Spare time, a pair of scissors, and some sticky tape

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:55 am

gorrie wrote:

Lovin the black wheels with the tyre letterin...

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:56 am

Thx... Lettering was on the wheels rather than tyres.. They were Toora's from memory.

Post by **simon** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:40 am

I'm with D, reminds me of an NYC taxi, don't do it!

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 1:19 pm

I like it

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:24 pm

Well... I wheeled it out on to the drive at lunch time, and my execution was not as good as I'd hoped. A fair few bubbles and stuff.... so I've whipped them off for now.

I think I'll maybe do something a bit more discrete, maybe behind the front wheel arch or something. But I'll wait until it's a nice day so I can do it outside and see the mess I'm making as I do it.

The black rubber edging stuff arrived for the diffuser today, so I'll concentrate on arranging the powdercoating of the diffuser for now.

Thanks for the comments anyway... I was quite surprised that the wife was quite liking it.

Andy, /need a better garage light faction/

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:51 pm

2 Glasses of wine... and I got the itch again tonight. Did the following on both flanks and it's staying like that until I get the diffuser done next week.

Looks even more of a taxi now... but at least it is less than doing 2 full stripes up and over the length.

Andy.

renmure · Post by **renmure** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:59 pm

Go get another glass of wine and stick some on the rear flank like JJ's

I would be keen to see how it looked on a yellow elise

Go on... just this once

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:03 pm

I was gonna copy JJ, had the little squares all lined up and everything... but that just shows no imagination. Plus, I thought he might hit me if I turned up to knockhill in an obvious JJ knock-off when he was there

I have taken yourt advise on the wine tho !!

renmure · Post by **renmure** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:14 pm

Without the benefit of wine I took a bit of paper and folded it lots of times then cut little squares out of it then used sticky tape to hold it in place so I could see what it looked like on mine. Lost a bit of the effect since it was white paper and the squares ended up as rectangles and the sticky tape was un-sticky. Decided against taking pics

Trying to see yours was my shortcut to trying again

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:24 pm

I think the Exige rear probably suits it better than the elise if I'm honest... came to that conclusion after laying them out.

I've got some spare vinyl if you want it though Renmure... the wifes guillotine was used tonight for near perfect 2" squares.

jj · Post by jj » Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:27 pm

They are not squares, they are curved diamonds, so they are a bstard to cut and fit. Look good though.....

<BG>

renmure · Post by **renmure** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:33 pm

jj wrote:They are not squares, they are curved diamonds, so they are a bstard to cut and fit. Look good though.....

Hmmm.. Dont think my origami skills are up to that!!

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:31 pm

wonder if I should get some yellow squares....

r055 · Post by **r055** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:11 pm

GregR wrote:wonder if I should get some yellow squares....

They're not Squares!!!

loving your work gorrie - you're a patient guy!