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Originally Posted by ERASER5
So BR, what does it FEEL like? Is it rubbery? Smooth? Just a hint of rubbery? Is it a 20 footer? 10 footer? The final look/feel is hard to tell in the vids. I can see some good points.
Of course it also occured to me that this could be a quick change color for the get away car, but I may have watched too many movies.  |
So on the 350, its got a texture similar to ABS plastic, that just
slightly textured, yet mostly smooth finish. It doesn't really lay down glassy, unless you use the "glossifier" additive. The final texture will depend a little on what gun you use, and how much flow the nozzle has. The "specific" gun the recommend is actually an economy version of a much more expensive type of machine, and its a pretty good deal. Doing it with the wagner like we did yields good results, BUT its more finnicky about the pot life on the rubber. You really don't want to add extra thinning solution (which they don't usually sell), because of the way the rubber sort of re-tacks the previous layer.
A sheet of it (sprayed, dried, and peeled off), feels like a sheet of latex. If you peel back our spray job, its nearly as thick as a business card in areas.
Even from 5 feet away, it looks like a satin painted or vinyl wrapped car. Only in certain areas can you notice any change in consistency. For example
here is my 66 which is all real paint and satinized clear.
VS
The 350z with a plasti-spray job.
The only real difference (aside from lighting in the pictures), is the amount of light absorbtion. The rubber dip seems to suck up light, making it look very striking. It does crazy stuff with shadows because it doesn't blur and reflect at all, so edges look very "hard". This is cool on a car like the 350, but might make a car like a Porsche have a 2d look. If you look, the satin clear on the truck still has a certain amount of "sheen" to the light. The plastidip treats light more like a TRUE matte finish, like the Hot Rod black or Primer, which has a "tooth" and doesn't reflect light normally.
We are actually re-doing the 350 in summer with something that no-one has done yet with Plasti-Dip. We have found thermo-reactive pigments that still react when mixed with plasti-dip...so we wanna try and make the 350 into a life size color-change hotwheels car.
As for the getaway driver thing; I had that same thought late one night while watching Gumball 3000, when the hot chicks wash the paint off that Lambo. I think its a great idea...I mean, you can get twice the mileage out of your drive-by cars now.
Tcastro- don't worry about coming off like a dick lol, I come off that way all the time, I just don't apologize about it haha. Only reason I kept trying to talk past the rattle cans, was having done that already myself, and found a better way.
The company that makes the stuff is called Performix and can be had in a ton of different types. The special colors and kits for auto use are sold ONLY to Dipyourcar due to a none-compete contract which they won't let me violate. I tried to get Performix to sell it to me, and they refused saying the DYC was the official retailer. You can buy it outside the us through other retailers.
And as I said, Cali guys don't despair - you can mix it yourself for spraying if you need to avoid the CA voc laws.
If you in the Midwest, we'll do full car and custom part dips in pretty much any color, but we need a heads up since we don't run a full time shop.