hey guys i just sent an email to Nu Image, which is a company that makes custom glo flame gauges for custom trucks. here is what i wrote in my letter
If you guys want to help me rally these guys up to make them, go to www.nuimage1.com and click on the button that says "not listed?" on the left side of the page. these things look freakin cool!

 

no one else wants a set??? come on now. well off to photoshop, the might not glow.......but what are ya gonna do?

 

I listed my info on their site, i'd be interest in the gauges.

 

hell yeah! i want some of those gauge faces! let me know what happens...

 

same here, they would have to be a reasonable price....

 

I think it would be cool to have the flames on black background ones... especially if they are easy to install and light up like it looks on the site!! :hail:

 

I e-mailed Nu-Image about that same thing a few months ago and they told me they would custom make the flamin gauges for my car for around $350. I am very interested in getting them for my Z too.

 

dave.......doesnt your car have enough flames already? :sillylol:

j/k

 

lemme bust out my imaginary checkbook.........

 

You would be surprised how many people say that to me
Actually the interior does not have any flames on it....YET

 

dave, i love your car.........if i had the $$ thats what mine would look like

 

well, i haven't heard anything yet, anyone else?

 

Man... I've wanted to do that for months. I'm not real handy in photoshop but I've been trying the last 2-3 days, I just can never get anything to come out good at all. I've been trying to do blue flames on white face gauges. I have a blue flame .bmp file and all Mikey's templates. I'm just a total nOOb to photoshop and nobodys ever showed me anything... I'm just trying to figure it out as I go.

I flipped this to vertical... and have been trying to layer it over the templates but haven't had much luck. Anyone else up to giving it a shot?

 

Heres my first attempt.... I'm no chop wizard, this is my first attempt at getting the look I want. Its kinda freaky/ugly but hey, it gives you the idea.

 

Here's the flames I'm working with

 

i'll see if i can do something with it, i'm stuck photoshopless right now, but i have photostudio so i'll see what i can do

 

Cool man. Hey at least I'm TRYING instead of just dreaming like I used to. I miss PSP though... that was a lot easier to use though its not quite as advanced. I need to find a new copy. (BTW don't post a link to it they don't like it when you post links or promote pirating software on the board so don't anybody do it, they'll probably lock the thread)

 

i did a lil somethin on the firebird template

 

sorry it's kinda weak just figured i'd make a quick one and show you how it's done good luck (PS if u want something done like that for your car and you can't do it PM me)

 

Thats a hellava lot better looking than anything I made! I'm still not 100% sure of the look i want but thats pretty close. I'm gonna see if i can find some other flame patterns to play around with too. Its a good project for times when you don't have a whole lot to do.

 

keep me updated on your progress. btw mikey doesn't have my gauge face!

 

Man... this photoshop stuff takes forever to figure out, and this is pretty basic stuff! I did this one tonight... its by far the best I've come up with so far. Its kinda funny how it happened.... A freind of mine brought over a CD by the band Slick Shoes... and the CD had these cool blue flames on it. I was like Dude! Thats exactly what I need! So, no joke, I threw the CD upside down on the scanner, scanned it, and spent about an hour messing around with stuff. I ended up creating a new layer, doing the rubber stamp thing, and messing with the transparancey and lighting to get this cool glowing ghost flame. This is definately the coolest chop i've ever done! (Which proves how little I've ever successfully done)

I cleaned up the picture a bit, and edited out the metric speed #s too since I don't need them. Its cleaner without them. This is a small version obviously. I might toss in one or 2 little pictures in there for flair... I dunno yet. Making a matching tach should be fun.

 

Man... this photoshop stuff takes forever to figure out, and this is pretty basic stuff! I did this one tonight... its by far the best I've come up with so far. Its kinda funny how it happened.... A freind of mine brought over a CD by the band Slick Shoes... and the CD had these cool blue flames on it. I was like Dude! Thats exactly what I need! So, no joke, I threw the CD upside down on the scanner, scanned it, and spent about an hour messing around with stuff. I ended up creating a new layer, doing the rubber stamp thing, and messing with the transparancey and lighting to get this cool glowing ghost flame. This is definately the coolest chop i've ever done! (Which proves how little I've ever successfully done)

I cleaned up the picture a bit, and edited out the metric speed #s too since I don't need them. Its cleaner without them. This is a small version obviously. I might toss in one or 2 little pictures in there for flair... I dunno yet. Making a matching tach should be fun. This is gonna look KILLER if I replace all my bulbs with blue LEDS like in that new tech article!

 

Oops... I just noticed things I need to fix

1. It still says KM/H when theres no metric number
2. Except for the 180, thats gotta go
3. its still grey in the centers of some of the numbers.

Details details. I'll do it tomorrow, my eyes can't take much more of this!

 

cool, i like it. might want to shapren all the flames up when you enlarge it.

 

http://www3.sympatico.ca/rickdupuis/SUNSET/Gauges/how_to_create_custom_gauges.htm



Check it.

 

Thanks. Actaully, the original is a lot clearer, I just put the .jpg compression to like 3 instead of 11 like the original so the file size would be smaller.

 

i'm all for some flame gauges

 

Just n case anyone hasn't drifted that way yet, I started a new thread in app + detail about this... I posted the tach I just made in there was well as a cleaned up speedo. I'm probably just gonna use plain white on the smaller ones.