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Finally finished painting my engine cover. What a PITA! Should have been just spray a couple coats in the color I want - cake right?
Well...not so fast. Here's a teaser of the finished product.
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This caps off the final touch (for the time being) to my motor swap here:
http://my.is/forums/f114/aristo-swap-work-progress-329091/
This took me almost a week of on and off work to get right. It started like how all covers start...several coats of the primary color - gloss black for mine. But the thing was, I wanted the raised letters to be silver like it was stock. So I devised a way where after letting the primary coat dry, I masked off the raised letter area and sprayed a masking layer with one of those temp paint products. Then I took a flat sanding block and sanded the mask and paint off the top of the raised letters.
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So after letting that dry for a day...I'd take off the taping mask, and just wash off the temp paint mask with a brush and I should be done with perfect letters right? Nope. Darn temp paint mask was a b*tch to wash off. Had to take a tooth brush and go over each area like 50 times before the mask came off. After all that...the stuff stained the original primary black coat! ARGH Battle plan two...last resort.
Tape off the nicely painted silver letters and respray based coat. This was another PITA. Ever test your patience with an xacto knife cutting a tape mask? I sure did. Friggen too many w's in "two way twin turbo." My wife was happy as I had to dig into her scrap booking tools for the right xacto and tweezers.
Fruits of my labor. You can see the slight white staining around the letters
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Okay...couple more coats of primary and hope the tape mask worked. Another day left to dry and - score...edges are still nice and clean. edgy would be proud.
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Final product.
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Well...not so fast. Here's a teaser of the finished product.
This caps off the final touch (for the time being) to my motor swap here:
http://my.is/forums/f114/aristo-swap-work-progress-329091/
This took me almost a week of on and off work to get right. It started like how all covers start...several coats of the primary color - gloss black for mine. But the thing was, I wanted the raised letters to be silver like it was stock. So I devised a way where after letting the primary coat dry, I masked off the raised letter area and sprayed a masking layer with one of those temp paint products. Then I took a flat sanding block and sanded the mask and paint off the top of the raised letters.
So after letting that dry for a day...I'd take off the taping mask, and just wash off the temp paint mask with a brush and I should be done with perfect letters right? Nope. Darn temp paint mask was a b*tch to wash off. Had to take a tooth brush and go over each area like 50 times before the mask came off. After all that...the stuff stained the original primary black coat! ARGH Battle plan two...last resort.
Tape off the nicely painted silver letters and respray based coat. This was another PITA. Ever test your patience with an xacto knife cutting a tape mask? I sure did. Friggen too many w's in "two way twin turbo." My wife was happy as I had to dig into her scrap booking tools for the right xacto and tweezers.
Fruits of my labor. You can see the slight white staining around the letters
Okay...couple more coats of primary and hope the tape mask worked. Another day left to dry and - score...edges are still nice and clean. edgy would be proud.
Final product.
