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Ok well i got bored today with the old silver "SKYLIN" as the paint had worn off the "E"

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^^^^ As you can see!

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^^^^ Start by removing the rear garnish and using very fine sandpaper remove the existing paint (if any)

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^^^^ Then once you have done that get special masking tape which doesnt leave a residue (as its a bitch to scrub off later) and carefully mask around the letters

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^^^^ Keep going... its very tedious lol

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Finally ... all the letters have been surrounded.. and its ready to undercoat :D

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^^^^ I chose to undercoat the letters because i didnt know how well the paint would take to the plastic surface, however in hind sight i probably wouldnt have bothered with this step

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^^^^ Here we see that the undercoat is finished.. and we let it sit for approx 2 hours before the paint goes on

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^^^^ So that i could get the paint spread across the letters nice and evenly i decided to add extra masking take so that i didnt get any paint on the rest of the garnish

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^^^^ Using a small foam paint brush, spread the paint across the letters nice and evenly

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^^^^ Finally all the letters have been painted ... let this dry for a further 1.5 hours before applying another coat if needed....

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^^^^ Once the paint had dried carefully get a stanley knife and carefully cut around all the letters seperating the paint from the masking tape

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^^^^ Then attach back to car and marvel at how bored you got today

-Ruffels

hey ruffls,

I always thought the silver paint was on the INSIDE of that garnish yet you are clearly sandpapering the outside!!!

So am I correct in saying that the silver paint is on the OUTSIDE of that garnish then??

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My one doesn't have paint on the outside. But its actually supposed to have a light in it but thanks to the previous owner its been tampered with and i cant get it open to see because they filled the whole thing with contact glue!

But thats a great idea about repainting it. Very tidy job by the way.

will have pics up tomorrow hopefully... i scrapped the blue colour and now im doing it in white to match my car.. and using spray paint so i get a glossy smooth consistant finish, unlike the paint brush which was a shit idea lol

-Ruffels

nice job mark - cant say i agree with the blue as colour choice though, i also think it looks better with the S2 garnish.

spray works fine - just as remember to have it really clean and apply light coats as it tends to pool around where the letters are raised.

black is easy - you can tint the background and still throw a neon into it.

did this a few months ago - wanted to keep the silver.

but only had gold paint lying around the house, so thought i'd use that instead.

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Man that gold on black looks nice. Real stylish.

All the other black R33's ive ever seen a just covered in stickers.

Im sad to say that i dont think i will be getting my garnish to light up any time soon :(

The things been cramed with contact glue and i just cant get it open.

If anyone has some ideas im listening.

ohk i scraped that stupid blue shit... and i painted it again, but this time i used a spray can

i think it came up really well

heres a link to what it looks like now :D

http://images.cainer.net/ruffels/paintedgarnishh.JPG

-Ruffels

Is it possible to buy chrome spray? i know that to chrome metal objects, they have to be dipped.. but is it possible to get a spray on chrome that will work on plastic?

What would look really nice, is chrome letters, and the background whatever the colour of the car is.

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