New design painted & tinted tails for 300

**402 Motoring** · 12-25-2005, 12:39 PM

Well we've tu-toned a Magnum tail and a Charger tail so here is the painted & tinted version for you 300 owners. What do you guys think?

**Jaak** · 12-25-2005, 12:42 PM

I think it's pretty freakin' hot looking!

**402 Motoring** · 12-25-2005, 12:51 PM

Yeah I thought it would give the 300 a little different look.

**Davesatdoasisbar** · 12-26-2005, 12:07 AM

To hard to give an honest opinion. The picture is too jagged making the paint job look bad. Maybe a higher res picture?

**DMAG** · 12-26-2005, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by Davesatdoasisbar

To hard to give an honest opinion. The picture is too jagged making the paint job look bad. Maybe a higher res picture?

If you are viewing it in IE, click on the box at the bottom right hand corner, it will make the pic fullsize...

If you are using Firefox, just click on the picture and it will make it fullsize.

The resolution is pretty good once you see them without your browser down-sizing them.

**Davesatdoasisbar** · 12-26-2005, 12:26 AM

Thanks for the tip DMAG.

Work itself looks great, like the concept and how it follows the line flow but maybe too subtle for me for having gone through all that work.

**GoofyTimL** · 12-26-2005, 12:28 AM

Personal opinion... The darkened tails with the painted sides in silver don't do anything for me. On the other hand, I might like the painted sides with no change to the OEM tails. Got any pictures like that Ernie? Also, I think I'd like the painted side better if it had more of an angled break instead of the curve down. For example... I think it would look sharper if it had an angle that matched more of the reverse angle of the body line that goes down the front and then transitions to go around the rear bumper. Am I making sense?

**Davesatdoasisbar** · 12-26-2005, 12:39 AM

Ernie

do/can you do more of detailed design or is that more detailed and tedious/time consuming/higher priced then what you want too address at this time?

**Drew's RT** · 12-26-2005, 12:50 AM

I like em a lot...

**402 Motoring** · 12-26-2005, 01:18 AM

When I started painting the tails for the Charger, Magnum and now the 300 I try to enhanced the body lines the designers gave them. On the 300 I used the body line in the tail lamp that extends from the quarter panel into the bumper. I don't see any other way to do that lamp. You can't paint the area where the light shines through that would really be bad. Dave what were you thinking?

**Davesatdoasisbar** · 12-26-2005, 01:39 AM

I was thinking taking a stencil design of whatever..say a rams head, the 3d type were there open areas of background around and inside the design. Apply the stencial, paint of tint over the entire light, then peel off the stencil leaving your full design on the light.
It would be almost like the designed pieces you buy and bolt over your tail lights but here you are actually painting that design on.

**402 Motoring** · 12-26-2005, 01:45 AM

Yeah I had already thought about that. I don't know how well it would work on a Magnum though. I think it would work well on a Charger since the face of the tail lamp is more vertical than the Magnum's.

**Davesatdoasisbar** · 12-26-2005, 01:57 AM

So it wasn't a no. The rest are just minor details.

**402 Motoring** · 12-26-2005, 02:00 AM

It shouldn't be a big deal. The hardest part is making the stencil. On the Magnum it would probably look better if it was placed over the turn signal cause it would be a more direct on view.