looks great! ive been looking for a pic of a black truck with grey hood! thoy i think if i do it ill do it like tys did his.. only i dark grey...

and do the grill! looks awesome

 

Once the Grill is done it will look great!

 

Looks great man, I aggree that you should definitely paint the grille as well.

 

Nice job cant wait to see the grille shell painted.

 

Heres a better pic then :D

I color sanded and buffed it again. I missed some colorsanding scratches yesterday. Oops.

Plus i used a better camera than my phone this time.

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Without the flash



With the flash.



Yes, its shiny too! Shinier than the factory clear as a matter of fact.


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Looks nice! You need to re-clear the entire truck, great shine.

 

Badass Steve! Anymore DSG laying around??? My shell is going to need some eventually...haha

 

DO THE GRILLE!!!!! I wana see it lol

 

DSG for days man.... lol. Ill see what i can do closer to Christmas when we arent busy.



I probably will this Friday. I want to seperate the shell from the grille, but i dunno if its gonna be a pain. So sue me, im super super picky (to the point of being obsessive compulsive sometimes) and id rather not just mask it off. I guess i could just be really careful masking it, but darnit... the two pieces sit really flush so its a tight gap.

 

Once the grille surround and grille insert have been snapped together they are almost impossible to get apart. I tried to do it when I painted mine, but I would have broke the clips before I got it apart. So I had to carefully mask the grille off, it took forever.

 

x2!

 

time for some fine line tape and a razor blade. Oh well, I can do it but its alot of work to do it and make it look clean.

 

Steve that is so awesome!! I really like it. Now...I wonder what that valence would look like smoothed and painted black....or even DSG...hmmm...

 

id probably do it black. And it would probably look like this. I like it alot, but I would want to buy a spare valance to do it to. Why? Im not sure if its paintable plastic. None of the 07+ trucks have body color valances right?

i really like it alot though.

 

Would look AWESOME black!!

It's the same plastic as the flares and valences on older trucks. I've been told they don't really take too well to sanding as they just fuz up. My buddy who did my other buddys flares and valence did multiple layers of high build primer, then sanded that smooth and shot the color.


Oh yeah....yea, no 06+ comes with smooth and painted valences(except STX's). I recall a member here whos '06-07 truck used to be yellow but is now all smooth black, including the valence. His sig says "real men drive yellow trucks" which is funny because his truck is all black now. lol. I'll see if I can find his profile or thread or something.

 

BAM! Yellow Rhino is the members name.

Click: https://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2...whos-back.html



I say dooooo it! If you find a perfect '06-07 valence with perfect fog lights and brackets, I know where there's an '08 owner that'll trade just up the I5 corridor.

 

that looks so sick but you need to finish it off with the color matched grill surround.

 

looks pure sex! any chance you want to photoshop the grey onto the hood of a vista blue truck? so i can see what's up on mine?

 

Give me a good pic to work with and ill get it done for ya.

Found one and did it anyway. Blacked out the center grille too.






I like the first one better. The one with the blue spike in the middle has almost too much color going on with the blue, the grey and the black all punctured right in the middle by more blue.

I mean on the hood you see blue/grey/blue and black/grey/blue. In the first pic its just blue/grey and black/blue.

I like it though. it works.

 

try with this pic, just because i've got the grey on the sides, and grey bumper...

don't know how well this pic is going to work, because the truck is so dirty...

 

if you can use a grey that is real close in color to your bumpers then you have to do it! it would be sick!

 

Wow that looks great.

 

That was a photoshop job though.

However.......

 

oooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!

 

Looks good!

This picture is easier to see: