mustang0672

Just ordered this-
http://www.cjponyparts.com/CDC-TAILL...-2012/p/TPM19/

My choices:
1. Painting the piece black to match my wheels.
2. Painting it black and having this picture of my car airbrushed on it.

3. Leaving it with the plastic look..

ODDYSEY

I would just leave it black as it will match the other factory black plastic. You could also paint it black and that would be ok I think, but airbrushing anything on it would not look good in my opinion.

BigDinTexas

I say start with option 3 and just see how you like it... If you hate it, then I would paint it black to match... However, if you are considering airbrushing the entire pic of you car onto that piece, I say no... the piece isn't flat, so I'm not sure how an airbrush artist would fare on putting that image on it.

Don

mustang0672

How about removing the faux cap and having the bump cut out? Just having a smooth area there. Maybe paint the area the panel would fill gloss black?

Adam

The fake sparkles don't look good at all IMO

stealth_GT

That's a great looking pony, wouldn't want to go anything that's too over the top..

I think black might look the best.

MustangFirstCar

I personally don't dig the panel at all, but if you are set on it, flat black plastic will probably be best. The gold paint is so rich and full of sparkles, I think black paint would just detract from it. And painting it body color would look funny and probably not match the car very well.

JayyVee

Try it, if the airbgbrush work doesn't turn out how you like, go over in black again and call it a day.

But at least try what your vision is, you never know the outcome - if your airbrush guy is good he can probably get around the 'curve' in the panel and use some optical illusion to the airbrushing to make it stand 'out' vs just being painted on.

BTW I think you have one of the sweetest cars here that paint is silly mad..

I take it that to get your side/rear valances painted they had to come off, was it hard to get a good paint match since yours seems pretty darn unique?

stealth_GT

looking at it again, I think painting it black would be the best idea unless you like the hard plastic look. I had one on mine and ended up taking it off, I had the CDC one. It looked okay but I got tired of the plastic look. It was slightly textured, not smooth.

mustang0672

I think we have already done something over the top..


Planning on adding more to the engine bay.
I am determining whether I want black or get the pic painted like stated. I might just try the picture and If I don't like it have it painted black.