rattle can

 

Transparent paint hopefully, normal paint doesn't shine through very well.

Testors makes various colors for tinting model/RC car windows. I've used Testors transparent black paint to tint tails in the past, worked great and light shined through perfectly, with light coats.

 

Aww yeah, altezza's!

 

haha, yeah. Testors 'transparent' works great on tails.

I was actually considering doing 'all red' tails on my s5 lights before I just decided to remove the diffusers/clear-coat etc.

I just remembered, we used the Testors red-clear, on my buddy's 92 Talon taillights and it REVOLUTIONIZED the look of the back-end, lol.

It looks SOOO much better. Simply because it got rid of the orange

lol

 

Yah I made a mistake and tried Nite-Shade on my rx8 tail lights. I wanted to see what kind of a look it provided compared to Testors.

Long story short. Nite-shade = crap, Testors = perfect.

After clearcoating/wetsanding/polishing the tails a few times, it came out acceptable. But when I have more time I'm going to wetsand all of the Nite-Shade off and redo them with Testors.

 

Well **** i just happend to see this thread..

no one has been able to tell me what was done to my tails, i like them alot and they look Completely stock except they are solid red..

http://www.teamfc3s.org/forum/member...hp?img_id=1704

theres the pic of my tails... even the reverse light was red.. they really looked good too bad i'm selling my FC..

anyway i wont look at this thread again as i'm only on here to sell my car right now..

Good luck guys it wouldent be too hard to covert some S5 tails to LED lights. i would of done it if i could of stayed with my car.

Anyway guys take care.

Jess

 

Yours look different. They just look like all the bulbs were replaced with red ones, pretty illegal!

 

haha, really?

Yeah, VHT is pretty hard to work with. But I've been *mostly* sucessful with it. My FTP's, blinkers and reflectors are all tinted using it... I tried to re-do a different set of FTP's, but the stuff kept 'spider-webbing'. I dunno... I've had sucess and failure, but overall I like the stuff.

It worked out great on my N/A's taillights:



It's a light coat, but it turned out well...

 

Yah the light coats seemed to look normal, but I was trying to get it a bit darker and once I started going deeper into the coats it was looking more purple/black rather than straight black. Plus it was looking dull rather than glossy.

The clearcoat/wetsand/polish/repeat fixed the dullness a tad, but it's still not glassy or as much of a deep black as I'd like.

Some comparison shots. Left looking crappy and right after some wetsanding and clearcoating a few times, then polishing. Also top pics are without flash, bottom with.



Another, left is good one after sanding and such.



Both finished.




I want to redo them in Testors merely to get a deeper black color.

 

huh... I gotta find some pics of my friends VR6 Corrado, who's tails were done with VHT... They're perfectly black. Although you're right, they do turn 'purple' under light. I dunno, I think that's just how 'black' pigment is. For example, I'm dying my N/A seats right now, and the RIT dye I'm using turns purple as it gets diluted...

I've found that several light coats, followed by a THICK final coat is the best way to do Niteshade.

 

Drew, u got a pic of them on the Rx8 before/after i bet the tinted ones look way better

 

dDuB - Nice counter tops man. Like the setup with the burners.

 

Haha, thanks.

 

Lol np. my dad Manages a company specializing in Marble counters top and what not. His company has done all kinds of stuff in every room of a house you can think of. Anyways, nice Island ; )

 

Can someone inform me on how to get the s5 tails apart to remove the diffusers? I don't want to break them, but they've been glued together for 17 years. How does everyone else go about getting them apart?

 

I really wanna remove that inner panel on the tails, then tint them black. That would like awesome on my car. Can anybody tell how to do that. I want it to be quite black, i need to know what kinds of polishes to use, and what kinds of paint to use for the tint. PLZ help, i guess ill be doing this on my own.