Ok someone mentioned this before, and im thinking about trying it. Painting the outside casing of the altezza red with that testors candy apple red paint( if my walmart ever gets it). I was wondering if it looks horrible, is there a way to remove this once it drys with out clouding the plastic. Anyone with good photo shop skills to do this?

Im hoping it would turn out like the new VW, id leave the reverse light space there, id just mask it off..... I know some will hate it no matter what, but hey no one has it.....

vw tails....

 

i think it might look pretty phat go for it man... one of a kind definatly

 

My friend had that same idea for his 95-96 after seeing my 99 all-reds. As for something that will get it off, dont worry, go to your local home depot/lowes and pick up a small tin can (yellow) of Goof-Off. Its in the paint thinner section. Its all purpose remover, so its nowhere near as harsh as straight up paint thinner. Ive rubbed and rubbed my tails since i went through a few different stages of designs. No fogging whatsoever for me...


Good luck, and its good to see people being more unique with their tails...




Eric

 

I have seen a Del Sol with 1/2 red altezzas and it looks good, so give it a shot. whats the worst that can happen; You need to buy some Oops! or Goof-Off?

 

well, if this turns out to look good i'd just like to take all the credit for it cause i thought of it first... or at least posted first about it... as far i know anyway

edit: here is the link to that thread (post #5) http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=280586

 

It could look like this.......

 

whoa...kinda big there...jee...dunno wat to say

 

tryy ittt.. take pics..

 

I All Ready Tried Painting My Altezzas All Red.they Look Just Like 2damax Pic.they Still Look Like Crap.i Put Back My Factory Lights Back And Painted Them All Red.they Look Much Better.

 

i dunno, i like the look of the black chrome alteezas, im going with them. if u have a darker color maxima i think they look great!

 

it might look like the chevy impala tail lights

 

It's been done.I found this picture yesterday, it's weird that this thread popped up. Check it out, it doesn't look bad. Just imagine the wing not being there.

 

Heres a couple quick p-chops before work...I took the pic from an ebay auction. I would like something like the second pic but the photochop kinda sucks because i did it so quickly. Also, i dont know if the outer chrome edge is separate or under the plastice so I just excluded it Later

 

Or even on pebble biege maximas

 

If anyone is actually to do this, how would you guys get the reverse light to light up white if the entire lense are to be painted red? Maybe mounting an external reverse light under the bumper would do it, just don't know how legal it will be.

 

hey, good job with those photochops
i like how you left the reverse light clear, it actually looks better that way. i'd really like to see ones like that installed on a car...

so i guess i wasn't the first to think of this as evidenced by that picture of the black max with the wing... oh well... it was an original idea to me tho

 

I wasn't thinking about painting the entire lens with transparent paint...what my idea was was to paint the chrome inside with transparent red paint...that way, you still get the flashiness of the chrome where as if you used any other paint, it would just cover it. You can leave the lense clear...I would try it but I dont have altezza's or money

 

Thanks alot Poe Poe those look real good, i like that outline in black. I was thinking of a couple different things... Painting the chrome part black, with the color of my car, or painting that part red, or the clear casing red with the reverse light left clear....Also i was thinking about painting the altezzas black like the car, and not putting on the clear lense for a 3d look, but thats kinda ricy.... What do you guys think?

Ill definatly be the guinea pig on this one, and if i hate it, ill just tint my stock 96 ones black on top

 

Hey, if i had a set of altezzas...I would definatly do it. BTW, 96 tail lights with the top tinted are so hot...I did mine and can't stop thinking how hot it looks

 

OK I got the paint, is it the same to get the altezzas apart as it is to get the stock ones apart? Heat them at 200? Then how do i seperate them, and do i need something to reseal them???

thanks

 

bump..............

 

those are mad ugly

 

nice, but that comment didnt help anything, we have established 100000 times a lot of people hate altezzas, and anyone that trys something other than red/clears is a horrible person... CLAP CLAP you reasserted a known flaming issue.

 

no no no, the all red altezzas are horrible, that was the point of my post, but you read it wrong obviously

your photoshops need work, you got the link for the original pics of the side by side tails?

also, be less edgy about this new idea, with the bumping, and yelling at people

 

lol sorry, i did misread, im just sick of getting hated on about my altezzas all the time.... and now im trying to do something about it. sorry...

 

yes exactly, so post that pic, so i can help photochop it better, so the project doesnt look bad

 

when i talked to oblong, he said he was going to use candle apple red paint. this is about as close as i could get, while leaving the altezza "texture" inside. i did one lense, half red, other half left the same, easier to compare, and decide if you like it or not

 

take a look at the one on the right what do you think

 

Im going to put in my stock ones tomorrow, and start taking them apart to do this, ill start a new thread to let you all know with pictures how they look in a few days. Thanks for everyones help and comments, and SXN for the photoshop. This project has evolved quite nice.....

 

Heres a pic from custom maxima.com which i photochoped....i cant quite get the color right but its a shot.....I got the side by side photo from ebay, just search maxima altezza

 

just to get opinions real quick... do you all think its better to paint the inside chrome, than the outside clear lense? Cause that was what i was going to do

 

nasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

i think outside chrome painted would be better, also PoePoe, that photochop hurts my eyes. hotmax97, you cheated, to try and make red/clears from altezzas. not only would that be very very difficult, it wouldnt work. that small lense in the lower right hand corner is the reverse light.

 

The small lens in the right corner is not a reverse light but a side marker. You can either paint over it, or pull it out completly.The reverse light is on the inner trunk light,its the clear half circle. But it still wouldnt work. They would be red/silver not red/clears. Also, the circles are red lens.

 

Eventhough I photochopped the idea, I never liked it from the start. I'm just speaking out about it now since I didn't wanna hurt any altezza owner's feelings. I'm sticking with my stock lenses, ambers don't bother me. Stay with ambers, ambers can be your friends too. Ambers don't bother cops either so they'll stay off your tip. I have more important mods to worry about, nothing aesthetic. It's all performance babeee!

 

Anybody ever try taking the outer clear lens, painting half of it red and replacing the stock lens with it? Might give like a diamond clear appearance for the 96 lights