R33: Painting Rear Garnish

[Ruffels]

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

^^^^ As you can see!

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

^^^^ 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

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

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

^^^^ 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

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

^^^^ 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

[Ruffels]

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

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

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

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

-Ruffels

[hijaked]

i still think hot pink would have looked better!

however blue, wont stop me drivin your car :lol:

cheers

[Ruffels]

haha thanks dave...

[Ant97GTR]

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??

[Ruffels]

thats correct.. its on the outside

-Ruffels

[Midnight R33]

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.

[hijaked]

hey matt.

yea the light thingy is tops

you should fix it, me n mark saw some guy with the light garnish!!

its deffietly something to show off to your skyline buddies. they will love you

[d00dz]

Nice very nice!

The paint comes off? What type of paint was used?

[mitchy_]

i did something similar, except ive got the S2 garnish on my S1...

so its white, and i just painted the letters black, looks good

[Ruffels]

hmm yeah it didnt come out how i like it

and ive decided it looks shit so im redoing it and using spray now.. will give a much nicer finish

-Ruffels

[Ruffels]

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

[Eug]

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.

[Midnight R33]

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.

[hijaked]

hey guys.

you could always go with the S2 look.

i baught my s1 with the garnish painted/replaced?

i like it :lol:

it also came with a dent too

[krzysiu]

hehehe, if you want the series 2 look, get the spoiler

[Ruffels]

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

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

-Ruffels

[Eug]

ya dude, that looks heaps better

go the stealth wings!

[Chainfire]

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.

[hijaked]

i see you baby, shake'n that ass.

looks a lot better!