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budget eye lids

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Hey everyone.

Here I made some eye lids from some window tint that I had left over when I tinted my subaru liberty, on the headlight the tint is the same colour as my FTO so I guess this will only work if your FTO is black and tint is the same colour, It gives the FTO some attitude.

Here are some pics, my car is also a bit dirty.
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I can't say that i'm a big fan, FTO lights look plenty mean the way they are :)
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i rekon it'd look pretty mean if u curve it abit more to go with the shape :)

good work!
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jonowong wrote:i rekon it'd look pretty mean if u curve it abit more to go with the shape :)

good work!
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Samson wrote:
jonowong wrote:i rekon it'd look pretty mean if u curve it abit more to go with the shape :)

good work!
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I agree, but I find it a bit difficult to say for sure from those photos. Maybe some better quality ones would help, and not ones filled with distracting glare and reflections :)
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My good digital camera broke, this is my not so good camera, I tried to get rid of the glare by parking it undercover coz the pics that I took when it was parked outside, you could see the sky in the reflection.
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bigpitty1 wrote:My good digital camera broke, this is my not so good camera, I tried to get rid of the glare by parking it undercover coz the pics that I took when it was parked outside, you could see the sky in the reflection.
Yeah, can't win 'em all.

Good thing to try with digital cameras is take the photo at dusk time, when the light is still present but not as harsh. You tend to get enough light and little glare.

You can also try doing it at night, and if the flash is too harsh (which is usually the case with crappy cameras); take a small square of grease proof paper -- something semi-transparent -- and stick it over the flash by using two small bits of blue tack to hold each side down.

This usually diffuses the flash enough to give a cleaner light source -- much the same as using a cheap light box.
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Post by Blasphemy »

My car had some very budget eyelids when I bought it. The Japanese guy had used white electrical tape.

What to do when you buy a car from a ricer:
* Remove the electrical tape eyelids
* Take out the loose amp (with all the wiring on top of the carpet and power running out the bonnet panel and through the passenger door)
* Cut the power to the blue led nozzles

Oh so much better. :wink:
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