I seem to remember someone had used a PC program to do the letter/number layout of their homemade clock fascias. Then printed on acetate and sprayed the back a pretty colour.

Question is: anyone know what the program was?

Thanks,

James

You could use Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator

I used AutoCAD to do the dials on a friends Cavalier:

I would agree with Corel draw.

Very powerful graphics creation/editing program. Once you learn how to use it.

David

On my old Fiesta (1.4 Ghia - 0-60 in 9.98 secs timed on a mobile phone to an ex-girlfirend with a stopwatch) I took the dials off and scanned them in and kept them as TIFF files, then reversed the colours to make white dials - kept the same numerals and stuff - looked great!!!

That was until the winter when the inkjet paper Id printed it out on curled a bit...ah well, its crushed now anyway

A CAD package can lay them out too, if you've got/know one.

Send me a pic and some measurements and I'll lay them out in Corel for you if you want mate. Can send them back as Corel file or any image file OR I can get them printe onto vinyl ready to stick on -will have to get a price though.

Mark,

That looks fantastic- any more details on how you did it/what you printed it on/with?

Chunkie,
Thanks for the offer mate- I may be in touch!

Thanks,
James

Simple enough really - I just did an image search on google for some cavalier dials, imported it into cad and scaled it up to match the measurements off the dials we had. Once I had the general outline and a few lines so the readings were right I could draw everything in the way we wanted - as you can see we even converted the speedo to the latest km/h readings.

As far as sticking the paper down, just use moderately thin paper so the light can come through, and glue it down behind the plastic that's already there so you don't see that either. That's about it - we printed it on the laser printer at home, but that's just what we have - I'm sure an inkjet would work just as well.

Hope that makes sense - right now I'm regretting not taking more pics .

Mark

And whatever chunkie charges, I will do it for 4 5ths of that .

MArk

Actually an inkjet might be a problem. A lot of non photographic inks are photo sensitive so fade over time.

I won't charge for doing it, I ain't that stingy!!! The guy I use for printed vinyl will charge for that - I get trade though!