here it is, my painting finally finished...took a few hours to tape off every individual diamond that didn't go all the way through, but you gota do it right or it will look like shit...its really dirty too, theres that giant bug splat on the front above the fog light, i def need to wash it thats bird crap on the hood not a ding, probably should of cleaned it before the pics The blue in the engine compartment looks alot lighter, but its not...everything is all the same shade blue, hope ya'll like it
looks like a clean job, but its not something i would do :roll: maybe you should try painitng your foglights blue too the ring
good job painting.. It looks pretty sweet to me. you should of went with a black out approach itd look mean if your blacked it out. But i like that your car is diff I have not seen anyone else do this yet. SO A++ FOR ORGIONALITY.
thanks guys,thats my exact reason for doing it like that,everyone w/black wants to black out,so I went with blue...need to do my calipers next
looks really good man. i mean wen i saw the first picture i thought it was aluminum and not painted. i was gana say where u get the blue alluminum grilles. good work bro, and your right the taping off where the diamonds dont go all the way through made it look really good
Eh, not my cup'o'tea....but the job looks quality. Just don't go overboard with the color-matching because it goes from 'tastefully done' to 'tacky' in 0.2 seconds.
trust me, i wont make the mistake like that thread with the white lancer with yellow EVERYTHING on project lancer haha, or maybe that was here??? idk either way, wow...anyways, ya tasteful is easy to screw up, def dont want that
That's definitely different!! I wonder if I painted mine silver... hmm.... LOL I dont think my car needs any more cosmetic shtuff. Kudos on being original!!
oh i think you should make the chrome on the grille flat black i think it would look better... just my $.02
haha luvmylancer ya yours is just right, i like the emphasis on the SH of stuff...shtuff lol nickbutterz: i've been thinking about what to do with that too...i want to ralliart the chrome around the grill, but i still have yet to find a kit or whatever...ive seen a few pics though and i just dont like how it doesnt lay flat where it meets the stock trim, maybe i just need to find a better kit, luvmylancer's is very nice though...but now that i think about it maybe ralliarting the chrome trim would be too much...idk i'll fig it out sooner or later, at least the hard part is done (i hated those little diamonds) i wanted to do this because i really wanted to black out my center grill like the evo and ralliart, but having a black car i couldnt do that, its ALL black!!! so i figured i'd go 1 up on it and do this...im glad mostly eveyone approves
wow nice job, flat??? i've been researching local powder coating services, think i want to go that route just because i dont have the tools to pop the tires off
