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PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:12 pm    Post subject: Photoshop help with turtlebacks. Reply with quote

Anyone out there that's good with photoshop willing to play a little?

I'm in the process of getting some turtlebacks ready to put on my square. I'm going back and forth between full polish and a carbon fiber look.

What I'd like to see is the below pic shop'ed up two ways. First with CF on the majority of the wheel and the lips still polished and second with CF on the majority of the wheel and a satin or matte black on the lips.

Appreciate it in advance if someone mocks them up.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i guessing theres been no signifigant progress on getting that costing smoothed down?

carbonfiber sounds a little unusual. is the a spray that mocks that? i think a dark silver/gray metallic detailed still sounds nice.

i don't know much about p'shop but am betting a straight on pic would be much easier to work with.


these things are going down in the history books as great fighters hahaha...ken....
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah if I did a CF look it would be painted, pretty easy to get that look with paint.

I actually have made some progress. I had some heavy emery cloth laying around that I tried yesterday and it's the first thing that has stood up to that "hardest casting on the planet".

My fingers were still bleeding but it did make a dent. I'll be back on it tonight to keep working... so come on over and we'll get rid of your fingerprints too. Razz
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

his is a cool square with turtles
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I take it back. Came down to the shop and started on the next wheel and it seems even HARDER Evil or Very Mad

F'it I'm painting them. I want to put them on the car not spend the rest of my life sanding the things. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2011 2:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you still want to see what it would look like I can do it for you. I do custom selecta rims for people's cars: http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=450514&highlight=selecta

Just send me a pm with what you want, and selecta image of your car.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you seen this process for the likes of a carbon fibre finish:

http://www.fluidcoatings.co.nz/

Probably a similar outfit near you??
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 12:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I take it back. Came down to the shop and started on the next wheel and it seems even HARDER Evil or Very Mad

F'it I'm painting them. I want to put them on the car not spend the rest of my life sanding the things. Rolling Eyes
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Pretty short sighted to paint them, when a Chrome Shop will polish them out for you on their buffing wheel.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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i spent a day last weekend helping dan and can tell you these won't just polish out that easy. the faces have some ROUGH casting in some areas that is proving damned near impossible to get smooth. trust me we tried LOTS of methods. i've polished out several sets of wheels. never seen any even close to this difficult. i'm thinking they may have been late castings and the molds were getting a little shitty by that time. 40 grit sand paper only glazed the casting if that tells you anything.

dan certainly isn't taking the "i give up easy" route. any other wheels would have been polished last week. i took one of my Performance Industries wheels that i need to redo over when i went just to see how the same medias we were trying on the turtle compared and it was night and day difference...ken....
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try the 3M flapper strips on your drill. More Power! Idea
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Have you seen this process for the likes of a carbon fibre finish:

http://www.fluidcoatings.co.nz/

Probably a similar outfit near you??


Yep, found a guy about 40 min from me that's gonna do it.

As for being short sighted or giving up easy.... no one except Ken has ANY idea what kind of work I have in them. I have tried finishing wheels on a die grinder, hand sanding down to 60 grit, grinders grease down to 80 grit, some rubber abrasive "thing" a body shop said was aggressive, media blasting down to a 20-40 grit media, flapper wheels, wire wheels, emery cloth, and 80 grit sanding wheels on the die grinder. As stated above the emery cloth did "something" but not enough. The 80 grit wheels on the die grinder actually made short work of what they could reach but then I discovered another (and the real to me) issue. There are spots on the wheel that I took off at least 1/32 of material and the "gas" holes from the casting process are still present. Like Ken mentioned I think these were a late set or at the very least a Friday afternoon set. Smile I'm not saying it can't be done, all I'm saying is I don't want this set polished.

I had a couple offers to ship them out and have them polished, and at this point I'm kinda glad I didn't for that reason. I do appreciate the offers though.

So in the end I won't have full polished turtlebacks but I like CF and the water transfer printing process looks pretty good and the cleat coat applied after the "dipping" will protect them.

It's just a change of plans from polished to CR with polished lips. IMO (and that's what counts to me) they will still look bad ass.

BTW Ken... I'm done on my end with these so let me know when you want to clean yours up and bring them on over.

Here's where they are at the moment before CF "dipping"....

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

those pics make me a little sad they won't polish on out. fuck they look good. is the guy gonna do one wheel so you can see it before you go through getting all of them done with the CF?

i'll holler at you in the next day or so. the past week was crazy. finally getting some breathing time. i deff wanna get the PI's at least on their way to being done.

i bought an Apollo HVLP Turbine set up today off ebay. so should have that to play with in the next week or so.

oh and i determined i no longer like ANY of the paint supply places in hickory. i miss the old dude at Finishmaster...ken....
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If he wanted to get them polished then he would of had them done but he's firm on getting them done in carbon fiber with polished lips/edges cuz that in my opinion would be really nice also. I'm pretty sure ANY wheel polisher can do the job. I've polished every set I've owned and my polisher NEVER EVER had a problem. Post them pic's when they are all done up in C/F Cool
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

heres a quick photoshop fwiw

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 6:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks man. That at least gives me an idea of what they will look like.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That look's cool to me Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

usually not a big fan of carbon fiber look. was a little affraid it might make it a little ricerish. but i actually kinda like that. probably look good if going semi german lookish with the car. different...ken....
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 12:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Carbon - FAUX - ber is for posers and ricers.

Please, under NO circumstances, apply ANY fake carbon fiber on your car. It's ugly and stupid on ANYTHING and EVERYTHING
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mitey62 wrote:
Carbon - FAUX - ber is for posers and ricers.

Please, under NO circumstances, apply ANY fake carbon fiber on your car. It's ugly and stupid on ANYTHING and EVERYTHING


Thanks for your opinion but I didn't ask for it so you can put it back where it came from. Also don't care that you don't like it. It's not your car and not your money.

Guess I'll have to get a new plate with "CF-POSER" on it. Question
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

whats really funny is that comments coming from someone with a ratrodariffic black/red wheels/wide whitewalls bug for his avatar. i bet he's got a rockasillyriffic pompador to. and wants to throw out the term poser haha. thats classic....ken...
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