Simulate Suede Tip

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If Krylon has a website, perhaps they have a store location in your area/country.

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http://www.krylon.com/locator/
I tried to find the exact paint in the UK with no luck. Looked on the UK Amazon too.
Went to the Krylon site and there is some info in the above link that might help.
Suggest you look under Fabulous Finishes as a search too. Believe this is a different line of Krylon paints.
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Nice tips everyone!

Thanks for share them.

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Well, I have been looking at the Krylon website and some other places and it seems that this paint is out of production.
Anybody knows something similar from another manufacturer?

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Armor modelers are forever trying to do the same thing, but with a non-slip texture on modern tanks.

One of the best methods for that is to simply stipple a paint brush onto some Gunze Mr. Surfacer. The finer the surfacer number, the finer the texture.

I have been thinking about this lately a I think it would be a great way to add texture to a car seat.

Variables to explore are which Mr. Surfacer number to use (500? 1000? 1500?), bristle size on the brush, and how wet or thinned the surfacer is when you start stippling.

All of that will create either coarser, rougher texture, or finer texture. Use the formula that looks best for the scale you are working in.

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I use micropore for F1 seats...

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Badi wrote:I use micropore for F1 seats...

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Muribadi, the effect on your seats looks great.

Would you be willing to tell us how you apply the tape? Such as:

- How do you attach it to the seat ? Do you use any other adhesive, or just the tape's adhesive?

- How you trim the tape around the seat edges?

- How do you color the tape? Type of paint, brush on or use airbrush, etc?

- Special tips you have learned to improve the process and appearance?

Any info you can share is most appreciated!

Thanks,
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Yes, sure it is a pleasure to share my experiences.

Sometimes you need to cut off the belts when it is molded to the seat, to make the seat as itself smooth. After it, I just use micropore to shape the seat. No magic, use the micropore adhesive itself to adhere the seat.

I cut the micropore with some excess on the borders to garantee you will cover all seat.

The difficult part is to shape the micropore to the seat, you need to mold it as similiar to a carbon decal. So pull and push it to make it comfortable to the seat, try to avoid wrinkles. Then you can fold the excess to back of the piece and cutting the excess too.

You will easily do it with 2 or 3 trials maximum and wont be sad if you miss 2 or 3 pieces of micropore cause a package will produce many and many seats.

For painting what I usually do is: use a flat painting to give some effect or you can use a regular painting, but later on you can use a semi gloss clear coat. Usually I use any automotive painting such as polyester or acrylic or tamiya.

And that is all!

One thing I also do with micropore is the seat belt itself. I cut a piece of micropore. I paint with choosen color and then cut in stripes to use with tamiya photoetched parts (metal). I really enjoy the result.

If you have ant doubt just let me know since my English is not perfect.
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I use airbrush
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Badi wrote:If you have ant doubt just let me know since my English is not perfect.
No worries as your English is quite good.

Thank you very much for the info!

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