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Old 01-16-2010, 02:00 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Duplicolor Metalcast paint available pretty much everywhere. You wanna get your parts all nice and clean of course and the shinier the parts to start with the better they turn out. The red turns out like a candy apple. The big secret to the whole process is to bake your parts in the oven at 250 degrees for half an hour. When you first spray the stuff you get a lot of orange peel and it looks pretty dull and crappy. Throw them in the oven and it spreads into a perfect candy apple surface. You get a nice aroma in the house when you do it so make sure the wife isn't around (if you happen to have one

http://www.duplicolor.com/projects/howto_metalcast.html
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