Just re finished my fuchs wheels RSR style
 

Please tell me what do you think. This is the first time that I do this and it was only after Magnus Walker posted how he painted his deep sevens that I was inspired to do my 6x15.

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Hard to tell without pictures.... :)

To be perfectly honest, they don't look like much at all

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I like them a lot. Very nice.

Yes very inspiring. So which thread did you use to get finishing details?

Funny thing, I'm getting used to looking at pictures of guys shoes, never thought that I would.

Make certain you clean all the paint out of the lug seats. Don't want lug nuts coming loose first time they get hot.

+1 on that.

As far as the paint goes, this is the best idea I've seen but I'd like some tips on getting the RSR finish on the petals.

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Those look sweet. I'm waiting on my 7"s to come back from TrueDesign as 11"s :D
They'll have the RSR finish as well but I'll be doing my 9"s myself. I'm also curious about which technique you used. Do tell.
By the way, great advise about removing the paint behind the lug nuts.
Never would have thought of that. Gotta love PP

In the tutorial it looks like he is only using black paint. Hard to tell from your pics, but are you using white and black paint?

Yay Magnus

Method
 

I saw a post in Magnus Walker's blog telling that he prefers to paint his wheels instead to having them re-anodized so I set out to do the same. I contacted a friend who has a some experience in auto paint and we discussed the possible ideas to copy the effect of white anodizing. We decided to mix the smallest-flake white pearl base we could find with a tiny bit of black to give it the grey/silver sub tone. Once we got the color right, we tested this base coat using a matte clear coat on top in different percentages of matte until the finish was indistinguishable from a white-anodized aluminum ashtray we had on hand and which we used for deciding the necessary reflection and texture. Since 6jX15 fuchs are not that deep, we decided not to polish the lip but to use two different percentages of matte in the clear coat, a satin-matte finish in the rim lip(40%) and an almost full matte on the center and petals(85%). After that we just masked them and painted the satin black single stage.
I have to say that before we started, we sand-blasted the wheels lightly first for best adhesion, and maybe this also contributed in the finish.
Cheers.
MD

Interesting idea he had about pouring a quart of paint in each wheel. You'd sure want them to be level.

What grit and type of sandblast media did you use?

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Arne2 Thank you for the tip regarding the lug seats.

And thanks to all for the comments, I will do some 7jX15 and 9jX15 that I have for a future project this weekend, and this time I will do them with the polished lip like the ones that Magnus does.
MD

I want to send my wheels to your painting friend!

Do you have a link to the Magnus blog post?

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Here is the link to Magnus Walker"s blog where he talks about the process, it does not go into a lot of details here but I know he uses paint on the petals as well. The end result of the his grayish petals is a result of his own mix. Harvey Weidman's true anodizing ends up whiter so I decided to follow an object that I had on hand and that had white anodizing on it to determine my mix. I believe there are many hues to the anodizing since every picture you find in the web of the RSR fuchs seems a little different to the next, so I thought that the hue did not matter as much as the texture and the reflectiveness of the surface to imitate as well as I could an anodized piece.

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Nice work on the silver. Did you immerse the wheels in paint or tape/mask/spray?

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I tried to immerse the first wheel (I had them all prep'd for it) and I ran into all sorts of trouble I did not expect. The paint bubbled in the pouring distorting the edges, the taped underside collapsed because the catalyzer in the paint ate away the tape's adhesive and the paint reacted differently along the top edge as it rose up, making the top line distorted. I decided it was a technique I needed much more experimenting with, so I compromised by tape-masking the remaining three wheels as well as re-doing the first one from scratch to paint it conventionally.

When masking off the petals and rim how do you get the tape formed on the petals like magnus did? It looks like you almost have to mask with tape and then shape with a blade. The rim looks workable but the petal curves and radials looks very hard to do.