Trying something new

[NathJ]

Not seen it done on the forum yet where someone has colour coded the base plates of the mirror and around the mirror cap.

See alot of people taking the caps off and painting them the same colours as the wheels , diamonds etc and i thought i'd be abit different (hope it looks good)

While i was in work yesterday working on a few random jobs that had been set for the day i noticed one car had colour coded base plates tbh looked rather nice , so i thought what the heck i ll give it a go on my own car

So today got the mirrors off the car ...

Once they where off i stotched them and gave them a light coat of plastic primer before hi-build.

While the mirrors where on bake i thought id sand down the mirror caps and get them looking good .
Sanded them down and put a little bit of stopper in the scratches

I was running low on time so me being me i bodged the mirror caps with abit of aerosol primer.

Everything is sanded down and ready for paint and lacquer tomorrow

Will get finished pictures tomorrow hopefully will look spot on.

 

[chrispy.clio]

what colour are they going?

Should be good tho

 

[Beef-Mc]

It looks well, whoever had my motor before me has done it.

 

[NathJ]

what colour are they going?

Should be good tho

mirrors and caps are going pearl black

 

[iyrix]

interesting to see what it looks like.
hope it works out!

 

[Timmay]

should look good

 

[NathJ]

should look good

Thanks , i hope so , colour coding everything, already paint corrected all the bodywork ,ready to sell it soon

 

[GarethM]

im sure stoddies/benp's old ph1 has fully cc'd mirrors.

will be interesting to see how it turns out

 

[James.f]

Thanks , i hope so , colour coding everything, already paint corrected all the bodywork ,ready to sell it soon

huh? selling, but but what about the conversion you were thinkin of doing?

 

[NathJ]

huh? selling, but but what about the conversion you were thinkin of doing?

Not too sure about it anymore mate, just fancy a change, been thinkin about a civic but im not too sure yet

 

[guysy]

Not too sure what the outcome will look like, I think the plastic looks good around the mirrors.

And a bit of effort to go to if your selling?

 

[NathJ]

Finished them today and i really like them..

 

[nick.]

I did this on my old clio looks ace m8 the part I was most chuffed about colour coding imo, any excuse for pics haha.

*epic fail you have just uploaded your looks ace dude*

 

[NathJ]

looks spot on mate, was really chuffed with mine as soon as i put them on, really dont like that textured grain effect.

 

[JCC]

Only works on black, other colours it just looks cheap IMO.

 

[NathJ]

Only works on black, other colours it just looks cheap IMO.

True , i know what you mean , but the car i had the idea off was a silver merc and that wasn't cheap

 

[p@blo]

This looks really good. Nice work fella.

 

[K1NGY]

Nice, ur so lucky that you can paint anything you like !

 

[Soph]

I'm jealous. Looks really good.

 

[NathJ]

This looks really good. Nice work fella.

cheers mate

Nice, ur so lucky that you can paint anything you like !

Depends on how you think about it mate, its my my job and i can paint whatever i like off my car etc but its having the time to do them, i wanted my side strips doing for months on end but i was just too busy with other peoples work to get anything of my own done. Paying customer always comes first

 

[mickstoke]

i was going to do my mirror bases grey to go with my grilles,scuttle,and rest of the plastics ive painted. nice job

 

[NathJ]

I'm jealous. Looks really good.

thanks