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Old 08-31-2007, 12:22 AM   #61
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When you primer/paint will you try to preserve the lettering over the CD slot? Or add lettering afterwards?
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I already lost most of the lettering on both sides, only reason there still there is I didn't need to sand the center yet at all, but they will go.

not 100% sure what I'm going to do to finish this off really yet, not sure how I could redo the lettering & not have it look like ***
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Thats simply amazing.

I tried plastic welding once... but it was really old, strange plastic off of an old laptop... It worked for a while, but it wasnt all that great.... nothing like this!

I *think* you can get lettering that is made like those decals in those little model car kits (the ones you dip in water and they slip off the sheet and then when dry adhear themselves fairly permenatly in place). If done carefully, they can come out looking real good. But if it were me, id leave it slick and clean.
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I already lost most of the lettering on both sides, only reason there still there is I didn't need to sand the center yet at all, but they will go.

not 100% sure what I'm going to do to finish this off really yet, not sure how I could redo the lettering & not have it look like ***

if you want the lettering in tact (would be sweeeeet) you can either get the testors kit:

http://www.testors.com/catalog_item.asp?itemNbr=2255

and print your own (the sheets are clear or white, I'd use the white, and print black outlines, leaving the white letters as if it were blank.) Then after it's dried and bonded, a few coats of clear gloss (or satin if that's your thing) and you're good.

Or, you can try and find a shop that can cut the letters out of vinyl, but being so small it would be very hard to do.

I think it'd be fine to leave it all black. There's not really a point to label all that. You know what it is, that's what matters.
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I was watching the DTS install, because I was curious how you would do everything, I am looking at a 99ish STS with the same head unit... oh well...
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Old 09-01-2007, 01:28 PM   #65
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I might play around with some lettering, but if it doesn't look perfect then it'll kill it... well see

a few shots of the outside finishing up... this black pearl is so beautiful, I just love it, can't help staring at it, this really came out pretty, I feel like a kid with a new toy

the lower trim is straight black as a comparision...
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That looks superb!

Also what part of NY is that?! I see green!
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i think i need a new keyboard now from all the drooling! lovely, awesome, amazing, only slightly describe it.
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that's bay ridge, brooklyn
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who's lambo is that sitting next to it?
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that's a friends galardo, or how ever you spell it

sick ride, the dash is sick in that car too, theres an lcd even in the cluster... too bad it's a lambo without lambo doors though, they reserve that only for the really expensive one
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if you want the lettering in tact (would be sweeeeet) you can either get the testors kit:

http://www.testors.com/catalog_item.asp?itemNbr=2255

and print your own (the sheets are clear or white, I'd use the white, and print black outlines, leaving the white letters as if it were blank.) Then after it's dried and bonded, a few coats of clear gloss (or satin if that's your thing) and you're good.

Or, you can try and find a shop that can cut the letters out of vinyl, but being so small it would be very hard to do.

I think it'd be fine to leave it all black. There's not really a point to label all that. You know what it is, that's what matters.

Thats exaclty what i was talking about. I wonder if they make pre printed/cut decals of the CD logos and such...

You could order vinyl too, but I dont think it would come out very well. I dont think the average kinko's can handle the resolution needed to get a smooth image, let alone the fact that the inside of the lettering waste (like the hole in the D) wouldnt come out, at least not easily....

But that car is gorgeous. I never really cared for the FX, but this one has changed my mind for sure.
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I think any decal will look not good, unless it was like those rub on transfers maybe, to be mint it'd be silk screened or painted, if I could get someone who could cut tiny spray masks I could airbrush them, but the cuts are really tiny, most guys can't cut vinyl that tiny, it'd also have to be really thin to be precise, if it looks the least bit home made I'd rather not have it... gotta look into rub transfers maybe...
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Let us know how you go with the transfers. I have always wondered how I would go at getting small letters stencilled / airbrushed.
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