The evolution of my Rocker Cover.

Tefral

So as a fan of Call of Duty Modern Warfare i quite liked the "Digital Camoflauge" that could be applied to weapons.

I had a mad idea to apply it to my Rocker Cover.

I went to Halfrauds and got 2 cans of Paint, Ford Moon Dust Silver, Rover Amethest Grey, and Matt Black, i went and got 3M Masking Tape.

I downloaded some digital comflauge shapes from the net and using a scalpel i cut the shapes out using the Masking Tape.



My OEM colour was peeling slightly to i got out the Nitromors and applied it to the cover.





This is the result:


So I Masked off the pipe exit for the breather pipe and also for the oil cap, I then sprayed the cover with heatresistant white primer:
A little trick is to put the tins of paint into warm water, this makes the paint nice and sticky coming out of the tin and it dries faster.


I then sprayed the First coat of silver.


I applied the cut out shapes.


Sprayed with the next colour (Note the stickers under the colour)


I then applied the next set of stickers (remember the ones underneath are still on)



I then sprayed the Matt Black final layer


After the paint paint "Dried" i pulled off all the stickers.


I kinda made a balls of the final part, i had to go home back to Dublin and pulled the stickers off too early and didnt leave the Black top coat rest long enough, so the lines arent 100%

Tefral

I then deceided to see if Tallght Powder Coating could do it, but they couldnt so i went with this:



I also got the legs of my Strutt brace done.

Drummerboy08

I actually think the camo idea is a cool one - if you then went over the Honda logo etc with a good thin paintbrush and some bright red/blue paint it would finish it off.

Fair play for thinking outside the box!

metzengerstein

hiya ,i have a spare rocker and am in the proccess thinking what to paint on it ,what did you get the original paint off with ?? just sanding it or something else

mathepac

metzengerstein wrote: »

... what did you get the original paint off with ?? ...

cronin_j wrote: »

... i got out the Nitromors and applied it to the cover.



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OP even supplied pictures ...

Graham_B18C

cronin_j wrote: »

My OEM colour was peeling slightly to i got out the Nitromors and applied it to the cover.

metzengerstein wrote: »

hiya ,i have a spare rocker and am in the proccess thinking what to paint on it ,what did you get the original paint off with ?? just sanding it or something else

Have to say I quite like that Blue cover Cronin, why couldn't Tallaght do it out of curiosity?

EDIT: Mathepac beat me to it...I do have this fancy edit button here though so I could get the kudos...:D

Tefral

Graham_B18C wrote: »

Have to say I quite like that Blue cover Cronin, why couldn't Tallaght do it out of curiosity?

EDIT: Mathepac beat me to it...I do have this fancy edit button here though so I could get the kudos...:D

The masking tape would lift in the oven man.. its not like paint where one is applied and the other..

Wibbs

Cool rocker cover! Love the camo look. Really unique. Nice in blue too mind.

Another trick to mask of areas that are hard to use tape on is good old vaseline. The paint won't stick to it. rub some into the bolt threads too so they don't get painted. Work washing up liquid into a lather after the nitromors too and rinse a lot. Aluminium is a porous metal and nitromors can leach through your new paint if you're unlucky. Trust me I was that soldier on another car.

The OEM Honda paint is so bloody delicate.:mad: I'm lucky with just one tiny chip, but few make it to any mileage without peeling. Its damn near impossible to copy the OEM crinkle finish too.

Armin_Tamzarian

OP, I reckon you did a good job aside from the stickers.
It looked well prepped and the first coat you put on looked tidy.
Unfortunately the sticker bits did look a bit untidy.
You gotta try these things though.
I though the bits done in blue looked well.

Wibbs wrote: »

Another trick to mask of areas that are hard to use tape on is good old vaseline. The paint won't stick to it. rub some into the bolt threads too so they don't get painted.

That's the most useful piece of advice I've heard in a while.
I've always had to clean up the bolts after spraying.
Christs Wibbs, is there anything you don't know?

Tefral

Im gonna try this again with a different cover, i think my brother might have cracked it for me, getting someone with a plotter to make up the stickers for me, they are sure to be straight then.

