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RSR style Cookie Cutters?, Trying something new |
roachghia70 |
Apr 12 2014, 12:54 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 2,153 Region Association: Northern California |
Maybe it's not new, but I haven't seen it before.
I love the look of RSR Fuchs. But I can only afford Cookie Cutters right now. So I'm trying to make the best of it, and give the cookie cutters the best chance they will have at looking the part. It's a fun little project. Please let me know what you think. Please note, these are just rough mock-ups at this stage, just to test the concept. If they look good, I will clean them up and paint them nicely. For now, they were just wiped down with a rag, masked, and sprayed. So please don't fret about poor masking, paint imperfections, or the minor curb rash. Here's the first one: (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397285660.1.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397285660.2.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397285660.3.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397285660.4.jpg) Yes, my 4 year old and I were doing arts and crafts together. I thought the wheel turned out pretty nice! But it wasn't quite what I was looking for. On this one, I painted the entire lip silver. But I understand that RSR wheels had the outside edge polished. So I decided to try that next: |
roachghia70 |
Apr 19 2014, 08:17 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 48 Joined: 3-June 04 From: Santa Cruz, CA Member No.: 2,153 Region Association: Northern California |
Update!
I got the 4 wheels painted and done. But I did not polish the outermost lip of the wheels. I tried to do it, but I failed with the tools I had. First, I tried using paint remover to pull off the clearcoat, but the clearcoat was not cooperating. It came off in blotches, and left chunks of clearcoat all over the wheels. So then I resorted to sanding the clearcoat and trying to flatten it all out. It was a ton of work and enormously frustrating, because the clear would gum up the sandpaper constantly. In the end, I just sanded them the best I could and simply painted the lips. I could have taken them to a polisher, or a sandblaster, or somewhere to dunk the wheels and have them stripped... but I didnt' really want to spend that kind of cash on this little project. For now, I compromised and just painted them. If I get myself a set of Fuchs, I will do it the right way. But this turned out alright, especially for a budget project!! Here's my process: 1. First I painted the whole wheel silver, so that I could mask it all off and paint the black section on top. This seemed like it would be easier than trying to mask the black part of the spokes and the lip. I then used a piece of tape to mark the line where I wanted the paint break to be. I did this because you can't really see what you are masking when you are placing the tape on the top. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397960269.1.jpg) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397960346.1.jpg) 2. Next I placed a piece of tape on the end of the spoke, so that I would have a reference that is parallel to the edge of the spoke. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397960269.2.jpg) 3. Now I could mask off the spokes. I started nearest the center, and rolled one single piece of tape all the way around. I used the piece of tape from step #2 as a reference, and kept my tape parallel to it. By rolling one piece of tape all the way around the spoke, i kept the paint break clean. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397960269.3.jpg) 4. Once the spokes were all masked off, I used electrical tape to mask off the lip right at the peak. it took some practice to use several fingers to make the tape curve around the lip without stretching it so much that it wouldn't stick. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397960269.4.jpg) 5. I then masked off the remainder of the center, and the remainder of the wheel lips: (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397960269.5.jpg) Close up: (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/i255.photobucket.com-2153-1397960269.6.jpg) |
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