After acetone-ing the inevitable overspray... (I'm not much of a taper/painter
), and waiting for it to dry a bit, I masked off the hub for the silver painting.
I forgot to take a photo, but I had to do it in two halves because of the caliper being in the way. Kind of a pain, and the resulting paint job quality was not as good as I liked because of it. I may have to conquer my fear of removing brake components when I do the other wheels, as it would certainly make painting far easier.
I also painted the face of the hub (after stuffing paper towel scraps in the lug bolt holes first), because parts of it are visible around the wheels and it rusts badly.
I know there isn't supposed to be anything betwheen the wheel and the hub, but I cranked the wheel back on before the paint was fully cured, and there are some fine ridges on both parts that hopefully allow the paint to escape enough to make good contact. Anybody have an idea whether that's going to cause my wheel to fly off at some point?
The Duplicolor Aluminum was flashier than I thought it would be, but actually turned out to be a close match to the wheel alloy.
The result was a gratifiying difference compared to the original (of course I turned the hub to hide the drips in my paint job, hehe):