Wibbs, thats not the first time i heard that, i made sure i washed the metal in a 40 gallon drum out the back... :cool:

Armin_Tamzarian

cronin_j wrote: »

Im gonna try this again with a different cover, i think my brother might have cracked it for me, getting someone with a plotter to make up the stickers for me, they are sure to be straight then

I once tried respraying the dash trim on an FTO I owned.
Made a right balls of it.
If you read up on it the amount of effort it takes to do it properly is unreal.
All in the prep work I guess.

I reckon you'll find it hard to get it exactly the way you want.
Personally I think rocker covers and the like look best with one base colour and then say white for the lettering.

Tefral

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

I once tried respraying the dash trim on an FTO I owned.
Made a right balls of it.
If you read up on it the amount of effort it takes to do it properly is unreal.
All in the prep work I guess.

I reckon you'll find it hard to get it exactly the way you want.
Personally I think rocker covers and the like look best with one base colour and then say white for the lettering.

Dash trim is a right balls, not only you but the previous owners may have used silicone based dash cleaner to clean the dash, that makes it almost impossible no how hard you try to get paint to adhere to it.

Im gonna leave the lettering on my rocker cover metal looking

Armin_Tamzarian

cronin_j wrote: »

Im gonna leave the lettering on my rocker cover metal looking

They look good like that, no point changing them.
DC2?

Tefral

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

They look good like that, no point changing them.
DC2?

Yep

Armin_Tamzarian

Nice...
One of the cleanest examples I've seen.
I usually prefer white rims on them but what's on it works well.
Many mods done to it?

Graham_B18C

Cronin...I aint parking beside you tomorrow!

Wibbs

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

That's the most useful piece of advice I've heard in a while.
I've always had to clean up the bolts after spraying.
Christs Wibbs, is there anything you don't know?

Tracker mortgages.

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

Nice...
One of the cleanest examples I've seen.
I usually prefer white rims on them but what's on it works well.
Many mods done to it?

Yes that's a beauty alright. Sits really nicely. Funny I prefer the black rims. Grey OEM's too?

adamshred

That is one fantastic looking DC2 -You have me intrigued now to have a few parts of my own powdercoated

metzengerstein

mathepac wrote: »

OP even supplied pictures ...

i never heard of nitromors ..anyway i got some and its great stuff the paint just wiped off.. ill post some pics up when im done ,gonna do a bit of art on the spare rocker .. get it on and then start on the other one

Armin_Tamzarian

metzengerstein wrote: »

i never heard of nitromors ..

Don't ever use that stuff in a ventilated room.
You'll never get high that way.

FiSe

metzengerstein wrote: »

i never heard of nitromors ..anyway i got some and its great stuff the paint just wiped off.. ill post some pics up when im done ,gonna do a bit of art on the spare rocker .. get it on and then start on the other one

Get it soda-blasted. Like sandblasting but much, much finer grade of blasting medium. Removes the paint and leaves metal alone.
When using any chemicals for stripping the paint, you do need to wash the part properly with panel wipe and dry it, to make sure that no chemical remains on the part.
It could latter interfere with the paint.

Wibbs

cronin_j wrote: »

Yep

Just looking at your car again. Damn it's in great order. Looks really well. Sits really nicely and I love the grey OEM wheels. Watching the auctions years back I did see a couple of championship very light yellow white R's that appeared to have the grey wheels from new. You even have the wind deflectors. Git.

FiSe wrote:

When using any chemicals for stripping the paint, you do need to wash the part properly with panel wipe and dry it, to make sure that no chemical remains on the part.
It could latter interfere with the paint.

+1 like I said earlier if you don't get rid it will come back to haunt/bubble you. Washing up liquid and water will deactivate it if well brushed in. Ali is a bugger because its so porous. Mild steel it's not so much an issue I've found.

Gary ITR

I have a spare cover myself, I might try something unusual with it, I have an idea in my head and I'll post pics if it works out

metzengerstein

finally got around to finishing my spare roacker ,nothing amazing but im happy with it.




after some nitromours and a bit of sanding
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then the primer



a nice white coat



stencils on


and the unveiling