Idea’s for Paint Project Car
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Alright heres a few pics for now, i’m trying to get more.. My camera is being a pain in the ass, I’m having a really hard time capturing the effect on it. I’m gonna try and get it outside shortly. I’m pretty happy with it overall, I decided to keep it a bit simpler with the way the color flowed & took jims advice on staying with the same metallics. It is really dark on the top & blends seemlessly into a light silver, then into a pearl white. I kept the white down lower then I originally planned on. Being my first attempt & it only being a 99 sunfire I can’t complain. BTW, much of it got taped & next to no r&i’s…. I’m not that fussy with my own cars,especially being a 99 sunfire!! I’m confident the paint job will still outlast the car! Anyhow, here:
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[img]http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/220/dsc00978kq5.jpg[/img]ya should paint the mirrors now:P ur gonna have ta buy some wheels looks like it faded pretty nice for ya though bet it shows better in your pics outsideB) B) B)
Looking good, lets see it out in the sun:)
Wow, I got it outside & man it looks really good!!! Any trace of blending I could see inside has just disappeared. The color flips alot as you walk around it, the pictures don’t really do it justice.
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[img]http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4246/dsc00987ke4.jpg[/img]Guess im the only one with bad eyes here.. I cant see it jimmo.. Must be me and my monitor. The hood looks darker, but that is all I can tell;) Well we posted at the same time looks like brother:lol:
looks pretty good there jimmo. looks like you brought the darker color down a little more than you wanted to though. at least you took the lights out;) trunk musta been tough to paint with that spoiler on.
overall its a nice effect. you should be happy:)Your color choices might just be subtle enough that I won’t dog ‘ya for pimping out your grandma’s car. :unsure:
[b]bloverby wrote:[/b]
[quote]Your color choices might just be subtle enough that I won’t dog ‘ya for pimping out your grandma’s car. :unsure:[/quote]lol! I know, its a bit of a practice car. As a collision guy I don’t get to play like this much so it was a nice to mess around. Hopefully the next set of wheels i come across will be worth doing something to. Now I’ve at least gotten my feet wet with this sorta thing so I’ll go a bit more extreme on my next project.
Sorry about the pics Bk. Its is subtle, but still in person its quite noticeable. I had a few guys come in from the dealership next door & just circled it wondering what was going on. I never mentioned anything even about painting it, they were just drawn to it wondering how the color changed so much as they walked around it. I eventually pointed out if you stand directly behind or in front you can see how the color differed from the top to the bottom.
I did kinda chicken out a bit and play with safe, easy colors. All in all I’m happy with the way it turned out, maybe I need to practice some flames on the front. :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:
btw. The way I ended up doing this was with a dark graphite metallic. I slowly added a very light silver until it was nothing but. fluffed a bit of 3-stage white along the bottom & called er a day. I did have to grab a few colors here and their and go back for touching up.
[b]ding wrote:[/b]
[quote]looks pretty good there jimmo. looks like you brought the darker color down a little more than you wanted to though. at least you took the lights out;) trunk musta been tough to paint with that spoiler on.
overall its a nice effect. you should be happy:)[/quote]I know, I felt guilty painting with the spoiler on even knowing its my own car. The reason for it was because the last jerk panelbonded it on and I didn’t wanna open that can of worms. I did want to!
ya the shame you must feel now must be unbearable:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Just cracked a Labatt’s Blue, I’m over it !!
Congratulations Jimmo, you just created the illusion of salt spray on a dark gray car, LOL! But seriously, it looks great. I did a similar experiment on a Cavalier one time that went horribly wrong. Instead of respraying it, I just cleared it and sold it. Of all the cars I have done, this hideous looking thing drives by the shop about 6 times a day,LOL!
well i couldnt post this on the off topic so im hijacking this one:woohoo: :woohoo:
ding got me in trouble last night an i gotta do new flooring in the living room:blink: :blink: :blush:
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this is i think what were gonna try its some new stuff
the stove that dings gonna help me move:P 😛 😛
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an the piano that will push any floorings warranty:evil: 👿 👿 👿
[img]http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s151/jackcarlson1965/017.jpg[/img]looks cozy;)
we are still debating over samples here:huh: :huh: :huh:
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