1st coat of red applied.
Oh, and the red paint is about as perfect a match as I can get to the dyed lock rings. I'm glad too because I was hoping to not have to paint the lock rings ๐
Well I tried to dye the two body mounts to see if the white plastic would take dye. I almost ruined the first one I tried. It started to warp, and the dye wasn't even that hot. Had I left it in another 10 seconds, I am betting I would be buying a new body.
But I think the body and mounting...
I also tried dying the front lip, because the white kinda shows behind the beadlock rings. But that was kinda scary, and it was bleeding into the rim. So I just took a Sharpie to the lip. I think this looks much better now.
This is what the front looked like before the Sharpie did its thing...
I didn't like the back of the wheels showing all that white, so I am dying the back side black. I used an eyedropper to fill the pockets in the back, then after a few minutes I held the wheel in the pan of scalding hot dye to do the lip. Redoing the pockets to darken them a bit more.
Got the beadlock rings dyed with Rit scarlet red, but they look a little more pale maroon, kinda like red primer. At least if I paint them with the red body color, if they get scuffed, it won't be seen as easily. Heck, I may try to color match the paint to this color. I kinda dig it. I may even...
The wheels have 6 holes for the bolts, but the caps only have 2. I'll be drilling these out and adding 4 more bolts. Looks weird like this. Either that, or I'll dye the caps black ๐
I'm going to take my time with this one. Breydon won't be back for a couple weeks.
@Hammer Down - you figure out what the hell this is for? It doesn't fit the wheel lugs, or anything else for that matter.
Oh, and these wheels come with a separate beadlock ring. It has to be glued on, but this...
Ok guys. I have seen cute puppies, cute kitty cats, and cute babies. But this is the cutest durn thing I've ever seen!
Undecided if I should go with white wheels, or black.
The top of the truck will be white. The bottom will be red. Like this.
Going to try to do black chrome trim, grille...