just thought id share my experience with tamiya orange clear, and smoke model paint, as the krylon stained glass paint is discontinued to my knowledge.

i bought the black housing signals and corners, and wanted to make them a dark, dark orange, like vision smoked corners but darker.

ok so heres how mine went.


started with an extra clearcorner to test out some coats.


oooOOOooohh, jdm paint y0!!


1 coat


3 coats and one of smoke


seeing how the colour was turning out, i realized that it would take numerous coats to attain the deep orange look im going for and decided to save some paint, so i stopped and, started on the new black housing corners i had, and was going to use.

so after numerous coats of orange, and 2 coats of smoke afterward, this is what i ended up with. you can see the test models i used above. (i will be putting on another coat or two of smoke to make them even darker)



better light




i am very pleased with how they turned out.




but after putting them on my car, i now want them darker, but they still look okay.

so i sprayed some more smoke, and now im happy, this is exactly how i wanted them to turn out.
before:

after:






Modified by juice91si at 7:33 PM 2/9/2006

 

good stuff

 

awesome job. how would we get our hands on some of that Tamiya brand Clear Orange?

 

yeah where did u get that neat paint?

 

show us a pic w/ the headlights in

 

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for a dealer near you:
https://www.tamiyausa.com/dealers/index.php

and in canada, contact your local hobby shop, i had to scour around the net to find someone who had it in stock

http://www.borgfeldt.ca/

http://www.tamiya.ca/

i ended up buying it from here:
http://www.modelland.com/

 

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im lazy, and its cold out, but when i do put the headlights back in, a picture will be taken asap.

 

great job.....best DIY ambering job I've seen to date

 

is it just me or does anyone else notice that those corners are for 90 91 and the bumper is for 88 89?

 

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correctamundo my friend, i like the 88-89 bumper better, so i used it on my 91 civic si

 

nice..very nice!

 

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x2 xD

 

The only thing I hate about this way of doing it is that one: you risk the possibility of chipping, 2: spray cans suck, and 3: you get a funky texture. I am going to bake mine and pull them apart and have my buddy use is airbrush to put the paint on. Will have photos up sometime in the near future.

 

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all valid points. i intend on spraying clearcoat on them , and wetsanding a bit to alleviate said problems.

 

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all valid points. i intend on spraying clearcoat on them , and wetsanding a bit to alleviate said problems. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Get krylone clear gloss finish, it is UV resistant and will help resist fading

 

i like it like that too. Pure SEX
pringles are expensive where you live

 

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LoL. Peewee, you didnt just take down my address to molest me did you ?

 

no, too far of a drive. maybe when i get out of the army

 

haha thats awsome, im joining the marines in a few months.

 

not to thread jack but i know the stained glass is still available at michaels craft stores, i just got a can like 2 months ago..

nice diy though! i did my sedans too

 

personally i use the amber bulps that they sell they look real nice n make the ligths real neat

 

That looks nice on your black EF. But i'm not sure does it look okay with other brighter colors.

Anyway, nice DIY!

 

ok, so i finished putting the headlights in, and it was night time, so the lighting sucked, the camera sucks, so whattya know, the pictures suck too. ill get some if i have time tmw.

 

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dude that looks awsome! i like how they almost match the black on your crex but yet you can still see the amber. good job & excellent diy