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[Bean]

looking good!

some nice chunks of black paint have just fallen off my cosmics They're purple underneath

What paint did you buy in the end?

[*DJH*]

PURPLE!!!!



Oh dear

[stardude]

i sed halfords black stuff. promably wrong stuff dont know.

EDIT: i USED halfords black stuff. promably wrong stuff dont know.

heres a pic of one of the finished ones. got to tidy up the edges a little and polish them up a bit more

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what do you think?

adam

Edited by stardude, 28 July 2007 - 06:48 PM.

[Mincento]

loooking very nice, half tempted get a set of these for mine

wayne

[Bean]

oh GOD, yes!!

I'm re-doing mine! (When I can be arsed and find some other random wheels to run around on )


fantastic job, adam!!

[stardude]

yay approval!

just 4 to go

[Ethel]

Looks like a job well done. Surely googling "paint aluminium aluminum" will come up with some useful info.

I wonder if there's not something you can paint on to use for masking PVA mould release might work.

Regarding the wheel centres - couldn't you cut a disc of alloy or plaggy with a suitably sized hole saw or even cast a centre in resin?

[stardude]

i just spoke to the guy who i bought the wheels off. he said he found the original centres for these wheels and said i could have them

[minipete]

Result,the wheels look really good,
me and my old man put his mini on to 10" steel cooper wheels,i blasted them 1st,sanded them, then etch primered them before a couple of coats of Halfords silver and a couple of coats of lacquer.Job done they look really good and suit the mini.

[stealth05]

lookin good mate tip for you when polishing , use fine wire wool and solvol autosol polishing cream then rub until it goes black then polish off with fine wire wool , will come up like chrome

[stardude]

cheers

for the tip

[stardude]

right, update.

got four completly finished, and the 5th is half way throught being primered but i ran out of primer

personaly i think they look great!

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adam

Edited by stardude, 31 July 2007 - 03:02 PM.

[Bean]

Fantastic job, Adam Are these going on the mini in your avatar?

I'm SO going to be doing this to mine at some point! They look fantastic!

[stardude]

yeah they are going on the avatar mini, with white walles and yokohama a032's

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Ace job mate, makes me want have a go at mine now!
Dunno if I'd have the patience mask them up like you have though!!