planning to paint some car parts

[stocky]

ive been thinking of colour coding some parts of my car soon. i have a white vn berlina with all those black strips on the sides and bumpers. (check my avatar)

i want to paint the mirrors, black strips along the side, and the black strips along the skirts of the car. anyone have any experience with this, or any ideas that could help me out?

[vnberlwagon]

ive been thinking of colour coding some parts of my car soon. i have a white vn berlina with all those black strips on the sides and bumpers. (check my avatar)

i want to paint the mirrors, black strips along the side, and the black strips along the skirts of the car. anyone have any experience with this, or any ideas that could help me out?

When u say strips along the side, do u mean the plastic one on the doors?
If thats what u r referring to then see if u can get hold of some white protection strips from a later model, eg; VP,VR or VS.
When I finally get around to painting my car (VN) the old ones will be replaced by VR model strips.

[stocky]

yeah those are the strips i meant. also the black/grey parts along the bottom of the doors and bumpers.

planning on doing my mirrors this weekend. just with apine white paint and primer from a can. can i just get that at autobarn?

[YMY-88U]

when you do it, make sure you sand back the grey areas on the bumpers as they have some sort of pattern in them and they will show if you dont sand them back. you wont be able to fit colour coded strips from other model cars like vp and vr as they used a different colour white, but yeh, alpine white and primer should do it

[YMY-88U]

oh, and dont go through any high pressure car washes as they strip the s*** out of the paint, trust me, im speaking from experience...

[IhateRICE!]

hey all

I was thinkin of doin some sort of design on my CAI and i was goin to use some spare car paint which matches the car.. or would i have to use like a heat resistant stuff??

Cheers

[hardlyevolved]

Hey guys, I was thinking of painting the plastic cover that goes over the supercharger, (I don't know what it's called, there's probably a name for it), just to make it stand out a bit when I pop the bonnet. Do you know if this is possible and if so, what paint should I use?

[stocky]

ok got myself a group a bonnet bulge today. whats the best way to paint this?

also, awesome signature hardlyevolved

[STEALTHY™]

If you havn't painted the side stripes yet, DON'T, they look better like you have them, full sleeper.

Mirrors yes, but not the sides.

[STEALTHY™]

Hey guys, I was thinking of painting the plastic cover that goes over the supercharger, (I don't know what it's called, there's probably a name for it), just to make it stand out a bit when I pop the bonnet. Do you know if this is possible and if so, what paint should I use?

theres some threads in the VR/VS section about it. and theres a guide to help you hand paint the letters a different colour aswell. I'm pretty sure your just talking about the plastic engine cover, theres not actually a special name for it.

[stocky]

If you havn't painted the side stripes yet, DON'T, they look better like you have them, full sleeper.

Mirrors yes, but not the sides.

alright i might not paint them. got the paint for the mirrors today though, hope i dont screw them up.

im still thinking about the grey strips along the bottom though

[hardlyevolved]

Thanks Stealthy, I'll check it out.
Yeah, no matter how much money I make, it always wants more!!

[YMY-88U]

alright i might not paint them. got the paint for the mirrors today though, hope i dont screw them up.

im still thinking about the grey strips along the bottom though

yeh i reckon you should go ahead and spray the ones along the bottom, or buy some ss skirts. i bought the ss spoiler for the front and it looks really good, if i decide to keep my car, im gonna buy the rear skirts aswell, hopefully it will look the goods... but still, anything will look better than the crappy faded grey colour

[stocky]

yeah im planning on getting front and rear SS lips and just paint the grey side parts.

did a bit of work in photoshop today on it. included all that, some VZ SS fender vents, new wheels and a group a bulge on it. turned out alright. now if only i had the money