I felt ambitious today, so I went and picked up some 1605 Testors translucent Candy apple red paint and painted the amber parts on my lights. They took a good 4-5 coats until they looked dark enough. I think this was an awesome little appearance mod, I gotta touch up a few spots but other than that it came out great. Here's some pics









:lala:

 

And here's a before pic just for fun, uggglyyy

 

was the lense hard to remove? how did you remove the lense?

 

great little mod, i bet many people wont notice it ,you know what i dont think id even notice it , but it does look better when you show the b4 and after pic. In the first pic though where you painted it, it looks a little dull. Is it possible to polish it up just a little bit so it matches all of them . But it looks really good, what about doing all of them red, has anyone done that?

 

I'm going to try and polish the painted part, since the rest of my taillight is polished (as you can tell). I did it with my other painted parts, so I dont see why I cant to these tialights. I'm just waiting for the paint to harden up before I try it.

91RSowner- I didnt remove the lense, I just removed the whole taillight from the car and masked it off.

 

TunedPort is the F'n man. Coming back strong after that hatch glass incident. :hail:

 

BB guns can't stop me!!

 

doesn't look bad at all....

 

looks great...id do that or tint that part black instead

ur car really has become one of my favorites of the board, keep up the good work

 

thats looks awsome, i think thats another add on to my list

 

I'm not keen on the red. I like the orange, alhough I do wish it was a little darker, not so bright and cheezy.

Does Testors make a dark orange?

 

Looks awesome!

 

paint the reverse lights like this....that would be cool too.

 

Nice :hail:

 

hey! a topic without a pic of nolans car! lol just messing with ya man! i love your car

 

niiiiiiiice.

i would have done the same.

looks perfect!

 

Awesome dude....keeps getting better and better!

 

is that a zr1 sharing the garage?:hail:

 

I wish

Its my fathers, 94 LT1 with the Z07 suspension package, 1 of 887 that year.

 

What he said. Looks good, but I'd rather have the orange. I love your paint though, looks clean.

 

i see... those badges he put on there threw me off, nice cars either way

 

The taillights look great. I never really thought of the orange in the grid lights as being ugly-- until I see them in red. Good job.

 

hey billsfirebird that was cool what you did with his pic what about have the red on top and red on bottom and clear in the middle? just an idea.

 

That looks awesome! I think that's a must-do mod for 3rd gen camaros. I'll have to see your car in person when i'm up in your area sometime

 

The only thing about that is you can't really polish them all shiny now can you? You can't really polish the paint right?
Perhaps if you could paint the inside some how, 'cause I really really dig the super polished lenses (ala the sticky)

 

Once the paint completely hardens I'm going to wetsand and polish it. Theres no reason it can't be done. After all, it is only paint

 

Where did you get the "Testors" from? Autozone or something. . ?

 

Just my local hobby store called Hobby Time. Anyplace that carries alot of stuff for model cars should have it.

 

You got that BB gun dent fixed quick! Did you have to get it painted?

 

Whole back half of the car repainted.

 

Thanks brother. I'll stop by today and pick some of that stuff up.

 

nice job tunedport! I think it looks 10x times better! But hey whats wrong with the orginal len?! I have em on my car, whatt ya saying my car is ugly? Lol im just playing

 

How about pictures of the car with the lights on......blinkers and backups.

kthnx

 

Ive really wanted to change the orange to clear... but that would be alot more difficult and messy. Can you get some pics of them lit up.. i assume it will be a little difficult to catch but thats whats kinda teetering me on the mod. Maybee I'll hit it up next weekend!

 

I'll get some pix after work today

 

OOO that would look good

 

Yup, I did one of my taillight sets just like the pic billsfirebird posted expect I left the top reverse light clear instead of the bottom. I also blocked off the two bottom squares from the inside so they dont light up when I put it in reverse (only that single top clear square). I'm gonna put em on my 91 as soon as I get my rear bumper re-painted, I'll be sure to post some pics.

 

ask and ye shall receive.

If I had a camaro I'd do the same thing. Ive never really liked the orange turn signal look. If my bro still had his camaro I'd make him do it.

 

:hail:
now thats is cool!!!

 

That is SWEET!!! I must do it, well, post pics of your's polished and if they turn out nice I'm gonna do it
Anyone have the painted lights with pics of them polished to a very shiny shine? (if it's really possible hehe)

 

I like it.

 

It's possible. I just polished my painted parts, I didnt' even have to wetsand them. I just used Meguiars Deep Crystal polish on a rag and then wiped them off. It got rid of that flat hazy look and brought in some shine.

Although I dont have the camera with me

 

I do beleive each lense can come off? it looks like there is clips or something that hold each lense on, I've never tried so I might be wrong. but if you had a set of euro taillights, (with the red and orange switched) you could take off the red turn signal part and put it on the US config taillights. Just a thought

 

where are the pictures of the the painted lights lit up?

 

I suppose it's illegal to go without white backup lights, but i wonder if any cops would notice if the whole thing was red.

Looks good IMO

 

all red would be a bad idea, you kinda need the white to let people know your backing up, but leaving one white looks good

 

very nice tunedport, looks badass!
now just put some rims on there, and that will be one of the best cars on here

 

looks good. If I was to do it I'd paint the parts that were already red, too, tho. That way it would all match. Looks better than the orange tho. Oh, and I'd paint 2/3 of the back-up part of the lens, too- that'd be sweet.

 

Have you polished the lenses yet? I painted my amber last ight but it looked like crap so out came the scotchbrite. I think I need a darker red first off but the pattern didn't show through at all. It just made it look cheap.

 

im probly the only one here... but i like my amber lights. i think the whole tri-colored light assembly looks good.

one of my fav parts of the car.