So I just started painting my rims. I wanted to make em a dark, almost black gunmetal sort of color. I don't want them to match my car's color which is hard because the gunmetal that Duplicolor makes is pretty much the same color. So I tried a different technique, I put a coat of black down, then sprayed the gunmetal over it lightly. Looks pretty neat, but I think it may be still too close to the car color. If my batteries weren't dead, I'd post a pic up of the one rim that I have done already. So in the meantime, I'm wondering if I should do the opposite and paint em silver instead. Can somebody do me a favor and photochop my rims for me, in both silver and a dark gunmetal? I'm trying to visualize them before I fully commit to anything.







PS its great to not have that huge dent in the door anymore, lol.

 

Well, I've only got this one done so far, Ill try to get the others later if I can. Im in the middle of a paper so I had to stop, but this PC was a nice break.

Silver:

 

oooooooooooooo

well I ended up finishing the first rim and it came out really good, better than I expected. Its more of a metallic black than gunmetal. But, its good to see what the silver looks like as well. I think it'll be too light.


Thanks so much for taking the time to do that! Now finish that paper, lol. Don't worry about the second chop. I appreciate it though!

 

No problem, Ill get back on this paper then, lol. Don't forget to post pics once your cameras working, that metallic black sounds cool.

 

And the other one:

 

oooooo the silver does look nice..

well here's how the gunmetal turned out, they're more of a black metallic:



and compared to the car color:



also I'm polishing the lip, so thats why its all weird.

 

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Ok fixed. Sorry about that.

Yeah they'll look a lot better with the lip polished and the tire on it, mounted on the car. It was hard to get the color even, I had to mist it carefully and for whatever reason, Duplicolor decided not to put the ez touch fan nozzles on the wheel paint cans.

 

with a polished lip that should look pretty sweet.

if you've only done one, it might be a good idea to polish first, tape it off, and then paint.

 

yeah I should've done it that way but I was impatient, lol. I wanted to do the entire lip polished but that would've taken forever to sand and I think might be too much bling.

got another rim done today! The pictures dont do them justice though, they look really good in person. Im pretty happy with how theyve come out so far.




gotta get a pic of them in the sun.