finally got my dash mod done

[etlsport]

originally i fiberglasssed over the entire area with a very thin layer so to hide the seams... well as soon as i got it painted it cracked as i was trying to drill out the holes for the switches..

so i broke out a big hammer and screwdriver and knocked the fiberglass out completely and started over just filling in the fuzzy hole

after lots and lots and lots and lots of sanding...


then after even more sanding it was smooooooooth



then a few layers of rustoleum metallic all purpose spray paint... some wet sanding and a clearcoat i drilled out the holes for the switches and voila!

except after a day of being dry bubbles started to appear around the edge of the fuzzy hole.. so ill one day repaint it.. but it doesnt look bad at all

thanks for the good comments!

[etlsport]

btw does anyone have a photo of the stock fuzzy hole? i do believe thats the ONLY photo i dont have of a vx (right tom?) i wanted a photo of it stock for comparison at shows/ in my portfolio

[VehiGAZ]

Beautiful work, Eric!

[rowhard]

Kind of like what I did. But I used a piece of plexiglas using the cubby hole thing as a pattern, epoxied it in and used some as a filler, sanded and painted after cutting hole for the clock.

[etlsport]

yep, rowhard, your clock was my inspiration for this mod!

littlebeast, i dont let anyone else drive my VX! haha my next mod (probably will go in the center of those switches) is an ignition safety with an analog coded "key" that must be inserted before the ignition will work... i am considering labeling them though, not sure the best way to do it

[tom4bren]

"ONLY photo i dont have of a vx (right tom?)"

I'm speechless.

I'd offer to take a pic of the stock config but my camera went Tango Uniform recently. That's why I haven't posted pix of my offset for the other thread yet.

BTW - most excellent work. KUDOS

[Knigh7s]

For the labeling, you could pick up a sheet of inkjet waterslide decal paper (Same kind that comes with those plastic models that you dip in a solution and slide it onto the model.) throw a sheet in your inkjet printer and make the labels of your choice, cut them out and slide them onto the location you want and let dry, then spray a nice clearcoat over them. You can pick them up at any model/rc hobby shop.