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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:25 pm 
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At night they worked really well. However I did do it differently to most to get it to look that good at night.

I made up a sandwich of the face layer on top, a transparency layer with a black set of guages with only the markings allowing light through, and the bottom layer was made from frosted plastic with the relevant holes cut in all layers.

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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:03 pm 
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Wow........ must of taken a while... nice job. Got an idea of using uv paint and changing all the dial/main dash globes to black /uv lights... see how it goes..
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:49 am 
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Finally got round to giving this a go...

3 hours later... (1 hour of that was spent re-learning Photoshop :lol: )

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Doesn't look like I did much but I'm thinking "less is more!"

I made the Carbon Fibre pattern myself :) and fiddled with the FPV logos for ages til I got a good one.

What do you think?!
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:50 am 
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Has anyone tried putting the transparent needles on an EA-ED dash?

I'm thinking of buying a cluster just to play with..
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:54 am 
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MoNGoose, you're going to want a higher res FPV logo.

Other wise
simple = good
carbon fibre = good

I like it (anything with cf I like).

 

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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:26 pm 
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You got a higher res FPV logo?

The problem with that "logo" is that it's just a cut out I made with the Magic Wand tool of the FPV logo on the BF GT cluster with a few effects added.
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 8:32 pm 
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frankieh wrote:
Has anyone tried putting the transparent needles on an EA-ED dash?

I'm thinking of buying a cluster just to play with..


I can tell you now it won't work.

They are completely different in the design and operation, so no go I am afraid.

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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:35 pm 
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Try this.

 

 

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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:23 pm 
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nice work.
can u install a digi tial.

 

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:41 am 
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Here's one with a Ford logo and blue instead of grey... thoughts?

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:44 am 
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Anyone got a high-res pic of the Tickford logo... I want to try that one too.
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:17 am 
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Like your Ford one, you know with a back mask, you can make it glow at night (like B series XR/FPV's do, I did this to my EL too).

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:57 am 
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Data, with your black mask, did you cut out the individual speedo marks or does just leaving them as white show through enough?
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:16 pm 
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Has anyone tried printing these onto an overhead transparency?
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:48 pm 
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@Boppo, no need to cut out the mask. Regular paper (80GSM) is fine. I actually printed the mask layer onto the back of the top layer - so there's only one sheet of paper involved (remember to mirror image the mask layer to print on the back)

@MoNGooSE, won't be any good, the clear bits will show through the ugly insides of the cluster. Unless you mean just for the mask layer, in that case I don't see why not.

 

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