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Old 2008.07.25, 05:27 PM   #1
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Crystal clear? Window tint? Post your tips!

Hi. I was wondering if anybody knows how to fade out the color of plastic cristals. For example:
- take an original windshield of an ASC, which is originally brown, and convert it to clear.
- or take the tail lights of a NSX ASC, which is originally red and orange, and convert it to "crystal clear".
- or take a painted clear part and and make it clear again.
I guess you all understood what i want to do.

Also, any tips to window tinting? Or simulating lexan windows?
Any window trick is accepted!

Come on modellers, i´m sure someone tried any of these.
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Old 2008.07.25, 05:47 PM   #2
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The only way you will get a clear asc with clear windows would be to use an iwaver body.Neomax did one not so long ago,i'm sure it's in the iwaver section.
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Old 2008.07.25, 05:48 PM   #3
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You can use the flimsy plastic packaging that comes with some things. (ie. the older autoscale boxes)
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Old 2008.07.25, 06:08 PM   #4
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Faze, i guess you refer to lexan windows. Plastic bags would be good, or maybe the clear plastic from the Kyosho parts boxes.

Kryten, i was looking for a way to clear the windows or tail-lights plastic. Not a clear body (which also would be cool).
When i was "glue-ing" the tail-light of the NSX, the glue i used started to blur and mix the orange and red colors. Maybe somebody knows how to unpaint this tail-light plastics in a proper, more controlled way.

Actually i seen NEOMAX work, cool. May that process work for clearing the windows? I guess it wouldn´t work for many tail-lights, as many of them have "many nooks and crannys".

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Old 2008.07.25, 06:44 PM   #5
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As for tinting a window, there used to be this stuff called Insta-Tint. I forgot who made it, I'm thinking Parma or some model company like that. It was a big sheet, close to 8x11 I think. It was transparent black, and had a sticky backing. All you had to do was cut to fit, peel and stick. Stuff is practically impossible to find these days, but if you can find it, works' great!
As for the AutoScale stock windows, I don't think there is any method for removing the tint. Once it's been smoked, it stays that way. Could also be molded in a smoked plastic form and thus IMPOSSIBLE to make clear again. I have seen some clear parts for some clear AutoScales, but not for all.
I also think some prototypes might have been clear, not sure on that.
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Old 2008.07.25, 08:04 PM   #6
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ASC window glass is molded in that brownish color. You could melt a piece down, destroy it, whatever, it'll be brown. Same goes for colored taillight pieces. Your NSX taillights should've been molded in orange plastic. If you dump the piece in thinner, the red will come out and the plastic's orange color will remain.

So there's not really an off-the-shelf solution that I know of if you want clear windows/lights. You really have to just sit down and start cutting clear plastic to fit where you want it.
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The only tint I have messed with is automotive tint scraps that I have used for 1/10 lexan bodies. Try to find the lightest stuff you can, even at that scale a medium tint would look completely black. I even tried it on 1/25-24 models with clear windows. It would work as long as you can get it stuck down good, even the smallest speck of dust would look like a mess.

As far as Kyosho Mini Z bodies. About the only thing that can be done if you want clear windows is to find someone that can copy and remold them in clear plastic.

There has been a few members that messed with that stuff for making tires and such parts.
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