Trying a light stone fleck scheme...

[Ghadsphi]

About x months ago I decided apon using white grey stone fleck paint for my alero's interior. I got around to painting the um dash cone deally. (Can you tell I'm a noob?) It actually turned out ok but for a small paint it looked retarded on the whole. Over the next 2 days I'm going to rip the dash apart and paint the rest of it, in moderation (Marriage really eats your time up).
Here comes my big question, and I'll post some pics of the stone fleck first real soon, but since I have a silverish Alero when I rip apart lights to clear the corners should I apply my scheme to the headlight bezels also? I think it will look pretty nice except it will probably be the only outward apearance of it at all. I haven't heard of anyone else trying this stuff so far and it hasn't flaked or anything over the past 6+ months at all so I'll post a pic in a little while of what I'm talking about... After a few more drinks... I'll need them for the flameing I'm sure.

[whiteliquid]

with grey dont color match....maybe black or leave em chrome.

What are your future plans.

[Ghadsphi]

I think it's one of those things you need to see, It's textured too so it's not just a color it has that kind of weird feel to it. Realy, I'll take a pic of the dash in couple. I only painted the one piece cuz to see how it would last. Great so far, I don't use many chems on it and it was clear coated, over and over and over. But once you see it I think you'll think it would rock on the headlight bezel of a silver or maby even black with light grey interior Alero.

[adam337]

leave the interior stock..i can already tell its going to look like ass :thumb:

[Ghadsphi]

And you haven't even seen my gimpy kmart interior? Can I have some winning lotto numbers too?

(Sorry installing editing software so I don't have to worry about giant pics)

[Ghadsphi]

You can see in pic C that it doesn't spray even and the texture looks weak at some angles. But for gray/silver it's hard to find anything that looks good and I'm thinking this concrete looking stone might be the fit.

[Ghadsphi]

Over the next couple days I'm planing on doing most of the rest of the trims in that fleck, not everything though. It's a little unpredictable though since it's it's a 3-d fleck (basically it's chucks of color {light greys} over a base coat (black in this case) ). You can see the section that turned out more black at that one angle. It's got a rough rock texture to it and I put about 5 coats of clear coat on it, probably will put some more since it's water soluable. But it's held up pretty good so far.

[adam337]

looks like a countertop dont like it..sorry man just really doesnt look like it belongs in a car id say youre probably the first to do it though..?

[Ghadsphi]

Really think it looks like countertops? I'll be lighting it blue, so I think the whites will light up nicely but the greys won't darken so much as to make it dark. Plus I don't plan to paint the entire interior just the basic int trim and the top half of the center. Around the HVAC and such, and leave that dark grey. Guess we'll have to see how long the wife will let me work it on my 4 days away from wife (2 day left, 3 hours actually used, Math = If it get's worse I'm going fishing and taking everything with me!!!)

[adam337]

paint it all one color..not white stone and then blue.. stock ftw

[sound_xtreme]

rofl?

[Ghadsphi]

Come on Sound, "rofl?" is either an unsure that it's going to look like Shite or that it might eventually work out... Details... I need them. Plus since I'm going through with it any idea might help.

Has anyone ever sanded their Hazard button? Since I'm going to have it off for a few days there's some darker stones I could inverse stencil on it, does it have a natural color? Any ideas? There's a green granite that I might think would work there.... I don't think much light will show through the flecks, hell I could probably sand some pieces on my dash now, and as you can see I need to sand some.

[sorrowfulkiller]

Interesting, I don't really like it too much, but I really wanna see this after you get finished

[SikMindz]

Sorry but the stone fleck paint does not rock.

lol

[Vinalero]

Maybe the final product will be really nice or it will be a giant disco ball. I don't really like flashy colors, but that's just me. If I have to paint some color in my car, it will have to be really dark, and will have to fit with the rest of the interior. My 2 pennies.

"Ah Ah Ah Ah staying alive staying alive, Ah Ah Ah Ah Staying AAAALLLLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVEEEEEEEE":scpimp:

[olds2race]

Dude, ditch the stone fleck bullshit. Are you trying to turn your ride into a Flinstone replica1!!!!!!!?

[billytheman1188]

Dude, ditch the stone fleck bullshit. Are you trying to turn your ride into a Flinstone replica1!!!!!!!?

Well atleast he doesnt paint it with just regular blue paint like some people:rolleyes2:
im not a big fan of it, but it will be different, when u get all of it done, post some pics, im interested to see how it turns out.

[yoslvr442]

is that trunk spatter paint?? thats what it looks like to me. looks like it belongs in my trunk of the 442.

[yoslvr442]

it doesnt look bad tho...

[sound_xtreme]

k, lemme rephrase.....looks like absolute garbage.

[HazMatt24]

my buddy had a textured dash in his Camaro and it looked awesome, but it was all black. Maybe it's just the color choice people are not liking.

[troyertrain]

my buddy had a textured dash in his Camaro and it looked awesome, but it was all black. Maybe it's just the color choice people are not liking.

ha, no i think its the fact that he painted his interior w/ simulated stone paint... this is one of the worst ideas i have ever seen...

