Austarion

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:15 pm**

Today Kelfy and I put hcca's red dials into our staz's... needless to say kelfy is very excited :D

We thought the orangey/white needles looked pretty horrible with the new dials, so we scraped the old paint off with a knife and painted them red to see what they would look like...

Surprisingly enough it worked! An art paint called gouache was used because it's thick and opaque.

Kelfys dash put back together

and a night shot

My dash before shot

My dash after shot

Three cheers to hcca and red paint! :beer

And now we're off to the pub to celebrate :D :D :D

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:00 pm**

I bet Kelfy blew his load when he saw that.

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:02 pm**

looks great.

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2004 9:52 pm**

doesn't anybody's battery charge gauge work????

uh , nice dash btw :D

Posted: **Sun Dec 12, 2004 1:08 am**

Excellent stuff!

Posted: **Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:46 am**

Cookiemonster wrote:I bet Kelfy blew his load when he saw that.

I only get off on playing with girls but it seems YOU spend an awful lot of time alone with your car in the garage! :o

Posted: **Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:49 am**

TD05 wrote:doesn't anybody's battery charge gauge work????

uh , nice dash btw :D

Both ours work. You need to take the thing apart and bend the terminals down.
It still only moves a small amount though. :(

Posted: **Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:05 pm**

well done guys.
i even lashed out and got a white face autometer boost gauge for mine.
sweet :D

dont you just love winding cookie up? rofl

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:52 am**

Thanks guys :) Looks heaps better with the red needles too.

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:03 pm**

The fuel gauge is in a familiar position. If the Starion is not on empty it will be soon. Fuel guzzling thing that they are.
Nice work. Where did you get the new faces from?
Allan

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 2:27 pm**

i need one, if i dont get one i'll explode. that happens to me sometimes

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:49 pm**

somebody find some LUMINOUS red paint, so I can paint needles too. :D

curse you kelfy, out-riced me again :x

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 4:59 pm**

avandull wrote:Nice work. Where did you get the new faces from?
Allan

http://austarion.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2634

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 8:21 pm**

merlin wrote:somebody find some LUMINOUS red paint, so I can paint needles too. :D

curse you kelfy, out-riced me again :x

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Posted: **Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:55 pm**

Where do you get the needle paint from?? My needles *were* orange and are now faded... Near the middle they're orange and they fade to white at the end..

Or I've got some red hobby paint somewhere, will that work? :D