<VV> More dash questions

[John Beck]

Been a while since I've had any of those out but IIRC, they don't need
to be very thick.  Any reason not to use photographic gel.  Comes in
every color imaginable.  Heat resistant.  Fade resistant.  A bit thin
but dirt cheap.  --J.B.

Roger Gault wrote:
> 
> Well, you can do what I did.  Go to Hobby Lobby, or whatever you've got
> that's equivalent.  Find some "Stained Glass Paint" in a color you like.  Go
> home, find something that came in a vacuformed plastic package and cut that
> package up into circles.  Sand both sides of the circles so they'll diffuse
> the light better and paint several coats of the $8.00 paint on them to get
> the right color.
> 
> Then, you'll have spent several hours and more money than you would have at
> Clarks, and you'll have some colored disks that, when put in the dash look
> almost bad enough to make you buy some from Clarks and pull the dash to
> replace them.
> 
> In my defense, I was in a hurry to put the dash back in.