[HazMatt24]

ha, no i think its the fact that he painted his interior w/ simulated stone paint... this is one of the worst ideas i have ever seen...

which would be color choice

[whiteliquid]

its not to bad...like if you add a waterfall and paint the interior like a forest or somethin with rocks.

[HazMatt24]

like run a waterfall down from the back seat to the armrest

[2fst4u]

did you remove the part before painting? i can't tell in the pics

[cavaliers60]

I'm thinking if I saw it in person I might like it... As of right now, I'm not forming an opinion until you are finished with it and have more pictures.... People on here form an opinion WAY too soon. He's not even finished with it yet...

[billytheman1188]

I'm thinking if I saw it in person I might like it... As of right now, I'm not forming an opinion until you are finished with it and have more pictures.... People on here form an opinion WAY too soon. He's not even finished with it yet...

People dont form an opinion way too soon, we wait for pics and then we look at it and see if we like it or not and then they tell the person their opinion. Im not a big fan of this paint job either......you can clearly see that the paint looks very weird on a dashboard of a car. Its unique, which is cool, but it just doesnt look right.

Most people on here give opinions when they see pics, and everyone is honest, which is nice, cause you dont have people lieing to you when it doesnt look good............

Yea hes not finished but a lot of the people are trying to help him by saying DONT DO IT, they are trying to save him from doing something that would look horrible. If he likes it, then he will do it, but there is a chance that when he gets the whole dash done that he might not like it, and then it would be a hassle to re-do the dash.

[cavaliers60]

I think I found the paint he's using.... It's a stone look spray paint... The picture on the bottle is of a flower pot... saw it in the paint isle at K-Mart. I'm leaning towards the side of not liking it.... sorry dude...

[Ghadsphi]

Ok, I finally got most the painting done, I forgot to do the hazard bezel and I didn't get the passenger vent out till today so there's no pics of that. It actually didn't come out as bad as I thought it might IMO.
Of course I did take off the masking tape before I sprayed the clearcoat so the the black on the center console and a couple vents look a little nasty but they'll clean up just fine.

[troyertrain]

ok, as far as your job doing it, you did a good job... but as far as how it looks, im sorry man, but it looks like hell... its a product that has no business being in a car, but i will give you props for originality...

[nhartwell]

yea, definately not diggin it dude, but w/e.. why the hell ask opinions, it is your car... who the hell in the right mind would sport something someone else likes rather than what they like themselves. great job if you like it though!

but if other's opinions matter that much i'll tell u one thing, those tribal scorpions gotta go. they are worse than the stone paint.

[billytheman1188]

ehhh im not diggin it, but its your car.

hey atleast its different:lol:

[greenbastard]

sorry man but i'm not feelin' it. by the way i have the same deck, how do you like it? mine works really good but when it gets really cold (-20'C), when you try to turn the volume up it goes up and down

[burg03]

that stone flake looks like ass!!!! Its different though

[Vinalero]

ok, as far as your job doing it, you did a good job... but as far as how it looks, im sorry man, but it looks like hell... its a product that has no business being in a car, but i will give you props for originality...


I couldn't say better than this.

On the side, are all the parts only hold by clips that you can just pull out? And for the vent, does it comes out with all the stuff in it or only the cover? ( I don't know if i'm clear enough sry :( )

[Ghadsphi]

The vents come out with all the stuff inside if you do it right. I was doing it in poor lighting and couldn't get the center vent out so I managed to pop the front trim off. The front trim unclips from that though. The center console just pulls out after you remove the shifter cover. Check out...
http://www.aleromod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5350&highlight=vents

[Vinalero]

Nice, ty I couldn't find this one

[alero168]

looks like styrofoam

[diablo]

I think it looks interesting, lol, I have the alpine deck kinda like yours but 2 models up

[clutch1]

If you're going to keep that you need to do up your interior with some white shag or some poofy stuff. I'm not sure, but just that alone looks dumb.

[nhartwell]

clutch makes a good point. stand alone it doesnt look too good. it stands out 'too much'. you need to accent it so it doesnt look soo akward or out of place.

[cavaliers60]

yeah........ I like the waterfall idea. lol

[adam337]

as i thought..it turned out horrible but atleast you didnt fuck up the job?

[Freezman2]

It looks good for what it is..props to ya...but to me it looks like something out of the Flinstones...

[Oldsnut]

That would have been all the rage in the mid 80's when that stuff was used heavily. I personally don't care for it and it will wear off quickly. A for effort though.

[pimpalero2003]

looks like a good job just dont like it i like it when its smooth and shinney

[p1mptress]

It's different and I'm not sure if I like it or not. No opinion comes to mind when I look at the pics. I dunno I might need to see a pic from the back seat of the whole front to tell you what I think of it! But good just on painting it!! A+++

[SikMindz]

You've successfully brought together the Oldsmobile Alero and the Flinstones family car! Props!

[alerocar01]

good job on the paint work but i'm with everyone else not liking it.

[TwistedDreams]

wow:thumbsdown: