Thanks.

As to the flush with taillights... the bottom will be closer in the production piece, and it will follow a little closer (remember the prototype is not attached to the trunk, it was just laying there, and I was afraid to step back to take a picture for fear it would fall!)

That said, near the top of the taillight, we had to make a choice. The piece either had to go straight, to "fill in"" the arc in the trunk, or it could have followed the taillight, but then would have either had to be bent on the viewing side, or gotten real thin at the top. Given that the piece is plastic (and I don't like it to get too thin), and the overall asethetics, it was decided to go straight, and we gave up following the light's contour precisely on the outside of the part, and instead get the inside contour correct for proper fitment.

I know that sounds kind of complicated (it does to me, and I just wrote it!) but it was just a compromise we had to make to get the overall effect we wanted. Doing it the other way would have meant making compromises that would have changed the overall appearance, which we weren't prepared to give up.

 

I like it,just may be my next mod.

 

Thanks everyone. After talking with Brad about it, I started another thread now that we've moved from photoshops and sketches to the real world. That, and this thread seemed to get lost easy since it was moved and stuff before. Anyway, the new thread is:

http://forums.bradbarnett.net/index.php?showtopic=29153

I'll still check this one, but am hoping to move the discussion over there now that we're moving closer to production.

Thanks everyone who posted to this thread, both for and against it.