On his Brickshelf gallery, Crowkillers (Paul Boratko) has "Wheels Professionally Chromed and Color Tinted by Don Pierre http://www.coatofchrome.com ." Instead of settling for the usual, limited color selection of Light Bluish Gray or flat-Black wheels, the chromed wheels make his creations look REALLY SHARP. I like his Lego Technic Lamborghini Gallardo Racer in gold wheels:

Edited July 15, 201113 yr by DLuders

Those pretty darn cool. I have always been against painting parts, but for wheels that look like that, I will make an exception. I would like to know what kind of prices he was charged for chroming those and how long it takes to get them done and back. Paul could you please give us the scoop?

Offtopic: I see a new video for a new car.

They look very nice.

I have chromed a lot of parts in a factory for my collection. Just to add some information on the more and more parts availlable chromed, there are different techniques which result in completely different parts.

Spraypainting or depositioning (like mentioned here)

+ all parts basically possible

- limited wear and scratch resistance

- remains a bit mat compared to real chrome

Plating on plastics (a proces where the parts are truly chromed after being etched and provided with a layer of palladium to make them conductive for the electrical proces)

+ True chrome

+ very good scratch and wear resistance (basically higher than the ABS)

- tolerances suffer due to layer thickness

- only possible on true ABS parts, which not all Lego is.

I have used both, but the plated parts i like the most, because they are so beautifully shiny