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Old Oct 22, 2010 | 10:15 AM
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Smile engine cover

just finished now need a photo shoot im horrible at taking pics
 
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Old Oct 22, 2010 | 10:47 AM
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Nice work!
 
Old Oct 22, 2010 | 10:57 AM
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Turned out great!
 
Old Oct 22, 2010 | 11:21 AM
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That looks great! How did you prep the plastic for paint?
 
Old Oct 23, 2010 | 02:31 PM
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alot of sanding it was a rough surface ans it had the letters
welded plastic back in an than sanded more
took about 6 hrs just 4 sanding
 
Old Oct 23, 2010 | 11:44 PM
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painted mine,see avatar,used dupli color adhesion promoter first,then the color: plasticoat chevy orange,then i used black and white touch-up paint from wal mart for the detail areas(brush came in handy)and topped it off with dupli color clear effex clearcoat with glitter,turned out very good and i was pleased,even though it took me a week to get it done!
 
Old Oct 24, 2010 | 07:51 AM
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Looks good rookie13! Very shiney!

Originally Posted by supercharged05ss
painted mine,see avatar,used dupli color adhesion promoter first,then the color: plasticoat chevy orange,then i used black and white touch-up paint from wal mart for the detail areas(brush came in handy)and topped it off with dupli color clear effex clearcoat with glitter,turned out very good and i was pleased,even though it took me a week to get it done!
I was looking at your engive cover in the other thread and trying to figure out exactly what you got going on there. How does the clearcoat glitter look? Have you got any bigger pics?
 
Old Oct 24, 2010 | 02:11 PM
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can only see the glitter in direct sunlight.
 
Old Oct 30, 2010 | 12:26 PM
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thanks for the comments
 
Old Oct 30, 2010 | 01:46 PM
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You sir... are pimp...
 

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