Inspiration Needed For New Look "HELP" " IDEAS" Please

[yogibear]

Right all my RX is in the body shop to get a respray. Its a pearl white at the moment that no body shop has been able to match so im gonna get the whole car resprayed something new. Had several ideas that have gone out the window. Found a nice Cobolt Blue but it didnt go with the alloys. Posted a couple ideas below. Want it to look classy and unique witout looking tacky if that makes sense.

Kind of going along these lines with this idea



This is the body shops idea, they seam to think that the yellow bits would look great silver but im not sure at all. The top pic is my car so I borrowed a couple of pics of RAW\'s car , cos he takes better pics than me
Right any ideas anyone???

[G@NDY]

I like that idea of the yellow/gold body with the black roof and boot. But in my opinion i wouldnt have any black on the front bumper and have all the bonnet black, instead of that point thing, hope that makes sense:p

[J4P RX]

Dont do two tone.  At least not like that.

If you really must, get it sprayed one colour and use vinyl so at least it can come off again.

Id go for a manufactures paint and not something mixed especially.  Clio Cup blue is similar to the RE-A cars.  Think its called championship blue but not sure on that.

[elford_tim]

Id go for a manufactures paint and not something mixed especially.  Clio Cup blue is similar to the RE-A cars.  Think its called championship blue but not sure on that.

If it\'s the old French racing blue - same colour as the racing cars of the thirties, and quite a lot of Alpines - it\'s fairly easy to match that to a packet of Gauloises .

Nope, I\'m not kidding - legend has it that that\'s how they checked the colour at the Bugatti factory.

[D2BBA]

Sorry to hear the cvracked bumper has lead to a full re-spray bud  Thats the same position i was in last year when I hit that rabbit and the bodyshop couldnt match my pearl.  Still, once the cars done it\'ll be the better for it!!!:)

Quite like the bright gold idea.  Ive seen a House of Kolor or similar chrome effect paint, and if you could get the gold to look like that...mad!

Failing that the RE-A blue is very nice, and as the lads say its nigh on the same as existing UK paint codes (and therefore alot cheaper, easier to apply and easy to match!)

Good luck bud!

Chris

[yogibear]

Well im gonna do some more photo shoping tonite when I get in ill post what I come up with later on tonite.

Its hard coming up with a really good idea\'s when ive got Chrisis and Ians to compete against . Have you seen your car in Fast Car today chris???

Niall

[D1 WTF]

dont do this idea as this is what i was planning :reallymad

[yogibear]

Thats no good. was keen on the RE blue because ive never seen any painted like that in this country. Has anyone got anyother ideas???

[Travis]

Thats the thing with pearls candy\'s etc etc i scratch an ya feked!!well most of the time,i did my supe in Daytona blue pearl nice colour,i did put a bit gold pearl in the laquer,but all in all it would look great on a rex:)

[Hayward North]

Be adventurous like me

BTW its all paint and all my own work.

http://img173.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img1770om2.jpg

[yogibear]

The blue is almost the same is what I had origionally settled on. Cobolt Candy Pearl. Changed my mind because I found an RX7 painted in it allready , with gold alloys as well and it just looked wrong.

The direction im kind of thinking now is possibly yellow and black with some black graphics .  

Want some thing eye catching but not tacky if that makes sense. Ill post my new ideas in the next couple of days

[Travis]

The blue is almost the same is what I had origionally settled on. Cobolt Candy Pearl. Changed my mind because I found an RX7 painted in it allready , with gold alloys as well and it just looked wrong.

The direction im kind of thinking now is possibly yellow and black with some black graphics .  

Want some thing eye catching but not tacky if that makes sense. Ill post my new ideas in the next couple of days

heres some

[yogibear]

This was last nights effort

[Hayward North]

Oh i like that.
Top tip is soften the edges of the graphics with another dark colour like gun metal and tip the spikes or it will look like stickers.

[D2BBA]

Well im gonna do some more photo shoping tonite when I get in ill post what I come up with later on tonite.

Its hard coming up with a really good idea\'s when ive got Chrisis and Ians to compete against . Have you seen your car in Fast Car today chris???

Niall

Ooh Fastcar, my mate mentioned something bout that.  I\'ll get a copy

The yellow is looking good fella.  The only problem, from my own trawling through all of the yellow colour charts when I wanted mine re-sprayed in yellow, is you have to go for something like House of Kolor to get a really interesting colour:yes

Graphics look good too!

Chris