painted bottle caps

[randomtask37]

Well... I spent a good amount of time prepping and painting these bottle caps to get the lip a separate color from the center.

Now thats its all done, unfortunately I'm not really liking it. The silver lip just doesn't look how I envisioned it. Its to grey or something. I should have saved myself a lot of time/effort/money and gone with black all over. ...or maybe gone crazy and done a red lip. at this point im too lazy to re-mask everything to do a different color lip, it took forever the first time. if i change it again, its going all black.

what do you guys think?

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also, i now have a black and chrome kidney so i figured i test out both. at this point i think chrome is where its at. at least until i get plastic bumpers

[5ickride]

Doesnt look too bad, but bottlecaps are bottlecaps. I like the chrome kidneys better. GL

[MattTHEe30GURU]

Black kidney all the way!

[camip]

Do red lip Yolo of it doesn't look cool paint them black.

[ButtJuice]

It's not too bad, but put the chrome kids back on. Or save up a little cash and buy basket weaves.

[randomtask37]

I will be buying some wheels and tires come christmas so i don't have to live with these very long.

i think ill change them to all black at some point in the next few weeks. maybe try a red lip. but not the whole lip. just the very outer edge. that part thats only like 1/4 inch.

[Eddie Lives On]

I like bottlecaps for what they are. Better than steelies. I prefer the chrome kidneys. Good luck.

[Simon S]

an all-solid color will help the wheels (caps) appear bigger..

[TimKninja]

Chrome Kidneys. Black kidneys are gay.

[Zreberlcoe]

What'd you use to paint them? I Have a crappy set.

[bowtie2bimmer]

I think you did a bang up job...

That being said I think black wheels look stupid no matter what

[randomtask37]

What'd you use to paint them? I Have a crappy set.

I used duplicolor wheel paint from advanced auto.

2 cans of etching primer
2 cans of black
1 can silver - i actually used 'aluminum' engine paint because i started with duplicolor wheel paint silver and it had a sparkle to it which i thought looked terrible.
1 can clear

Started the project with purple power to clean them up. Then sanded with a 3m sponge block. That took a while but the most time consuming and tedious part was taping off each spoke to get black on the center and silver on the lip. i could have saved hours if i just went flat black all over.
i went the extra mile by painting the interior of the wheel to. the inside well is sliver and hub-side center is black. I didnt clear coat the inside though.

[DooDanE30]

Bottlecaps are just wack man. Unfortunately painting them doesn't do them any good.

[Zreberlcoe]

I used duplicolor wheel paint from advanced auto.

2 cans of etching primer
2 cans of black
1 can silver - i actually used 'aluminum' engine paint because i started with duplicolor wheel paint silver and it had a sparkle to it which i thought looked terrible.
1 can clear

Started the project with purple power to clean them up. Then sanded with a 3m sponge block. That took a while but the most time consuming and tedious part was taping off each spoke to get black on the center and silver on the lip. i could have saved hours if i just went flat black all over.
i went the extra mile by painting the interior of the wheel to. the inside well is sliver and hub-side center is black. I didnt clear coat the inside though.

Do you know what kind of paint it was? like brand? Because I am really up for doing this! How much did it all cost in supplies? And a close up pic of the rims?

[CabbE30]

^Duplicolor & $40