Making the grille pony appear "black chrome" ?
 

I really want to do this to my pony, I found some black chrome airbrush type paint but it's ridiculously priced @ $80 for 1/2 pint..so I started to think about spray tint.

I haven't used spray tint before but do you think a few shades of it on the emblem would blacken it? Or would it make look brown or something. I might test this out on my stock grille pony..

Don't you have some stamps to go buy.

Maybe.

Anyone have any serious input?

I want this look..lol
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I don't know about airbrushing it to be like that. From what I've heard and read, that's one of the 45th anniversary pony's. Should be able to buy them online about now...

Yeah the 010 mustangs will have black chrome emblems, but I don't think you'll be able to buy those until the cars are actually being sold. Plus, I want to have this done before those are around...so I can be semi unique for atleast a few months. haha

i would think that the tinting would work, i have ehard many people use VHT niteshade.
plus is you dont like it you can jsut take it off with some paint thinner or something.

Well absolutely no place around here sells VHT niteshades or any spray tint. Should I go ahead and order some?

anymore input?

swervos is black and blue pm him and see what he did maybe you will get an answer in a week or so when he logs on.

He got it custom airbrushed by Autobadges IIRC.

i say just go for it, keep us updated i might want to do this if it works.

I just ordered some VHT, they shipped it out 10 minutes after I ordered it..damn. lol


Once this project is complete I'm going to dying the interior black..hehe

were going to need some pics!!!!!

I'm sure you could just had an airbrush company do it for you. Those little t-shirt airbrushers at the mall could probably even hook you up.

T shirt airbrushers in the mall..what kind of hippy mall do you have? lol

If the spray tint doesn't work I'll look around, but I haven't seen a black-chrome appearance from airbrush before.

I would just get a small can of model paint in gloss black, stay about a foot away and apply a couple of really light coats. I see no reason why that wouldn't work..

why would you need 1/2 pint? that is a fuggin WASTE...

look around you can probably find a 1 or 2oz bottle for a helluvalot less.

this might do it for ya

http://www.tcpglobal.com/hokpaint/It...=HOK%20BC03-2Z

or..

http://www.eastwoodco.com/shopping/p...chrome%2Cpaint

yer not gonna really find anything that will be just like black chrome though, except for getting it dipped in black chrome.

What the hell is galaxy gray? Lol

They have paint that looks just like chrome, but it's fucking expensive
http://alsacorp.com/products/mirrach...irra_price.htm
http://www.innate.com/Paint/Chrome/HyperBlack.htm

Remember, I don't want it to look gray or black, or metallic...going for something like this
http://www.made-in-china.com/image/4...-Wheel-Rim.jpg

I guess it's like a super-reflective gray with a black pearl look to it..ahah

Little update, got the VHT in today, just 1 test coat on my stock grille..it looks BADASS. Though upclose you can see dark little specks from the spray, but it's only the first coat and I plan to clearcoat it afterwards wet sand it a tad. I'll post pics as I progress

Sweet!
I can'tt wait to see the finished product.

Arrg! Well as I thought, it's hard to keep it looking bright when keeping the coat even. I did the pony off my mach grille and it's all evenly covered and looks well done, but it's dark. Still not black but more like a charcoal gray. Looks alot better than just a black pony, though. The stock one looks more black-chromish but the coat isn't consistent so you can see specks. Gonna clearcoat the mach one tomorrow and see if that brightens it up a tad, then I'll post pics. Might end up rubbing some thinner on it and doing it again. hehe.

In any case, Dark or light it looks pretty good to me, since I have all of this black shit on my car. I'm going to do it to the silver parts of my fender emblems as well.

My brother has the camera at his apartment :(

queer!

Fuck you steeda, your wheels SUCK. lol

Got some pics

Top (darker)
Bottom (more chromish, but less consistent and speckled)
Note that the top pony does not have any clearcoat yet, the bottom has 2 coats.
EDIT: got my parent's camera and got some better pics, one of them is in the sun, one shade, and one with the flash.
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Thoughts?

EDIT now that you got the better camera I like the bottom one better

IMO not good enough pics to 100% decide. But from what I could tell, the top horse in your first pic looked good. The other one (top horse second pic) looks too dark.

The horses are the same in every pic, just the lighting conditions are different. ;)

bottom one looks better, top one is too dark.

I feel like an idiot now, but knowing that I'm with SeanStang.

Alright bottom one it is.

I'm going to order another pony and spray that one lightly, so I can have a dark and light one to compare..final products.