I'll give it a try and see how it works

 

wow if u made this as a kit.....

 

that is SO AWESOME!!!!! i need to learn how to do this asap

 

man, i just got my package that was supposed to have 50 led's...well it had 50 510ohm resistors...

im not going to pay shipping back to the supplier to exchnage these, so they better pay up.

 

On man.. they sent ya the resistors & NOT the led's?? terribleee....... are you sure you didnt get them.. they come in like a strip.. cant be more than 3 inches long... very tiny......... good luck, man! I hate to see a fellow Missourian get f**ked up like that!.... jh

 

well theres one package, which i havent unopened. i can see the resistors..but theres somethng else, but it dont look like led's.

i dont want to open the package, because its anti static packaging...

 

my led's came in a strip about a quarter inch high by about 3 inches long.. each white led square was in it's own little tiny compartment in the strip.. & the resistors came in like a static bag & they were strung together as well...... I cannot temember if they were in the same anti static pack, though...... anyways. good luck.. jh.... hhhhhmmmmmmmm

 

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=187351
[check out this thread... page one.. about halfway down to MY first post.. there is a pic of what the led's look like in the strip with the resistors I got from jay pan... see if you have those...... jh

 

i was thinking the led was a little...bigger then that. but i guess i got them...just not what i expected.

 

well there you go! You got them... good luck with your install.. show us your pictures when you get 'er done!... jh

 

i don't got photoshop (im broke really) the only thing i would change is the last pic. mabye have a more modern looking needle on a record. other than that i really like it anyways in the future i could order something like this im sure i could do it myself i just don't have photoshop and i gotta mac....

 

how much to do a los angeles dodgers one for me? let me know. you have some mad skills

 

Opinions?

I'm a horn player if you can't tell =P

 

found a place tat tells you how to install the gauges

www.myspace.com/xbgauges

they got the intall for 1st and 2nd generation xBs![/url]

 

Good find.

 

Very Nice! Nice colors too!!! I salute you guys that can photoshop these together.. I wish I could figgues out my copy of PS 3.. I have a few ideas, but for the life of me I cannot seperate the layers of that template the guy gave us..
Moose.. if you want to help some do theirs.. please Pm me & you can help out a poor soul if you want to... One question I have is.. can you make one of thes WITHOUT the ICONS for lights, cruise, & stuff......... Why do those have to be printed?? or can they be printed on a second overlay to be used UNDER your finished one>>?? Will they shine thru to the final one without the icons..???? .. jh

 

man i love SL ;)

i appreciate the ALL positive feedback i've gotten here, and i do appreciate your requests for me doing the photoshop work, but i just don't have time... 60+ hour workweeks at my job have been excruciating, plus i have tons of commitments so i barely have time for myself as it is, you know how it is, never enough hours in a day... =( i hope u guys understand where i'm coming from.

initially i spent a lot of time posting this tutorial cause i wanted to empower others with an incredibly inexpensive way to make quality gauges. and i may not have the time to work on designs, but i completely welcome anyone else to help others with the photoshopping cause i know there are ppl with photoshopping skillz on here (i.e. moosemobile? sho0b0x?) hell maybe someone with some entrepreneurial skills could turn this into a small photoshopping business.

 

NICE MooseMobile!! i like the crazy french horn labyrinth looking thing on the right, and your middle gauge with the circular piano notes around the treble clef is freaking PERFECT! i also noticed how instead of the *Sound waves* on my original template, you have the *Staff system*. Radness.

 

Sweet dude, that's Jason Night's site (the guy I thanked @ the end of my tutorial)... *major* props to him, he's a hellava cool guy.

 

jimmbomb, whats up man... you definitely need the icons printed -- cause underneath the original gauge is *nothing* but a circular light.

underlay icons... i've never tried but in my opinion a second underlay would not work well using this method, because anything dark/black on the *overlay* would cover up anything behind it. you need the gray icons to allow the light behind to pass through.

i bet there are exceptions where a second underlay would work, but first your gauge would need to be *white* on the areas where any icon shows underneath. secondly, you'd have to choose graphic designs carefully so as not to cover the light of the icons on the underlay. and even if you did... the main problem is that the two pieces of photo paper might mask nearly all of the colored icon light behind, so the dark red "brake' might come through being light red.