. You can't count on this, but you might get lucky. It's worth testing for before taking more drastic action.

[Mixalz]

I only discovered the warp after fitting it to the chasis

Just tried the water method. WAS having good results. When I tired to use a touch more heat. Resulted in a fingerprint. Sigh. Pretty sure it went through the clear so I'll have to repaint. Devastated

Edited June 21, 2017 by Mixalz

[Mixalz]

Well lessons learnt.

1. Always check bodies for warp before painting.

2. This site has a language filter lol

 

[Snake45]

I only discovered the warp after fitting it to the chasis

Just tried the water method. WAS having good results. When I tired to use a touch more heat. Resulted in a fingerprint. Sigh. Pretty sure it went through the clear so I'll have to repaint. Devastated

Might be possible to just re-clear over the fingerprint and spot-polish that out. I'd try it before stripping, anyway.

[Mixalz]

Might be possible to just re-clear over the fingerprint and spot-polish that out. I'd try it before stripping, anyway.

Going to try this tomorrow. I don't have too much hope though. It looks like the print went through. Should have taken more time at a lower heat.