Painted a dragon on my spoiler, what do you all think? :D

Dark_Rider2k3 · Post by **Dark_Rider2k3** » July 4th, 2007, 3:12 am

wet sanded the originally white spoiler, spraypainted the black, used painter's tape, and then spraypainted the greenish blue color. Took off the tape to clear coat and BAM, came out with this..

I don't think it looks too bad, even though I painted it backwards LOL..

but hey, it's great for my first time ever painting something like that!!

Here's another pic:

also got a new racing wheel, check it out:

Bling Bling · Post by **Bling Bling** » July 4th, 2007, 7:25 am

Looks alright...but you bought the same steerign wheel as me. What is the name of it? As the guy I bought it from couldn't remember.

Dark_Rider2k3 · Post by **Dark_Rider2k3** » July 4th, 2007, 10:16 am

Bling Bling wrote:Looks alright...but you bought the same steerign wheel as me. What is the name of it? As the guy I bought it from couldn't remember.

I bought it from Atomic Street (off Ebay)

If I'm correct, he labeled it as "Mazda Speed steering wheel."

It looks great, though I have a hard time seeing the gauges now T_T.

Oh well though, I'm not gonna take it off

n2ogsze · Post by **n2ogsze** » July 4th, 2007, 11:26 pm

It looks like you spilled paint on your spoiler.

magiccowinuse · Post by **magiccowinuse** » July 4th, 2007, 11:28 pm

n2ogsze wrote:It looks like you spilled paint on your spoiler.

HAHA kinda does

Cy · Post by Cy » July 5th, 2007, 2:33 am

although the graphic probably looks good...i think it was ment to be stretched less....if it was another inch or 2 taller it'd be more recognizable

ElectricEnergy · Post by **ElectricEnergy** » July 6th, 2007, 1:46 am

When I saw the title of this thread I imagined a kid with his pants around his knees spray painting a yellow dragon onto their car and I was going to b---- you out for it. But that actually doesn't look too bad. Good job.

Dark_Rider2k3 · Post by **Dark_Rider2k3** » July 6th, 2007, 3:21 am

thank you everyone for the nice replies...

this was my 1st attempt at spraypainting, though I did have my dad help in some places.

although the graphic probably looks good...i think it was ment to be stretched less....if it was another inch or 2 taller it'd be more recognizable

It looks okay, though here was the original graphic:

I did a lot of stretching to the original graphic, so maybe I should have done it slightly less. If I was driving, it'd be hard to figure out what it was, but if you were to walk up to my car and see it, you'd recognize it.

The best parts on it were the mid section and tail.. when I had painted the dragon in the beginning, the dragon's head did not come out as well (the coats I applied were not even and messed up), but my dad managed to save it and fix it, so it came out better.

He also helped me give the dragon a "scaly" feel... when you look at it, the paint looks scaly, and the dragon looks very defined.