Turbine Inspired Center Console DIY
Well, I decided to add a little flair, as I was watching that turbine car video posted by Jay Leno and he was talking about the dash plaque that says "TURBINE POWER by CHRYSLER"
and I wanted something like that too, but not on the dash - on the piece, so I kind of recreated it, but for my specific car. It's just as cheesy as the turbine car's.
I saved some stills of that video to get an idea of what the fonts looked like, and kind of found a few that matched, and made up a custom image. I printed it out on my fiancee's 31" vinyl plotter.
First I laid down a 15" long white stripe of vinyl that was 1 1/2" high. Then I bordered it with chrome striping (I love this stuff) and then printed out my two custom vinyls and put a mask on them to adhere them to the piece. I screwed up one of them while trying to remove the cuout of the "R" and scrapped it. So I'll reprint the other side tomorrow. I think it will add just that one more piece of flashyness. It also breaks up the large silver portion, which is good, because it almost seemed to bland by itself.
Tomorrow I'll also get a start on masking off the silver and white and laying down the black, and we'll see what this piece looks like.
Well, I decided to add a little flair, as I was watching that turbine car video posted by Jay Leno and he was talking about the dash plaque that says "TURBINE POWER by CHRYSLER"
and I wanted something like that too, but not on the dash - on the piece, so I kind of recreated it, but for my specific car. It's just as cheesy as the turbine car's.
I saved some stills of that video to get an idea of what the fonts looked like, and kind of found a few that matched, and made up a custom image. I printed it out on my fiancee's 31" vinyl plotter.
First I laid down a 15" long white stripe of vinyl that was 1 1/2" high. Then I bordered it with chrome striping (I love this stuff) and then printed out my two custom vinyls and put a mask on them to adhere them to the piece. I screwed up one of them while trying to remove the cuout of the "R" and scrapped it. So I'll reprint the other side tomorrow. I think it will add just that one more piece of flashyness. It also breaks up the large silver portion, which is good, because it almost seemed to bland by itself.
Tomorrow I'll also get a start on masking off the silver and white and laying down the black, and we'll see what this piece looks like.
