Dans KL SE project
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lol i wish i could afford for a paint job like that. I do quite like that rover orange mind you. the blue is lush as well. sooo many to choose from isnt there. I would love a met paint
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Ok, I decided to make a start on one of the wheels today and thought i would keep you all posted. the rim and dish still need another good sand down but i have sprayed the faces up. Here is some before, during and after pics. hope you like :mrgreen:
when i picked them up they looked like this
defo Rays alloys ;)
shocking dish
Sanded and masked
Primered up
:twisted:
pre lacquer
Post lacquer with mazdaspeed in red (i fucked it up a bit but hey hoo)
as you can see the dish need to be sanded down alot more and polished up but they will be on before the show next weekend weather thats done or not lol.
Let me know your thoughts
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also thinking i may spray the rays centre caps up gloss to match the wheels but thats a 5 min job. dont know if the "chrome" plastic goes with the gloss black alloys
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Oh man, great job on the wheels! If you're gonne change the colour of the car, I'd be very tempted to go for that blue posted above and paint the MS logo on the wheel blue too if I were you!
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I was temped to do it in met blue but the red just stood out a bit more on the shelf lol. Thanks, I aint no sprayer by any means but my god its fun when it goes right :twisted:
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oh I almost forgot, i picked up this little beayt for a fiver at my local scrappy. might be too big to go on. what do you think? I think its a 5" slash cut powerflow backbox ;) could do with a good scrub up
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2 down, 2 to go. getting a bit high now so i think i will leave the other 2 for tomorrow pmsl. some serious fumes on that lacquer!
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nice. liking the colour scheme.
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thanks bud, i just checked out your log, didnt realise someone else had done black and red already lol. yours is coming along nicely :)
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Into them mate, goona rock :D
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I hope so mate, they are taking me long enough to paint up :lol: will try to finish the other 2 up tonight and the re lacquer them all again. I have put 3 coats on so far but think i will put another one or two coats on. will try and get that exhaust on this week too ;)
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Coming along nicely sir,
Black and red does work well for a car.
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it was either red or yellow, i was torn between the two but decided on red. I think yellow might have been a bit too brash with the black on a white car. i may spray the dish up as i dont know if i can be bothered to keep sanding and sanding and sanding…..... i was thinking of some chrome spray but it will turn out silver so maybe a metalic colour of some sort would look good. any suggestions? or just several coats of chrome spray lol
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I love those rims!!! Red looks GoooooooooooooD! i think the dish in chrome will look 8)
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chrome spray usually looks wank. I think those deserve to be polished! And don't lacquer the polished lips, it just chips and looks sht after about 5 miles.
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Defo on the pro polishing, itll be worth it in the end :D
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ok ok lol, any reccommendations on a good chrome polish that wont cost me the earth. I took a bit more time on the next too wheels and sanded the dish right down (going to try some brasso for a min to take a pic). I used to have some metal polish in a squeezy tube that i used to polish up old stainless backboxes before selling and it was bloody brill but i cant remember what it was called
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Probably Autosol ? used it to polish my header tank.
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that would be the stuff!! bloody brilliant thanks, will pick some up tomorrow :)
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sorry for the delay in replying, was finishing off lacquering the last two wheels ;)
