Styling New dials - DIY STYLE!!!

[Cinq_Sport_BiG_DaVE]

Found an out line of cinq sporting dials last nite
so this is whats goin on

1. edit dials using photoshop

2. print on thick yellow card

3. remove orig dials

4. cut news 1 shape

5. put in and screw all back 2geth

i have attached my dials edited and unedited for you to create ure own!

what you think?

bit ott?

 

[joecinq]

They will look good in the day, but how will they work at night?

 

[Cinq_Sport_BiG_DaVE]

card will be thick enough to hold its self up, but not to opaque!

 

[The younger modder]

card will be thick enough to hold its self up, but not to opaque!

nice theory dont image the practice would be as good though id imagine it is worth the trouble to use ohp film

 

[mase]

wat u need to do is use foto quality paper, print so on the gloss side.

then either tint the bulbs behind the dials, or buy new coloured bulbs of the colour u want the dials to glow.

when gluing the dials down try not to get glue on the face where u will b able to c it once in the dash, cause where the glue is it glows a funny colour.

oh yea and dont expect them to b all the same shade at night, u will get shadows from the dial bits makin them different shades!

 

[mase]

p.s there is a full size scan of the white dials i used in my gallery if anyone wants to have a go themselves, open it up, save it, print it out an u got your own white dials to have a play around with!

 

[munk]

Use a pin and pin prick the bits you want light to shine thru... work when oing it for my smart!

 

[cinquecento_sunderland]

how do you get the dials to the right actual size of computer

 

[joecinq]

Trial and error would be how i would do it... But on some image programs you can resize the images in cm's/inches and print it off like that.

 

[cinquecento_sunderland]

cheers

 

[arseofbox]

Trial and error it...

<says the man of 10 attempts>

It can and will be done...just play with it!

 

[smurfhead]

what ya going to do about the gaps for the trip and odometer?

 

[arseofbox]

I cut mine out using a razor blade and a piece of cardboard.

Scissors wont do it accurately enough

 

[mase]

there is of course an easy way of gettin them the full size...

take the old faces off, scan them into your comp, invert the colour in paintshop or sumthin similar, an print them back off, they should still b the same size as the ones u scanned in!

well at least that is how i did it!

i actually still have the scan of the white dials i used in mine!