Question on candying tail lights
Jan 15, 2005 | 02:04 AM
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From: Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de la Porciúncula
Originally Posted by WvGearhead
Chingon, one more thing, How well does the lights show up through the paint? Is it as bad as the ol tail light covers. Just wondering if it will be another reason to get pulled over with all the barney fifes round here.
Jan 15, 2005 | 02:05 AM
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From: Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de la Porciúncula
Originally Posted by SmokinRice
I had a friend at a shop here do mine. HOK Burgandy, then Clear. They started as Smoked Euro's.
I think I'll try that on one of my extra sets.
Jan 15, 2005 | 02:12 AM
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From: Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de la Porciúncula
Originally Posted by JSmith
Do you happen to have a part number or paint number for the Testors red that you used? Also, how bad did that 220 grit rip through that plastic on the lens?
The 220 grit scratched em up pretty bad, I was like oops
I had to use finer grit paper to smooth em out, but they came out just fine.
Jan 15, 2005 | 01:57 PM
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From: Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de la Porciúncula
Originally Posted by desTRUCKtive
The HOK burgandy, does that also come in the Testers brand?
HOK is a custom paint isn't it?
Jan 15, 2005 | 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Chingon
I'm not sure, but I don't think House of Kolor comes in a Testor's can
HOK is a custom paint isn't it?
HOK is a custom paint isn't it?
But I was also wondering since it is a candy, when applying it to the regular lights if it would come out to dark. I think that rice went good becuase he said he had clear lights on there. What do you guys think. I still want to try that burgandy.
Jan 15, 2005 | 11:54 PM
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I used 220 grit on the markings on mine to remove them, then smoothed everything out with 400 and then 600 wet.
I used testors paint and dupont clear coat from a spray gun.
I got some candy red mixed up at a paint store that is going to be MUCH darker and i'm going to spray that on another set i have soon.
I used testors paint and dupont clear coat from a spray gun.
I got some candy red mixed up at a paint store that is going to be MUCH darker and i'm going to spray that on another set i have soon.
Jan 16, 2005 | 02:56 AM
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From: Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de la Porciúncula
Originally Posted by dragonman0325
So basically you just mask off the white light and spray the candy over the entire light, then clear? I'lll give it a shot at work with the PPG tints and see if I can come up with something kewl.
Also, I've seen some trucks where they took a cleared out tail light and masked off some flames so the tails were all red except where they had masked off so they had "cleared flames" if you will
I was thinking of doing the same but instead designing a cool logo or something and masking that off.