the great painting has begun/ the painting process.

So I mentioned a wile back about the great painting of 2014. What that means Is that most of my rides, will be painted, instead of pipe cleaners. Wile pipe cleaners will still play a part, the over all look will be improved. I have already painted the red paratrooper, the rok n rol, the sidewinder, 2 new Ferris wheels, the rock o plane, the swinger, and the all new loop o plane!!! Now I am going to show you the painting process. This is the many steps it takes to paint a ride.  The step will be under each picture.

First the ride, in this case the side winder, is stripped down to bare knex. some peices that will be painted other colors will be removed and set aside. In this case the cars and a few others.

Then the ride is taken to the painting area, and set into different spaces for different parts.

                        Then the ride gets painted with spray paint. This one is blue.

Once the ride is painted, 2 or 3 coats later, it is brought back up to be put back together. some small parts will be put in the freezer to reduce the stickiness of the paint.

The ride is now put back together.

 Then pipe cleaners are added where needed for racking.

Now paint markers put delicate lines on certain parts. This only applies to rides with small designs.

The designs on the cars are done. (the teal at the end of the white parts)

 Now the ride is finished being painted.

         Now, decoration pipe cleaners are put in place. These represent the lights.

                                       The ride is finished mostly. extra parts were added after these pictures were taken, like lights and such.

The last step is rack the ride.

Now I have some new stuff to show so expect some pictures soon. One of them is I completely rebuilt my rock o plane wheel to look more accurate and have more racking capability's. stay tuned.