Time for a change.
I had been thinking for a while about painting the centres of my wheels but it has taken some time to grow my balls big enough to do it. Scratching up and painting over perfectly good chrome just seems wrong, but I see so many other yank tanks with chrome steelies so it's time for something a bit different.
The wheels on the Buick are copies of Chev Rallye wheels that, when came on Corvettes and Camaros, were usually painted silver or matched the body colour with stainless steel dress rings like this...
So that was the kind of look I was going for but leaning more towards base model cars of the 60's/70's that would have had colour coded wheels with basic hub caps.
Enough jibba jabba, here's some pics...
First I scuffed up the chrome with some 120 grit sand paper
I rolled up some thin cardboard instead of masking and sprayed on some etching primer.
Then added colour. I wanted a light brown/tan similar to the interior. I got this from Supersheep Auto's range of touch up spray cans.
Back on the wag with the poverty caps on.
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