malcolm_durant
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Hi All,
Did a few things to the car today which involved me pulling the surround from the gearshift.
Realised that was plastic and not real wood (although I know the dash and door cappings are) which I feel strangely disappointed by...all my Rover 800's had real wood trim throughout and they weren't even Sterlings.
Then I noticed that there are some people on eBay selling plastic trim very skillfully painted up to look like veneer - but boy...what a price (there are some tweeter covers on right now for £150..!!).
However, if done right this is obviously much better than the stick-on trims you can get. Despite googling and searching on YouTube, I can't find any "how to paint/spray fake walnut veneer effects". Does anyone know of any links out there?
I have an airbrush and compressor by the way, and if I stuff up I'd just spray the whole bloody lot gloss black and pretend it's piano black veneer...
Cheers,
Malcolm
Did a few things to the car today which involved me pulling the surround from the gearshift.
Realised that was plastic and not real wood (although I know the dash and door cappings are) which I feel strangely disappointed by...all my Rover 800's had real wood trim throughout and they weren't even Sterlings.
Then I noticed that there are some people on eBay selling plastic trim very skillfully painted up to look like veneer - but boy...what a price (there are some tweeter covers on right now for £150..!!).
However, if done right this is obviously much better than the stick-on trims you can get. Despite googling and searching on YouTube, I can't find any "how to paint/spray fake walnut veneer effects". Does anyone know of any links out there?
I have an airbrush and compressor by the way, and if I stuff up I'd just spray the whole bloody lot gloss black and pretend it's piano black veneer...
Cheers,
Malcolm