painting whitewalls on tires??

[lowriderphil]

So here's the deal. I am not airbrush equipped yet. I have tried the circle template trick with the generic dollar buy spray paint but it never really dries. Is there any rattle can paint that will dry? I used to brush on acrylics but it couldn't get rid of the brush strokes. Any ideas out there?

phil

[HotRodaSaurus]

I usually check the tire for raised mouldings in this area of a tyre, munt it on a mandrel, usually another kit wheel same size that I an pit a toothpick into the centre boss. Then run thinned paint into the 'ring' and rotate it. if the coulour is a ittle watery or opaqe then let it dry and repeat.

Personally I use thinned flat enamel as it tends to yellow slightly as WW tyre do.

A but stuffed if there is no raised lips though, my hand is not that steady these days

Just an idea I have tried and worked.

[Harry P.]

I paint on whitewalls pretty much the same way that hotrodasaurus does. Mount the tire on some sort of mandrel, chuck it into a power drill, turn down the speed so it spins nice and slow, then flow the paint on. I use craft store acrylics (the kind that come in the little 2 ounce squeeze bottles). Since the paint is applied by holding the brush still and applying the tip of the brush to the spinning tire, any brush strokes are concentric circles and aren't noticeable. Acrylic paint will take several coats before you get good coverage... don't try to get total opacity in one coat, it'll never happen...

[lowriderphil]

thanks for the help guys, I discovered it pays to search. A few pages in a found a topic and saw a tip about duplicor sprays and tried it, came out great.

[Smart-Resins]

I use the circle template deal and I usually rubber cement it on and clean up any acces cement. That way the template will not move on me! I then spray the tire either using duplicolor automotive etching primer, then classic white, or using thier white primer, wich ever I have on hand. I get good results that way. Here is a model I did in this fashion. Thanks. Jody

[Ajski]

Here is what I do for whitewalls. You will need a circle template with various sizes on it and a white Sharpie marking pen. Find the size you want and place that circle on the tire and fill in whitewall with the white Sharpie. The Sharpie dries a bit flat similar to whiteout and looks fairly good I thought. No sprays and little mess!

Here they are on a Gremlin:

Ski

[lowriderphil]

Here is what I do for whitewalls. You will need a circle template with various sizes on it and a white Sharpie marking pen. Find the size you want and place that circle on the tire and fill in whitewall with the white Sharpie. The Sharpie dries a bit flat similar to whiteout and looks fairly good I thought. No sprays and little mess!

Here they are on a Gremlin:

Ski

thanks for the tip, that'll work great for all of those revell lowrider tires I have that the decals don't like to stick to

[Smart-Resins]

Here is another tip if you want to take the time!I also use those circle templates for sprying on my white walls as I think I stated above. Anyways, I spread rubber cement around the outside of my tire then "glue" on the circle template. This way I dont accidently move the template and overspray the tire. Also the rubber cement doubles as a masking agent so that the paint does not seap through the seam where the template meats the tire. When the paint is all dry, I will remove the template, then just rub off the rubber cememnt. Here are some more pics. Jody

[Lownslow]

i use this

Edited April 7, 2009 by Lownslow

[lowriderphil]

i use this

I have one laying around, what did you replace the lead with to apply the paint