The bent hanger should fit snugly enough inside the body to hold it securely without bowing the body sides outward. This makes it easy to hold the body for painting while keeping paint off your hands. It also lets you hang the body from overhead to dry or stand it in a secure location by wedging the other end of the hanger securely into any opportune place. Wash the body thoroughly with warm, soapy water. Rinse completely and allow to dry on the hanger. The body is now ready to paint.
Mask the chassis as shown at left below.
Prime the body and the front and rear portions of the chassis with one or two coats of flat white primer and allow to dry thoroughly. Wet-sand the primer with 600 grit sandpaper. Be sure not to sand through the primer. If you do, touch up the area with more white primer and sand it again. Spray the orange onto the body and the front and rear portions of the chassis in several light coats with airbrush or spray can. Make sure you cover all the edges and recessed areas When the final coat has dried completely wet-sand any orange peel or dust specks with 600-grit sandpaper. Make sure the orange color is uniform and covers the white primer completely. Touch up as necessary.
When the orange is completely dry give the body and the painted parts of the chassis a couple coats of Testor Glosscote. The Glosscote dries very rapidly so you can apply coats of it about a half-hour apart. At this point you can remove the masking tape from the chassis and reassemble it. It should come out looking like the right-hand photo above. When reinstalling the motor the white lead wire goes on the right side and the black one on the left.
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