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Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!! UPDATED

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  •  06-23-2007, 5:15 PM 350811

    Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!! UPDATED

    Guide to making foolproof awesome looking Carbon Fibre

    Please note the carbon fibre must be made over a solid graphite coloured object so either colour your whole car or your bonnet this METALLIC colour

    Or if your car is a different colour cover and you want to cover a random area that isnt the bonnet you want place a vinyl of this colour underneath.

    Note if doing a small area and applying a vinyl below the results wont look quite so good, but still good!

    Step 1

    Apply Vinyl Shape - Stripes - Stripe 17

    Make it this colour

    Resize it to

    X - 0.21
    y - 36.61 or more, not less (make sure this stretchs over the widest point of the area)
    Spin - 28.00

    You should have something looking like this

    Copy this layer and duplicate, align it up exactly parallel. You made need to overlap it just slightly to make it look continuous. Once you have about 3 lined up you can copy those 3 layers and line them up etc, until you have covered the whole area.

    Step 2

    Apply Vinyl Shape - Stripes - Stripe 17

    Make it this colour

    Resize it to

    X - 0.15
    y - 36.61 or more, not less (make sure this stretchs over the widest point of the area)
    Spin - 334.73

    You should have something looking like this

    Again start duplicating and lining up

    When you have covered your area, tidy up any edges and voila, you have carbon fibre

    Step 3

    Admire



    Thanks for reading, any problems or errors let me know and il amend.


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  •  06-23-2007, 5:39 PM 351012 in reply to 350811

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    Great tutorial.  It's probably the best looking and uses the least amount of layers, good find.  I thought it looked a little too bright though so I added a black box on top of it with 50% transparency.  It makes it look a little deeper.
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  •  06-23-2007, 5:43 PM 351047 in reply to 351012

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    Nice tutorial mate. ill be sure to try it out, also best looking CF ive seen so far

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  •  06-23-2007, 5:44 PM 351051 in reply to 350811

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    another pic showing end results,

    I cannot stress how much better it looks when on your tv


    Keep it clean
  •  06-23-2007, 5:50 PM 351092 in reply to 351012

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    Excellent job I will have to try this out later on, thanks for the post.
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  •  06-23-2007, 6:05 PM 351214 in reply to 351092

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    My R32 WIP loves it, photo coming soon....
  •  06-23-2007, 6:09 PM 351248 in reply to 351214

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    this is friggin awesome!  Going on the hood of my car.
  •  06-23-2007, 6:17 PM 351292 in reply to 351092

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    Steve - I thought I had made the ultimate tutorial ( replies said so too!! ) but your method is superb.  Also very few layers to achieve a great effect!!

    I am running  "tutorials" Thread and will replace my CF guide with yours!!

    The Tutorials can be found HERE


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  •  06-23-2007, 6:42 PM 351451 in reply to 351214

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    Great job man, just followed your tutorial and it came out great...
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  •  06-23-2007, 6:46 PM 351499 in reply to 351292

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    cool it deffo comes out better on the tv doesn't it?
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  •  06-23-2007, 7:32 PM 351896 in reply to 351499

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!



    looks awesome well done on the tutorial.
  •  06-23-2007, 8:23 PM 352358 in reply to 351896

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    looks good that
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  •  06-23-2007, 8:26 PM 352388 in reply to 352358

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    Excellent job and good write up  - this will maybe put the whole "how do I do CF" to bed now eh?
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  •  06-23-2007, 8:30 PM 352421 in reply to 352388

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    Just found something out. This doesn't work great on wierdly shaped hoods... you'd have to add more layers.
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  •  06-23-2007, 8:57 PM 352727 in reply to 352421

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    nice tips
  •  06-23-2007, 9:06 PM 352800 in reply to 350811

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    Wow, great guide! How's this:



    Only took like 10 minutes too.

    Wait, might look better bigger:



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  •  06-23-2007, 9:11 PM 352842 in reply to 352800

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    looks good.

    Anyone any idea of an example hood it doesn't work on? cheers
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  •  06-23-2007, 11:07 PM 353847 in reply to 352842

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    How's this for carbon witout the tutorial? But a very very good tutorial. Great job!

  •  06-24-2007, 1:38 AM 354592 in reply to 353847

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    that looks like a real pic.

    here is a pic of a carbon hood i did

  •  06-24-2007, 1:53 AM 354667 in reply to 354592

    Re: Foolproof guide to awesome Carbon Fibre in 3 easy steps!!

    You win the internet lol, thank you for showing me a way to not waste 1000 layers :P

    My picture of my hood(plus I used it on the front lip on the front areo):


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