Painted Engine cover.

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b88dragon
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So i was bored, and had the day off work today. So i finally finished painting my engine cover. let me know what you guys think.

This is the first picture, i didnt tape it too well so some of the white got into the blue.

This is after on impulse. I decided to give it a quick spray of the paint to have a 'snowy' effect. I like it better, might not be as crisp and clear as before but i like it.

so hope you guys like it. I tried to mask off where the big ovals were to just get the rim, but was too hard so i gave up. but i like the end result, looks cool


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Marisha
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PHENOMenalVinyl
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looks sweet !!!!! how did u do the dragon ???

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headhunt3r
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Dayum looks good!

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bravey_z12
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u done ur headlights? u jumped into painting cover j/k j/k j/ku did nice job ,sir[esp the dragon]

noshift
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i had my engine cover painted white initially and then i changed my mine and painted it gloss black. white got way to dirty.

b88dragon
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PhEnoM78 wrote:looks sweet !!!!! how did u do the dragon ???
I did the dragon, by lookin it up on the internet hhaha, and then just photoshopped it to enlarge the picture.

Painted the whole cover blue first. let it dry for an hr. then let it cure for about 7days. then i just used some maskign tape, and traced the outline of the dragon from a sheet or paper, careful not to add any pressure onto the tape so it doesnt stick to the paper.peel that off, stick the maskin tape onto the cover and slowly cut it out with a very sharp knife or blade. then once it was all done, i painted the whole cover white. let that dry then peel off the tape and BAM...blue dragon ahah.
bravey_z12 wrote:u done ur headlights? u jumped into painting cover j/k j/k j/ku did nice job ,sir[esp the dragon]
No im not done with my headlights, cover came with quicker results haha.

Im just currently savign up funds for a new set of lights, cuz my spare/practice one is totally destroyed and cant be used agains lol. So til then the lights are on hold. but i did learn alot and i got a few new ideas that hopefully would turn out great.

Thanks for the comment every ^_^

Blackmobile
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that looks really really really.. really nice! but i think you should have left some more blue trim around the whole cover. looks great nonetheless.

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LOOKS PRETTY BAD a**


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