My Hot Rod S2000

[Fastandfurious]

props to you guys who did the euro tail lights. They turned out real nice. I am just starting to paint them on my zz civic and bit WRX. Any tips on how to make them. They look hella "ricin." lol nevermind that was lame.

[crazydave]

Fastandfurious, I just colored in the dots with a red Sharpie marker on mine. You have to be very careful clear coating over marker, or it will just make a mess, but if you lay several light misting coats before you lay any thicker ones, you should be ok.

However, I was just using what I had laying around. Ideally if you were painting with enamel, then you would want a little jar of model paint, like Testors or Tamiya. If you're painting with acrylic laquer, like me, then you need a little jar of touch up paint from the automotive store. (Pep Boys, Autozone, etc.) Candy Red should come out transparent, and you'd just dab it on with a fine tip paint brush, that you can find at a craft or art supply store.

I painted mine silver from the outside, because I had already used silver as a base coat, but in Cabo Wabo's thread for his S2000 he painted his silver from the inside, and that has a nice realistic effect. I'll be using that on my next project.

[Fastandfurious]

Thanx crazydave for the tips on euro tail lights. Im working on them. By the way your project Supra is tight.

[crazydave]

Tried to do a another flamed out S2K, but I'm not happy with it.

Because I layed the white thicker it seeped under the tape a little more than the blue. So ther is a slight white edge on parts of the flame, and I got sloppy with the blue fade.

I don't like it. What do you think, am I being too picky?

It still needs to be clear coated.

nah, I know what you're thinking in your head though...
you're a perfectionist like payaso and myself.
just remember, we can't see everything you can
(keep striving for perfection, you'll get it and it'll be the bomb)

from the pics, I like the white, it adds an accent to the flames.

[payaso]

Originally posted by CaboWabo
nah, I know what you're thinking in your head though...
you're a perfectionist like payaso and myself.
just remember, we can't see everything you can
(keep striving for perfection, you'll get it and it'll be the bomb)

from the pics, I like the white, it adds an accent to the flames.

I agree.. It looks real good dude.. I get so mad at the slightest screw up, that I wanna break stuff...lol

The good thing is your pics don't show what you see..



silla

[Lord_Nick_D]

I like it as is it adds to the flames and looks like a silver outline people sometimes putt around them and about the fading it looks fine your the master of flames
have you ever thought of doing Ghost flames (simi transarent flames) I cant figure what you would use but that would be absolutely amazing

[crazydave]

Originally posted by payaso
I agree.. It looks real good dude.. I get so mad at the slightest screw up, that I wanna break stuff...lol

The good thing is your pics don't show what you see..



silla

Ahhh, so you understand. This body would have went through he wall, except it doesn't weigh enough

Funny I thought the pictures brought out the white lines.

Something the pictures are not showing, and I even tried to take it out into the sun to show it, but that didn't work either, is the cool metal flake effect I gave it. I laid a couple mist coats of silver, and a couple mist coats of charcoal. So I had silver and charcoal kinda blended together, then I gave a thick coat of charcoal, which lifted and mixed the previous coats giving it a silvery look, that looks like bit-sized metal flakes, but for some odd reason it just comes out black in the picture, and all I see are little white lines.

have you ever thought of doing Ghost flames (simi transarent flames) I cant figure what you would use but that would be absolutely amazing

I have considered that. I think you wouild just use a candy color, because they are tranparent, but what I'm going to try are disappearing flames. I'd like to tell you how I'm going to do that, but I'm saving that for the Bit Pimps contest, and if I told you, I'd have to kill you.

Dave

[Lord_Nick_D]

I'm not entering the contest so do you mind if I give you my sudgestions
if you have color changing paint
do the whole car in one color then use colour changing paint to do the flames having one of the colors matching the body paint
I think it would leave it classy (sp) and give a good overall effect by not being too flashy but still having something different