After seeing the centre caps that I painted to a similar colour to my newly acquired SE37s Bobgenie asked me if I would re colour a pair of SE37s for his car.

Challenge accepted.

We both new before I started that it is impossible to 100% create the look of anodized aluminium with paint.

With that in mind I made a start.

Someone else had already painted them ...but it was way too dark..

I flatted them back and masked off the inner faces.

I already had a paint process that worked so I just repeated it.....

 

I have been to my local paint factor and he has mixed me a tin of Fiat Marrone Volcanico.

We also looked at a lot of other colour chips.

It seems to us that the Fiat colour is as good as it gets. It is a bit too dark if sprayed normally

so I have used a silver base coat and then misted the marrone on top, stopping to check after each coat.

Im satisfied with the final look . The misting technique gives a coarser finish which is close to the raw anodized alloy.

 

The final tone adjustment comes from misting on a very light coat of the "Rays Racing Bronze" aerosol supplied by Wheelpaints.co.uk.

Once I was happy with the finish I clear coated them with matt lacquer..

It is a bit of a PITA to do but Im happy with the end result and so is Bob.:biggrin:

Both the original anodised wheels on my car and the two Im painting "change" colour as the light falls on them. The camera doesnt show the differences too well.

 

Some before ....and after pics.

 

Ist two...before

2nd two ...after

 

Now you need to give Bob your centre caps! Nice work Pete [emoji106]

Now I have another pair of Bob's Volk Racnig wheels for the "Racing bronze" treatment. This time its CE28s I think??

This silver pair need to match an existing bronze pair he has.

You can never have too many Volk Racing wheels according to Bob:lol:

 

 

 

The deep centre recess is challenging to paint so Im doing it first to allow the basecoat to flash off before doing the surrounding area.

Bob also wants the insides in bronze so this wont be a quick blow over job!!

 

 

 

Good enough for me....I hope Bob likes it!!:scared:

 

One down and one to go........:thumbup1:

 

 

 

 

That looks fantastic [emoji41]

That looks fantastic [emoji41]

 

Cheers Joel.

I really like the CE28...shame I have to give them back.

I cant believe how light they are for a 10" wheel.

All done.:thumbup1:

 

 

Lovely wheel those are. :)