Plasti Dip?

[Chrischu33]

Hey there, has anyone here tried plasti dip on their models? I want to try plasti-dipping matte black on the bed of the truck of my next build. Simply because I have ran out of Tamiya matte black and i have some plasti dip lying around

 

[Ace-Garageguy]

WAY too thick for a model, period.

One thing it DOES work well for is making larger diameter hoses if you don't have just the right size to be scale-correct.   

[JollySipper]

Bill, do you think there is a way to maybe thin this stuff? It could maybe be brushed on for a bed liner.......?

[Mark]

I wouldn't bother with the stuff unless I had a lot of time to experiment with it.  Bed liner can be simulated with "fabric texture" spray paint, or the Testors vinyl top texture spray.

I wonder if Tex Smith didn't unknowingly invent bed liner...there's a series of articles in Rod & Custom in the late Sixties where he rebuilds an early Fifties Chevy pickup as a street machine/occasional work truck.  On that project, he actually sprayed the inside of the bed with spray-on vinyl roof texture finish, way before I can remember anyone else doing that.  I remember those cheap plastic liners that rubbed the paint off of the inside of the bed, again way before seeing the roll-on or spray-on finishes.

[peteski]

I suspect that the solvent used in PlastiDip will attack or soften bare styrene.