Painting (eye) glass frames. Advice?

[L14MNP]

lol. Bear with me...

I am short sighted and occasionaly wear glasses for driving. This is my first and only pair which I've had a couple of years.

I've never been a fan of the high shine finish but they were the best I could find at the time blah blah.So I'm wanting to respray (lol) them in a matt black of some description, maybe even that slightly rubberised interior finish a lot of new cars have. lol

Lenses out and arms off and I want to 'colour code' the logo so there's no masking to be done. :thumb:lol
Stripped:
http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac157/itsallac0nspiracy/Random/41778e2d.jpg?t=1262610128

What should I use to key the plastic surface, 1200, 1500?

Also I will probably end up doing them in plastic primer and Hammerite BBQ matt black spray. used it before (albeit on car parts) and it seems durable and offers a good finish. Or maybe straight Plasticote stuff if they do matt.

If it doesn't work out I'll get new jam jars, but it's gotta be worth a go.

If there's a better matt paint to use then I'm all ears, also what's the deal on matt lacquer? As the finish needs to be fairly durable obviously

There's been some ghey projects on here in the past but I think I win. :wtf::)

Cheers - and laugh away. lol

[Connor]

lol pimp my frames lol

[L14MNP]

lol. I was expecting a resto job. Luckily there's no rust on the screw threads.

Choices. lol http://www.plasti-kote.co.uk/Search/scode---5507/Go_suface---GO

Velvet, stone etc :gay

Flat black it shall be me thinks.

[Stuart]

Ohh actually I'll keep an eye (eye eye) on this thread.... I want some new glasses and cant find any in the style and colours I like.

I'd imagine a rub down with 1200 would suffice, make sure they arent painted already. Might be wise to go for something like acrylic primer from a model shop, paint and then some sort of acyrlic matt laquer. Atleast it wont react with the plastic.

[L14MNP]

Ah. Good shout on the model primer Stu. :)

They are already painted, you can see that the hinges are transparent. Surely it shouldn't matter if I'm keying the surface?

I'll have to look into this matt lacquer business. I don't know if I can stomach standing in line with the nerds whilst they chat about tyre compounds and chassis settings though. lol

[Stuart]

Ah. Good shout on the model primer Stu. :)

They are already painted, you can see that the hinges are transparent. Surely it shouldn't matter if I'm keying the surface?

I'll have to look into this matt lacquer business. I don't know if I can stomach standing in line with the nerds whilst they chat about tyre compounds and chassis settings though. lol

buy online then fanny :p


you might get a paint reaction if they used some fancy paint etc (hence the acrylic suggestion as that seems fairly reaction proof)

[L14MNP]

I get ya.

I will go in before closing time. Could get my Kyosho Spider pull start fixed at the same time. lol

[hybridturbo]

:cool:

[dannyb]

I now want to paint my girlfriends glasses in flip paint.

[L14MNP]

Make sure you mask her face off first mate.

[Jon_nova1]

won't you be gutted when you get a nose the same colour as your glasses? lol

[Mike]

Ive seen a whole load of random things get painted in my time.....but this takes the Crown.

Ill get my coat.....

[novacabrio]

would just rubbing them with wire wool or similar not take the shine off and do what you want?

[Richie_B]

Make sure you mask her face off first mate.

lol



BUMP. Update? :chin

[L14MNP]

Cabrio, not really. I probably would have settled for that but I want shot of the logo too.

Erm update.
Materials:
http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac157/itsallac0nspiracy/Random/8a4437ea.jpg?t=1262688503
I took the shine off with a red scotch pad. I never had any wet and dry above 320 and forgot to get it when out lol.
Arms scotched, frame untouched
http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac157/itsallac0nspiracy/Random/2657fc75.jpg?t=1262688599
Lost one screw for the arms also. :roll:lol

They're drying in the garage atm, second primer coat.

As requested Richie. lol

[LEWI007]

lol

Good scotch down, or rub with 1000 or more

few coats of plastic primer, i would give like 3 or more just to make sure, cos if yougo through the hassle of painting them and it ends up flexing and cracking the paint, its better to be safe than sorry.

Then id just put loads of matte paint on and not lacquer it, if it ends up coming off then try and get some of that matte lacquer.

Liam your crazy lol

[L14MNP]

lol. That is matt lacquer mate. Gonna see how it looks with the top coat on as you say before I clear coat it.

You caught that dinosaur in your kitchen yet?

[LEWI007]

lol, caught it this morning man, check out that thread, i took a pic of i, think its a rat :(

Get another pic of your specs with the paint on aswell ;)

[brake-dust]

Lost one screw for the arms also. :roll:lol

use selotape, combined with the matt black, Rat look spec's FTW lol

[Richie_B]

Nice update. You didn;t take a pic of the primered arms :(

[novacabrio]

Mods can you move this to projects lmao

[L14MNP]

No need lol. It's done.

The paint booth. Ideal TBH. Cut the bottom out of a beyond gay box and then access both sides using the lid as the 'back. :/
http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac157/itsallac0nspiracy/Random/c1816ef3.jpg?t=1262732110
Finished. No lacquer. I'll do them again once I can be arsed. One of the primer coats didn't set well lol. They're still fine though.
http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac157/itsallac0nspiracy/Random/dc03fd9d.jpg?t=1262732181

[Richie_B]

Paint booth lollol

Your desk looks well worn around the mouse... Respray? :chin

[LEWI007]

On you Booth, is that a CD on the top so you can spin them around when your painting them ? lol lol

They look as if theyve came out well.

[L14MNP]

No CD mate. Probs the whack-ass pattern on the box lol.