so happy (painted strips)

[kic]

well i was happy untill my car broke today with how these turned out, quite a good colour match if i do say so,

 

[Final Maxim]

nice finish but they look completely wrong colour?

 

[Marky_]

Aye. Look off, especially on the 2nd and 3rd pic

DIY or a bodyshop do it?

 

[kic]

16v meant to be silver :lolup: nah i first thought they were but close up its near enough exact, the colour of my car changes with the light sometimes see a tint of brown or purple in it depending on the light WEIRD

 

[kic]

DIY so i cant complain plus the cars manky and paints so fresh

 

[DaveW_cup]

looks pretty good mate. can see what others are saying bout colour, but not to shabby for a diy job

 

[Fagan]

looks good against the rest of the car, but when you compare the two parts of the strip against each other in the last pic, they look different.

 

[kic]

could this be down to the laquer??? found it hard trying to keep count of layers on each part so they were the same

 

[Alan]

Top job matey..

 

[jonny mac]

looking good, another thing to remember when painting that sort of plastics you'll never get an exact match of colour in it. it's just the difference between painting metal and plastic. it doesn't shine up the same

what did you use? just 2 coat primer, 2 coat colour then 2 coat clear laquor??

 

[kic]

2 primer about 3 base coats and a tin of lacquer really used alot of lacquer as with about 3 coats it still wasn't as shiney as it could be strongly suggest putting it on really wet but beware of the dreaded runs, little bit of cutting compound then Autoglym super resin and extra gloss protection,

 

[superfig]

Hey, Going to do the same thing with my sides on my MK1 this weekend.
Did you do anything to the plastics before the primer? Wet and dry or anything like that.
Also did you take them off car or just as easy to keep on and tap round?

Cheers