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Mr B

Member Since: 10 Jul 2012
Location: Buckinghamshire
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Looks great Steve

6th Feb 2013 9:47pm

adafish

Member Since: 30 Mar 2009
Location: atherstone
Posts: 1385

1984 Defender 110 300 Tdi DCPU Stornoway Grey

Soooooooooooooooooooooo, last year.!!!! Putting Dreams on Drives at JLR Solihull..

6th Feb 2013 10:38pm

AlisterC

Member Since: 25 Apr 2012
Location: Somerset
Posts: 116

2011 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Indus Silver

Nice one Steve....they look great!

7th Feb 2013 9:00am

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
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Turned out well in the end.

Hope all is well with the ICE system.

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7th Feb 2013 9:39am

ericvv

Member Since: 02 Jun 2011
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2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

When will Alive's white background come available? You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation.
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7th Feb 2013 9:59am

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
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ericvv wrote:
When will Alive's white background come available?

Still in the pipeline I believe if not available already. Not a fan myself... Could do with some different variations really. TheThunder Rolls🇬🇧🇺🇸
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7th Feb 2013 10:28am

lrmaniac

Member Since: 04 Feb 2010
Location: Lisboa
Posts: 762

2010 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Keswick Green

They look great!

custom90steve wrote:
...Killer did the priming and prep though I just finished them off.

hummm meaning you can't just paint them....what prep is involved? sanding, primary and then painting? Regards
Joao

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7th Feb 2013 2:42pm

Go Beyond

Member Since: 30 Jan 2012
Location: Headcorn, Kent
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The rings are plastic.

Prep by washing thoroughly to degrease, rough up surface (using the washing up 'green thing' scourer does this well

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Once totally dry (put in the airing cupboard overnight) spray using a plastic primer (available in aerosol from Halfords), a couple of coats will be enough just to cover the original colour, allow to dry (you maybe pushing it putting it in the airing cupboard now ....)

Once dry paint with your aerosol colour of choice, again a few coats and allow to dry.

To finish a few coats of clear lacquer

It's an easy job and the results look great as Steve has shown

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7th Feb 2013 3:07pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 20626

lrmaniac wrote:

hummm meaning you can't just paint them....what prep is involved? sanding, primary and then painting?

You can just I didn't have any primer or wet and dry paper and Killer did so he did it. But I had some gloss black paint and clear coat so I finished the rest.

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7th Feb 2013 4:13pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 20626

Just read your post too Matt. Yours do too you've even gone and done the dial mounts too.

You really should have gone for a glossy black backing with the same colour rings though.

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7th Feb 2013 4:15pm

Go Beyond

Member Since: 30 Jan 2012
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I haven't decided on colours yet, that was just an 'exercise' to establish how easy it would be to do ...

7th Feb 2013 4:43pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
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Ah good.

I just find it's time consuming really rather than difficult. Can be annoying though if you get a problem and you have to start all over again. TheThunder Rolls🇬🇧🇺🇸
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7th Feb 2013 4:50pm

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2016 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS DCPU Fuji White

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7th Feb 2013 6:11pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
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That's the bu**ers.

The heater bezels are the easiest to get out and do though. TheThunder Rolls🇬🇧🇺🇸
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7th Feb 2013 6:12pm

fekete

Member Since: 24 Dec 2008
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2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 HT Bonatti Grey

Looks great Steve

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7th Feb 2013 6:51pm

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