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Old Apr 24, 2010 | 01:58 PM
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Need help with smoking amber corners

What's up everybody. After seeing pictures of people who had blacked out amber corners, I decide to do mine. I bought VHT Nite Shades and Dupli-Color Acrylic Enamel clear coat. I applied a couple coats of Nite Shades (turned out really good) then a couple coats of clear. When I applied the clear coat, it turned the whole amber corner white. Did I do something wrong? Also, people say I should have sanded them down. I bought some new corners and want to start over again. Anyone have any tips or DIY's on how to do it correctly? Thanks
 
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Old May 23, 2010 | 11:27 PM
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hey . let me know how this turned out. i wanna do the samething. but learn from ur mistakes lol
 
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Old May 25, 2010 | 02:28 PM
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just do transparent black sprays from testors. no sanding required, no clear coat required.
VHT sucks..
 
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Old May 25, 2010 | 02:33 PM
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"Need help with smoking amber corners"
Don't smoke them myself, ....they're too hard to light.



I agree with ^ use testors.
 
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Old May 25, 2010 | 08:45 PM
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so transparent black spray from testors. where can i get this stuff. how many coats??? im sucha noob!
 
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Old May 27, 2010 | 12:01 AM
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I actually finished my corner lights a few weeks ago. They turned out really well. I did a few coats of VHT NiteShades and a few coats of clear coat. I actually got tired of the blacked out corners, so now I'm running bump clear corners.

Blacked out corners:


Bump Clear Corners:

 
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Old Jun 17, 2010 | 01:18 PM
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^ Dude those blacked out ones look NASTY, you should keep em on.
 
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Old Jun 17, 2010 | 03:01 PM
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^^cant even see it lol
 
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Old Jun 18, 2010 | 01:00 AM
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Originally Posted by walshtj
^ Dude those blacked out ones look NASTY, you should keep em on.
Haha yeah. I put the blacked out corners back on today. Also did my taillights with Bluebatmobile's GT-R style overlays.
 
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Old Jul 3, 2010 | 04:22 PM
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how did you end up getting them the way you want and not having them come out white like before?
 
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