hubcaps

[Plymouthy Adams]

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[RobertKB]

Those look really good, Tim!

[Norm's Coupe]

Looks pretty good Tim. I welded these together and painted them. They are yard art now standing tall in the wife's flower garden. Have another pair welded waiting for paint with a different design.

[Mr. Belvedere]

Tim, did you use the red and blue engine spray paint here too or a fine brush? It must have been one heck of a masking job you did if you sprayed it. I've been putting doing this off on my 54 because I am not sure I can make it come out good enough for my perfectionist nature to be satisfied. Your work here is inspiring! Thanks for sharing it.

[Norm's Coupe]

You could also use the small bottles of Testors Model paint, will just take a little longer to dry. Don't be afraid to paint the hubcaps. They are stainless. If you make a mistake, you can easily remove the paint without harming the hubcap, then do it over.

[Norm's Coupe]

Tim, have you ever tried the paint pens? After spraying the hubcaps I pictured, I painted the eyes and mouth with a thick point paint pen. When I first applied the paint for the eyes and mouth it was sort of like brush marks. However, as the paint dried it smoothed out. For thin or real small parts you can use the thin tip paint pens. The paint pens dry pretty fast too, but not as fast as regular automotive spay paint.

No matter what kind of paint you use though, Mr. Belvedere shouldn't be afraid to try it. The nice thing about painting stainless is, it's easy to get off if you mess it up, or don't do it like you wanted. Then you can just do it over.

[Norm's Coupe]

After posting that last message about the paint pens. Have you or anyone else tried using paint pens to paint pin stripes on a car? It just hit me, you should be able to do a nice pin stripe job on a car with the pens. Think I'll give that a try the next warm day we get. If it doesn't look good, it'll come off with some gas or other cleaner if I do it fast enough.

[splat1955]

I've used the Testors paint in both the small bottles and spray cans on many hubcaps, interior pieces....just about anything...many times. Hub caps with lettering or a design that have raised edges are really very simple. One trick I learned back in the '70's for painting small pieces or just about anything..is to put a thin coat of vaseline on any of the area that you don't want to paint. Then spray and/or brush the area to be painted. After the paint is dry....wipe the vaseline away. I still use this method and it's worked well for me.