sith camaro
Active Hunter
My fingers! Don't be afraid to get dirty! 
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Soju
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sith_camaro wrote:
My fingers! Don't be afraid to get dirty!
You used your fingers to buff?
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Star Wars Chick
Sr Hunter
LOL Mgr! I used a dust rag to apply it to my gauntlets and jet pack just so I wouldn't get my hands as dirty but the first time I used it on my R2 Dome I used my fingers. I actually had no problem clear coating my jet pack. I used the silver and the black on the jet pack and none of it beaded up and you guys saw how dirty that thing looked. I didn't want to have that stuff rubbing off on the rest of my costume.
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Soju
Guest
Man, that was great.
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Soju
Guest
What the heck? I've put it on my knee armor, and it's not as shiney, but it's even. Then, I put it on my thigh armor and it's nice and shiney, but looks really messy and uneven. What the heck is going on?!?!?!
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sith camaro
Active Hunter
Are they both made from the same material? RNB isn't all that shiny on sintra, but it works REAL well with resin/fiberglass.
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Soju
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I tried several methods. First, I tried it over the chrome paint, but it came out looking awful. So, I tried it on just sintra ... better, but not great. So, I tried it on my knee armor, which just had primer, and bingo. Success. It wasn't as shiney as I had seen in the photos here, but it looked pretty good ... nice and even anyway. So, I began sanding the rest of my armor back down to the primer. I started Rub N' Buffing the thigh armor, and again, it came out uneven, but much more shiney than my knees (even with the uneven look, my wife says it looks better than the knees). I didn't do anything differently than with my knee armor. The only explaination I can think of is that the thigh armor is so much larger, it's more difficult to get even coverage. I'm using my finger to apply it. Usually it dries so fast, I end up buffing with my finger as well. I have buffed with both my palm and a soft rag, but it doesn't seem to make a difference either way. So, I really just can't figure it out. I spread the R&B as thin as possible before buffing, but I seem to be using more than what most people said they used. I can definitely see myself using more than one tube, if not two. So, what technique did you all use? Did you put a big blob of the stuff on and do the entire piece at once, or did you do it in sections - applying only a little at a time? Please help me! I have a rubbing and buffing disability!
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sith camaro
Active Hunter
Apply it in sections. Don't rush and try to do the whole thing at once.
If you try putting RNB over a surface that has been spray painted with a chroms paint, it will look bad. Almost like it's eating through the paint! If you were to put some brush n leaf on first and then RNB, you'd have no problems.
If you try putting RNB over a surface that has been spray painted with a chroms paint, it will look bad. Almost like it's eating through the paint! If you were to put some brush n leaf on first and then RNB, you'd have no problems.
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mgr
Active Hunter
Come to think of it, I had the same problem w/ my larger pieces, Like Sith said, try doing it in small areas instead of banging out the whole thing at one time.
BTW,
Thanks for the brush and leaf suggestion sithcamero. Do you prime or chrome paint before you use that stuff or just put it right over the sintra?
BTW,
Thanks for the brush and leaf suggestion sithcamero. Do you prime or chrome paint before you use that stuff or just put it right over the sintra?
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sith camaro
Active Hunter
Nope, just put it right on.
One thing to remember about brush n leaf, You can put RNB OVER it, but you can't put it over RNB. It'll start eating into the wax of the RNB.
One thing to remember about brush n leaf, You can put RNB OVER it, but you can't put it over RNB. It'll start eating into the wax of the RNB.
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