Custom Scepter Panel

[FLIP K1DD]

three days of sanding, primer, sanding, paint, sand, paint. lettering. i have came up with this. what do you all think?..my friends think it looks good, but my wifey on the other hand thinks i put the letters too close together and that i should have spaced them more out. i finished it off with some turtle wax clear coat stuff. dono if i should get some good clearcoat and spray it. LMK

after i figure out if i like it or not i plan on getting some testors candy apple and hitting up the orange side blinker

[the94camryman]

I like it. IMO it would look better color matched with the car, but that's just me.
But you did a really nice job with it. I've seen some that have been painted and look like garbage.
Good job!

[uibalnme]

Not bad, but I side with your wife. Would have looked better with slightly bigger letters, spaced farther apart.

[sk8ersublime]

I thought about doing something similar to this, i made a thread about it a while ago idk where it is now, but im sure a search would find it. Anyway, i found these letters

http://www.premiumchromes.com/

I was gonna use the CHR06 style

which at the time were $1.95 each

[bigbird]

not being a fan of the whole idea anyways(not that it matters), i think you need to space the letters out. thats how they are on the real scepter pannels. other then that you did a good job.

edit: on a closer look. you should lower the letters a little to center them in the panel and get an even coat of paint/clearcoat on there as well. not trying to be harsh, just trying to help...cept that first sentence...that was a little harsh.

[eyeball96]

I was gonna use the CHR06 style

CHR02 style looks good too!...but yea it looks good, goood effort...but Bird has the best lookin SE center panel, he should post close up pics of it! IMHO.

[bigbird]

...thoes are painted on letters.


i almost want to give that thing back so you can frame it for over the model case. you and the shop did such a perfect job with it. i find myself TRYING to find flaws in the lettering and cant. i wont even use a presurized sprayer on that pannel when i wash it because im afraid ill mess somthing up.

[eyeball96]

^^...Stephen did a damn fine job for 80 bucks....he really did like that car!

[JCamry94]

looks pretty good! DIY is all the best way to do stuff

[prnc_chrmng]

indeed too close together...

[FLIP K1DD]

yeaa im in the garage redoing it now! haha. got my side lamps all red now too should i clearcoat them? i used testors candy apple red...looks pretty glossy right now

[muminiasty]

It is not going to look better with letter spread out it will just give more tacky look.

[bigbird]

AWWW, im sorry...thats was incorrect.
the correct anwser was..."it will look better spread out".
thanks for playing...

[93XLEcamry]

agreed with your wife and the other dudes in here....needs to me more spaced out, but nice job bro..