Bought some dupli-color to match my car and want to paint some of the pieces in the interior. I was going to paint all the silver pieces and was wondering if you guys think i should paint the pillars by the windows as well. Also thinking of painting the ring around the speedometer. What do you think? Your opinion is greatly appreciated. Pics would be great also.

 

Have you read this post--it might help:
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6891

 

While painting small pieces to accent your car will make it look nice, doing too much will easily ruin it. My first car was an eclipse and it went from painting just a few pieces to painting the whole damn interior. While the paint looked nice it was overkill. My friends and I eventually decided that if I would have just painted the small pieces, window switch plastic (you know not the switches but the plastic around it), a couple of the center console pieces, maybe around the air vents.

Short version: Doing small pieces = cool, but it is very easy to over do

 

be very carefull... I'd hate to see you mess it up

 

I agree with Cdtcpl smal pieces look great, but can easily become overkill, google it, there are some horrible color mods on some boxes.

 

Too Much
http://www.minitruckinweb.com/featur.../photo_11.html

Way too much, don't be doin that.

 

thanks for the link to the post already on SL that is more or less what i had in mind and i agree with you guys on a little will go a long way, i am going to start painting in an hour or so and will post pics later on when i am done

 

are you doing it from a can or powdercoating it?

 

If he is doing plastic interior parts I hope he is not trying to powder coat them. They would freakin melt in the oven!

 

haha

 

yeah cant realy powdercoat anything on the interior. i used 4-5 coats of duplicolr turer red and three coats of crylon crystal clear hear are my pics cant tell in the pics cuz of the flash but it turned out flawlessly.
My work area
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And the finished product





what do you guys think? i really like how it turned out. and there was alot more work involved than i thought but it was worht it

 

Looks good.. much more then that and it will become too much for my tastes... otherwise, good job!