Hey mervin. Question. As I understand wood stain goes inside the wood to color it and leaves the grain. How does wood stain works on plastic. Do the pigment stay on top and work fine?
The coloration for the Peko body is Minwax tint base and stain: white water based tint base over the orange print, followed mostly by a blonde toned oil based wood finish stain and a darker stain to mimic shadow. There are probably three coats of sprayed semi gloss polycrylic on the body not including a horizontal brush coat. I applied the tint in a light coverage to allow the orange print to show through and after the first blonde stain I tried adding adding and blending horizontal pencil lines: yellow, browns, red and black. I had to rub out some of the black with art gum and there was a couple bouts of sanding with some bubbling and running too. As an art school dropout my take is to capitalize on the imperfections and since a Peko is plastic I had to put a lot of them there myself.
Is that what you wanted gdeal?
You know you don't have to thread the delrin right? You can just drill a hole so the vented screw screws in. I started small and worked my way up and kept checking with the vented screw until it snuggly screwed into the delrin. I made mine tight enough that it doesn't thread in by hand. I need a screwdriver to drive it in. Works perfect. On my second Peko I wasn't so quick to put it together, so I did tap that 2nd mods delrin. But it's definitely not needed. The brass nut that goes onto the vented screw works just fine for atty adjustment!!
Good idea, think about it, the Peko shell itself doesn't get all that hot... so I would think plastidip would be fine! And probably look much better than that thick uneven bedliner. Think about some plastidip Rick! If you haven't already sprayed your mod with bedliner...
