My car build thread

[Legend_master]

No way its going to be done by this week! How many times you want me to skip from work?:p
The clear should be painted this Saturday. I *think* everything should be done in another 2 weeks. Sanding+polishing.. ugh.. I miss driving her with the music thumping.. Damn the system should sound better with all those sound proofing stuffs I installed. must... get... her... done... FAST!
BTW can someone chop the rims to bronze? I wonder how its going to look like with that orange. I'm at work (LOL) and no PS here.

Oh please dont put bronze rims with that paint, that will look horrid. Maybe black or gunmetal, but no bronze.

[Hazwan]

Oh please dont put bronze rims with that paint, that will look horrid. Maybe black or gunmetal, but no bronze.

Thats what I thought. Anyone can chop it for me?

[Pico]

Beautiful and fast work Hazwan

[Hazwan]

Not real update.. Just couple of pics of the paint.

Those dots are from my camera, the paint is fine. Sorry for the blurry pics

[lkrfn5283]

GJ! Keep up the good work man!

[Hazwan]

So ugh, its still early in the morning, waiting for the weather to warm up a little before I can proceed with final clear layers... Updates in another 6 hours or so

Anyway, I did this last night, what do you think? I don't know if I like the lightings.. I'll try with UV LEDs later on to see if its good. I'll repaint the bezel to black or something. Dark silver + white doesn't go well together IMO. What color should I paint the needles? Blue, red or black?

Sorry for crappy pics.







Can't hurt to have a little rice right?

[2ndGenGuy]

It wouldn't be a Honda without a little rice.

I think it looks good, but you won't be able to see those needles at night unless you paint them a different color. Red and orange are practically opposite colors of blue, and they'll disappear. Black might work, but for ultimate bling, paint them UV reactive and use the UV LEDs. Then they'll glow at night!

[Hazwan]

Few hours later....

[Hazwan]

Oppsss...

[LX-incredible]

Getting excited?
Looking good.

[A18A]

wow, that does look really nice what happened in the last pic?

[2oodoor]

Nice
work
Hazwan!

I agree, bronze wheels woulld not look as good as either polished alum or gunmetal (dark). I like the bronze on dark blue, green, black, dark grey cars personally.

[Hazwan]

More pics:

[A18A]

thats just great

[epic1400cs]

[MessyHonda]

yum

[Hazwan]

Assembled the body panels. Now waiting for the paint to fully cure before I can proceed with sand + polish. 2 layers of clear took a long time to cure

Anyway, pics!









The paint is too pretty to be posted in 640x480

[A18A]

wow thats soo nice

[MessyHonda]

shinny....like a new penny

[Legend_master]

That looks great, and I am feeling the gunmetal more then the gold wheels.

[epic1400cs]

Gorgeous!!

For the wheel color, I personally think silver gives good contrast to the whole car.
If not, color cordinated gold would be my choice.

[offthahook]

Man, that looks tight! Where did you actually spray the car? In a garage or outdoors?

[Hazwan]

Thanks. I think I'll go with gunmetal, gold and maybe bronze looks.. meh

The car is painted outdoors, I have no garage. There are some dusts on the paint, but I hope sanding will fix that. I'm not looking for 100% flawless paintjob. I am really happy on how the paint turns out. It's a lot better than expected! I must say the paint looks a lot better than what an average body shop work. So far the the costs for the materials+paint is hair over $200, which is still within my budget

[Hazwan]

double post

[Civic Accord Honda]

SEXY and bronz well be sex on the rims