painting trim pieces
Originally Posted by italstalnprd86
looking unhot...... dude, did you like read my interior posts, then like copy them..... im starting to think that, anyway, im matching mine to the car, 3 coats of paint, and 3-4 clear, your blue doesnt look arrival blue to me either....
Originally Posted by italstalnprd86
looking unhot...... dude, did you like read my interior posts, then like copy them..... im starting to think that, anyway, im matching mine to the car, 3 coats of paint, and 3-4 clear, your blue doesnt look arrival blue to me either....
second...why do u write "like" after everything you say?
i did my dash pieces DupliColor Cherry Red, as well as inside my gauges and the bezel. it was a good match to the seat and door inserts i think. i clear coated the gauge shroud as well to keep the glossiness all over. also removed the dash SS badge from the passenger side to fully complete debadging. i'll try to get some pics soon.
hmmm, liked the idea of it better than it turned out.
think it might look better if the hvac control panel wasn't still silver. masking it off to preserve the little light holes would be pointless, but did you consider something like masking off perfect circles just outside the indicators, then painting blue around those? if you did your knobs silver to match that, it might not look that bad. just seems unfinished to me now, though.
think it might look better if the hvac control panel wasn't still silver. masking it off to preserve the little light holes would be pointless, but did you consider something like masking off perfect circles just outside the indicators, then painting blue around those? if you did your knobs silver to match that, it might not look that bad. just seems unfinished to me now, though.
That looks really good. I've been thinking about painting the vent colors, but with my bright yellow car, I'm wondering if it's going to come out more rice than some understated darker colors
Originally Posted by flobeelicious
hmmm, liked the idea of it better than it turned out.
think it might look better if the hvac control panel wasn't still silver. masking it off to preserve the little light holes would be pointless, but did you consider something like masking off perfect circles just outside the indicators, then painting blue around those? if you did your knobs silver to match that, it might not look that bad. just seems unfinished to me now, though.
think it might look better if the hvac control panel wasn't still silver. masking it off to preserve the little light holes would be pointless, but did you consider something like masking off perfect circles just outside the indicators, then painting blue around those? if you did your knobs silver to match that, it might not look that bad. just seems unfinished to me now, though.
well it looks really clean in person, looks very stock. also you cant really tell with how the sun is hitting the HU in that pic but that
HU's silver and the HVAC silver are very similar in color which makes it look pretty nice.
heres a really bad photoshop of how it might look with the hvac painted blue too, in my opinion its just a little too much,
but others might like it like that, to every man his own of course, but in my opinion how it looks without the hvac painted looks awwwwesome.

HU's silver and the HVAC silver are very similar in color which makes it look pretty nice.
heres a really bad photoshop of how it might look with the hvac painted blue too, in my opinion its just a little too much,
but others might like it like that, to every man his own of course, but in my opinion how it looks without the hvac painted looks awwwwesome.

Originally Posted by 97CIVIC
Nice But It Will Look Kind Of Ugly Whit Different Color Inserts
Originally Posted by vic_romano
I wanna paint mine like this...probably see if i can buy a HVAC unit somewhere that is black...


playswitcars, did you do this yourself or did you take it to a body shop?
Originally Posted by iso
i like this idea but leaving the center pieces the stock silver and then doing the rest color matched.
playswitcars, did you do this yourself or did you take it to a body shop?
playswitcars, did you do this yourself or did you take it to a body shop?
they look better on that camera, you should have molded that dash kit right into the bezel, and made it seemless, that is what i did with mine, i think it will look sick when it is all done, however it wont see paint for prolly another week... good work man
Originally Posted by SS SChgd
Does a base car come with all black trim? I'm getting a new radio and might want to change over instead of paint, but it looks nice like that.






