Three cheers to hcca and red paint!

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Three cheers to hcca and red paint!

Post by hoongirl »

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

Kelfys dash put back together
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and a night shot
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My dash before shot
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My dash after shot
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Three cheers to hcca and red paint! :beer

And now we're off to the pub to celebrate :D :D :D
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Post by Cookiemonster »

I bet Kelfy blew his load when he saw that.
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Post by CussCuss »

looks great.
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Post by TD05 »

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

uh , nice dash btw :D
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Post by JPC »

Excellent stuff!
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Post by Darkelf »

Cookiemonster wrote:I bet Kelfy blew his load when he saw that.
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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
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Post by Darkelf »

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. :(
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Post by merlin »

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


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Post by hcca »

Thanks guys :) Looks heaps better with the red needles too.
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Post by avandull »

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?
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i need one, if i dont get one i'll explode. that happens to me sometimes
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Post by merlin »

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

curse you kelfy, out-riced me again :x
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Post by Defective »

avandull wrote:Nice work. Where did you get the new faces from?
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Post by Darkelf »

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
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Post by SCORP 1 »

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
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