Freeze's Savage Flux "Frostbyte II" build thread

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by thzero

Just with the liquid mask make sure you put it on thick enough so that it peels off in larger pieces.

Yeah, its big pain if its too thin. Too thick and it takes forever to dry and is a big waste.

That's why I tend to just use my fingers now. I used to use a brush to keep things clean, but too easy to get it thin.

I just pour some on and spread it around well and evenly with my fingers all over the areas I'm looking to mask, if not just most of the body.

It cuts very easily too, so you can use a very light hand to do the cutting. Leads to straighter lines and easier shaping. Tape you really have to cut thru.

One trick I learned was to jusy hold the xacto blade just at the very end of the handle and with just your pointer finger and thumb. You just drag the knife where you want it to cut and let it do the work. Much easier to get consistant flowing lines, rather than holding like the knife like a pencil and trying your damnedest to draw a straight line, cut deep enough to get thru the tape, and not so deep you really score the lexan.

Try it with a pencil on just the desk or paper and you'll see what I mean. Works well w/ flame jobs where you have lots of curves and tight turns.
Old way tends to get lots of straight lines and corners where you stop and start.=> \_/
This way you can make one curve and just guid the blade by twisting it a bit. => U

No pro by any means, but just a few tricks I learned from people way more skilled than me that made life easier. You have a nice write up going freeze, so hope you don't mind I throw in my $.02

Originally Posted by Finnster

It cuts very easily too, so you can use a very light hand to do the cutting. Leads to straighter lines and easier shaping. Tape you really have to cut thru.

One trick I learned was to jusy hold the xacto blade just at the very end of the handle and with just your pointer finger and thumb. You just drag the knife where you want it to cut and let it do the work. Much easier to get consistant flowing lines, rather than holding like the knife like a pencil and trying your damnedest to draw a straight line, cut deep enough to get thru the tape, and not so deep you really score the lexan.

Yeah, I cut a little too hard and deep into the body, i'll have to try that suggestion next time.

[Finnster]

Originally Posted by Freezebyte

Yeah, I cut a little too hard and deep into the body, i'll have to try that suggestion next time.

Don't get me wrong, looks good. Just something you pick up.

One of my first tape jobs I did was on a thin body and I nearly cut thru it. You pretty much have to press hard on tape. The LM is much softer and can get away w/ a light touch.

Update: Body changes


With the project wrapping up at long last, I had to settle on my final ideas one way or another. After some research at the LHS, I determined the amount of work needed to tint the bodies windows isn't worth the further expense and time needed to complete it, so that idea was scrapped. I did decide to go ahead and use as much Shoe Goo as possible to help reinforce the likely weak area's on the body I felt that would be subject to cracking under bashing conditons, due to the wide and long nature of the body orginally designed for a Slash, not a MT. It's hard to see the Goo, so I outline the area's were I put it on the body


I also went ahead and put on packing tape on the sides of the body to help prevent the paint from being rubbed off from the battery trays during crashes and heavy landings. A simple but effective idea I felt.