Airbrushing Helmets?

[tomass]

Would using automotive paint wear or corode the plast on a DJ lid if i were to get someone to paint a fully phat image on it. My design and tech teacher said it would but i want to get some feed back to wether its true or not.

[roxy12]

yeah most automotive paint does, the same as the adhesive on most stickers to.
Im not sure of what pint you can use but i know you cant use automotive, il aks my b/f and get back to you on the paint. I do beleive however it has an r4 combo.

[captainmorgan]

If you are going to get your helmet airbrushed, use Createx Auto Air paint. It's waterbased and designed for that type of use.

[tomass]

cheers thats what i needed to know

[wombat]

Im not sure of what pint you can use but i know you cant use automotive
You sure about that?

I know I asked this question before, and the answers I got revolved around the fact that you could use whatever paint you want, as the paint never actually comes into contact with the helmet's shell.

The important thing is your primer (which will go straight onto the prepped shell). You need a primer that firstly will not harm the helmet, and that will secondly be compatible with whatever sort of paint you use for your topcoats.

I don't know exactly what is available though so I can't help you there, although I *thought* that the pro's like Troy Lee and Dylan Dean used automotive paints from PPG and the like, so there must be a primer that suits. Try searching this forum too, I'm sure Jeremiah replied to a similar thread that I posted a couple of years ago.

[bb7 rider]

100 % urethane based 2 pack, seems to look ok hey?