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Designing and Decorating an RC Car
Whether you have a couple of kids who are interested in both cars and art or you just are a hobbyist yourself, remote-controlled cars make for perfect starter pieces for automotive design and decoration. As a car enthusiast, once you can master painting and retrofitting a scale model RC vehicle, you’ll be much better able to picture such changes on a larger scale, and transfer them over to a life-sized car. Even if you have no intention of copying your RC car design work on an actual road vehicle, you can still have a good time working with the collector’s item, customizing it until it’s exactly as you need it to be.
Remote control cars are often equipped with some delicate pieces of technology, so the first rule of them is to make sure you know what you’re working with before proceeding. After all, you don’t want to put wet paint on a live battery or a loose wire, which can be both dangerous to you and detrimental to the effective functionality of the RC car. You can either investigate with your own eyes, or utilize various diagrams of the miniature to determine if there are any regions you need to avoid painting or altering in any way.
When you finally get around to designing and decorating the automotive miniature, keep a few things in mind. First off, avoid anything heavy. Heavy paint that clumps is no good on a small vehicle that’s supposed to be aerodynamic and sleek, so stick to paint types that are thin and dry quickly. If you plan on attaching a miniature rear spoiler or something of the sort, use glue or another adhesive that is also quick to dry and which is quite a bit stronger than the typical elementary school-use kind of glue. If you intend to actually race the vehicle using the controller, you don’t want the add-on pieces breaking off, or in some way obstructing the performance of your RC car.
Once you’ve finished your design and applied it to the car, take note of what worked and what didn’t. Perhaps you used a brush that was too large to be convenient when attempting to fill in small corners, or maybe the stripes you put on now seem to clash with the overall look of the vehicle. Either way, you’ll be better prepared for next time, whether next time is on another paintable RC car or on an actual-size version of the miniature you just designed and painted.