Well....after having to look at my plain flat black, paint chipped rims for a couple months, and with the H-T Meet coming up, i decided to give my rims a new look. So i decided that i would use one of the very helpful DIY wheel threads here and go to town on my old school rims

Disclaimer: OK..i know my rims are old school...i know some of you are going to say "Why did you do so much work on rims that are old, not in style(ZOMG THEYRE NOT ROTA'S!!!!) or something"...the answer...BECAUSE I EXPLATIVE CAN AND BECAUSE THEYRE MINE!!!...i just so happen to kinda like these rims for some odd reason...anways..heres my project...

UPDATE!: Finished One Rim...looks pretty good...i just kinda suck at taping since this is the first time ive painted anything lawl...i think it came out ok...Definately better than the black

Before i started anything...


Paint is almost off God...not as easy as people make it sound...


What my car would look like with a set of polished rims as opposed to black...i can say...i dont like it


The GF kicking back relaxing while i do lotsa work


Me Being Stupid... Note the blue tape ninja headband


Wheel prepped and taped off...


Prepped fully for paint...and for reference..i didnt have any notecards, but i have old Yu-Gi-Oh cards...lawl...i didnt use anything cool like the Black Magician or anything so dont flip lawl


Coat of primer


Almost done..need to do some touch up on the holes...but STILL looks better than the flat black that was before





Modified by bleakdragonmage at 1:28 PM 3/23/2007

 

bump for updates!

 

finished one wheel...will get the pic up right now

 

I think those have the potential to look good.

 

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Yea, what he said ^^^

 

uploading to photobucket right now..yea...ihave it painted but when i took the tape off..its got some lil imperfections since i did the tape cut by hand with an exacto knife..so i need to do a lil touch up...but all in all looks MUCH better than the black

 

hmmmmmmmmm

 

so you painted them silver..?

 

gunmetal...havent had a chance to mount yet cuz i still have to do the other ones...but they should look better than the black and even better once i finish the touch up around those holes...

 

so is that grey color the final color? or are you doing something different?

 

what grey??? The gunmetal or the hole things...i was debating spraying the holes with the polish duplicolor stuff...but im not sure...ill get them all mounted and decide

 

ehhhh

 

I think they're turning out ok. I never thought of shoving cards around the tire for masking...I just learned something here today.

 

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Yup, index cards work great for that. Nice job so far, I know its not easy. Here's what I would do though...Paint the whole wheel black, then polish the faces leaving the holes black. Or maybe even the other way around, polish the holes and paint the faces black. The contrast would look really nice.

 

dood those things are ugly! go save some money and buy yourself some rims

 

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....NO!.... i am not a fan of dropping like a g on rims...i personally dont want to spend 200 cuz im cheap and would much rather put money into the motor rather than putting it on wheels that will probably just make my car get jacked...i guess the argument you could pose would be "then why paint them at all...making them look bling will make someone steal it"...well...im sure everyone who looks at these rims already know what they're off of...and about how much theyre worth...as im sure any thief would know...the only rims i MIGHT buy this summer are a set of Fat five's or blades...and thats a big MIGHT...

 

fat fives or blades would set your car off!!!!! Either way...good job on using magic(?) cards to do the masking of the tire! LOL

 

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unfortunately im poor right now so i gotta make do with what i got and i just finished touch up on that rim...looks much better

 

Your masking job is horrible, man!

The paint scheme looks like those old early 90's wheels that you used to see on jeeps and trucks.

They looked better all black, imo. It masked the hideousness of the rim design.

 

wtf is lawl

 

Do you think Chapstick or something along those lines wouldve been better to use???

 

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its a WoW or gamer thing...its kinda like Lol
can also be in the form of:
El-Oh_El
Lawl
Lawlercon
etc etc

 

oh....

 

personally those are ugly to me...but whateva floats your boat...id rather rock steelies instead of those...