P-Man made me do it

P-man inspired me to this one. Actually bought the kit for the BBS Crosspoke wheels but after having seen P-Man lower his I thought Yeh why not ! So I cut out the wheel wells raised the springs and :bricks1: it was lowered, I attached some Ninja Hoppin Hydros and here we are. It didnt stop there, out came the razor saw and off came the front bumper/spoiler and on went a Sylvia front end I had spare, to that was added a chin splitter and replacement grills. I added a hood scoop from a Dodge daytona (I think) door mirrors from a 1980's ford police car kit with wire supports, scrat built twin exhaust and smoothed off the boot lid to accept a custom twin level spoiler made from an old Supra one with a 6 series BMW spoiler piggy backing. BUT on painting with nail varnish which was supposed to be purple/blue over a light gunmetal base coat it actually came out the blue you see, problem was the topcoat showed a slight sink mark in the middle of the rear spoiler, so I filled, sanded and resprayed, but the paint mix must have been slightly different as it came out the colour I originally wanted ie purple/blue. This meant the spoiler wasnt usable as it is a different colour, thats why you dont see it attached to the car. I may alclad 2 chrome it later so as to complete the 'bling bling' theme. Hope the pics come out, ive tried to make them smaller but if not I will post as individual attachements.
PS sorry to be so verbal :bigthumb:

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please make smaller pics.. they will be in better quality (less compression)

look great :bigthumb:

:banghead:

Ok so I post 4 pics all in the same way I get one link two pics and a red x, whats goin on????

:wtf:

THe pics are so BIG!!!

Please resize them.

Good job.

Vric / anyone whats the best size and resolution to use? The pics seem to have a mind of their own sometimes.

outstanding job!!!:bigthumb: :bigthumb:

Any better?

Nice work, and I love the number plate even with the correct typeface.

I resize my pics to 600 pixels wide x 425ish pixels high with 40% compression using photoshop which should give you a file size of about 40kb. It looks like you use too much compression on the last pic posted.

That's wicked Neil, i luv it!

Bling Bling.:tongue: Great job.:bigthumb: :bigthumb:

Super-cool!!:sunglasse :sunglasse :sunglasse

Big pictures look great, you can see all the details and it shows Verminator is not afraid of showing flaws, if any. Very nice Benz, good color, I really like it. It's a clean custom, not too outrageous, looks like something you might see on the Autobahn. My only question is- how does the hood open? There's not leading edge hood line. Other than that, perfect!
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Bigg "E"

everything on this car is totally awsome but can i point one little thing out....i hate to do it because im not perfect but.....this decal makes the car look so not real because it goes with the curve of the trunk....sorry...but :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

in fact lets get rid of it all together......:tongue: :tongue:

Originally posted by Hiroboy
Nice work, and I love the number plate even with the correct typeface.

I resize my pics to 600 pixels wide x 425ish pixels high with 40% compression using photoshop which should give you a file size of about 40kb. It looks like you use too much compression on the last pic posted.

no ! a compression of 15 or 20% will do the job

Good job.
I don't like the rim though.

What!?! I think the paint and the rims are what make this car so sweet!

Thanks for the comments, quite pleased with this one even though it was a throw away just to use up the kit, btw it does look better without the boot badge which has now gone. :biggrin:

Originally posted by Verminator
Thanks for the comments, quite pleased with this one even though it was a throw away just to use up the kit, btw it does look better without the boot badge which has now gone. :biggrin:

i agree, that was a good suggestion on what is otherwise a real nice looking build you have there, love your touches man!! silvia front end!!:biggrin2:

:iagree: Looks very nice, I think I have seen that one driving down here by Miami Beach.:sunglasse

Originally posted by Vric


no ! a compression of 15 or 20% will do the job

15 to 20% compression will result in too obvious discolorations on the darkest and lightest parts of the picture. 40% is good because the details will come out fine, without such discoloration.

As for the Mercedes....

Awesome job man! :bigthumb: Better without that decal!

Awesome SLK!

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Very nice indeed, but yeah keep the pictures smaller :bigthumb:

Originally posted by tonioseven
Super-cool!!:sunglasse :sunglasse :sunglasse

Ditto

are there any scale bags of cocaine in the back, a couple of kilos should set this off nicely!!!!!!!

that is a damn sweet ride, slowly gonna turn my real 1:1 lexus into that kinda style when i got the time!! might buy me a is200 model to practice on b4 i buy the 19" rims!

Sweet man....like it.

Someone say bling bling !!