Showing posts with label plastidip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plastidip. Show all posts

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Plastidip... many love it and many hate it. Can't deny that it's a cheap mod though...Taco time!

So after getting my TRD "BRO" Pro grill I decided to fiddle with accentuating the letters.

I had extra cans of red so here I went...



Yesterday I decided to shoot my Quicksand basecoat on the letters and tone it down. I even used Plastidip Glossifier on top and it's holding fine.

Give the stuff a try if you want to see what a color looks like before you make it permanent. It helps protect it from the elements too. Just be sure to put plenty and I mean PLENTY  of coats of you'll be hating life trying to pick up small remnants of the stuff.


Friday, June 19, 2015

Dipping wheels and emblems. Cheap way to change things up

One of my first mods was using PlastiDip to change my wheel color and black out my front and rear emblems.

Emblems were coated with matte black then glossifier.

The wheels I wanted a bronze hue and used 3 coats of matte black, 2 good coats of copper metallizer and 2 coats of glossifier. The nice thing about dipping the wheels is the color is close to brake dust color so I just hose it off and go on my way.

ghetto masking

getting those wheels off!

3 coats of black
finished product with 2 coats of copper metallizer and glossifier


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My DIY splitter / lip for the R. Cheap mod!

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