Yeah, you can use the paint used for smoking the lenses too on the chrome as well as the emblems. It's good if you want to do your own DIY black pearl emblem kit.

 

+rep for both of you! Yoos guys are savin me CASH!!! i love you

 

hey lilboi. i used the duplicolor metalcast on my headlights and tailights. they give a little darker color than the sportdesign tailights. i think it looks pretty nice. ill take some pics if u guys want...

Edit: Pics

Enjoy?

 

hey lilboi. i used the duplicolor metalcast on my headlights and tailights. they give a little darker color than the sportdesign tailights. i think it looks pretty nice. ill take some pics if u guys want...

pictures please?

 

will do.. ill take some tomorrow at work...

 

**Patiently Waiting**

 

That stuff sounds pretty neat, I wonder how well it would hold up against the elements if used on the lense of the headlights or fogs.

 

why would you want to do that? it would defeat the purpose of the headlights and foglights...

 

bump. updated with pictures.

 

^ No, Duplicolor makes a smoke color for their Metalcast series. It's pretty much a tint type of paint for their smoke color. I played with the smoke color Metacast spray on some beat up Toyota badges, almost gave it that black pearl look, but yeah could of been darker.

 

oh, i see it now. it says its new? i guess they dont carry the color i used anymore.

 

kayotik! I like it! +rep for the motivation!

 

great! i will be changing it up a little tho! black chrome

 

where's the how to on cracking those puppies open before the paint? The painting part is easy, picking the colors and stuff. The hard part is getting in those babies. I did my headlights long ago. Easy. Tails, difficult, until I see somebody say otherwise.

 

http://my.is/forums/f90/taillight-tutorial-pics-202095/

I would give it a 4/10 in terms of difficulty because the dremel is hard to control at first, but after i got used to it.. it was cake. My first tailight took about 2 hours (very cautiously) and the 2nd one took about 30 min to rip open (with experience).

 

Yea I think the Stuff that Kayotik is not the same as the metal cast. The metal cast seems to make chrome just a little bit darker. Your seems to be the gun metal spray paint that you use on rims. Correct me if i'm wrong. I'll be trying this when i do my retro. (i'm a huge retrofitter).

 

umm.. its the same metalcast. do you need a picture for proof or something? ahha

 

no, it's okay. I just thought that the metal case would show more chrome then it shows in the picture. For some reason i expected similar to Sport Design where the chrome is nice and shiney. But it looks good either way. How many coats did you put on? several thin coats, or just a couple thick coats.

 

i dont know about the new "smoke" version, but when i did mine about 2 years ago, i expected more of a "black chrome" look to the headlights. In the beginning, it did have a lot of reflectiveness due to the "flakes", but over time, it wore out and you get the color you see now. If you are looking for a transparent paint, this is not the item that you are looking for.

And to answer your question, I applied several thin coats and then a final thick coat.

 

+rep to kayotik for posting pics

 

can you bake the tail lights to get it open or do you have to use the dremel trick that is on another thread?

 

dremel them open,
i personally thinks its hard

just takes time and patience.....
search for the thread

 

yeah, dremel only.

no need for search, i posted the thread above.

 

i tried the same a few months ago
Smoking chrome

good stuff
I <3 dupli-color

 

smoked out lights look sick...but i think i might tint mine haha