trying to decide on the colour scheme of my car in readiness to order bodywork.
there are a few options of preferred colour choice within my family so before i drive my mrs nuts asking "what about this colour, what about that
colour" etc etc
please give your opinion on the following suggestions.
the car is a Haynes Roadster CEC (if that makes any difference on colour choice??)
thanks
andy
ps my original colour choice of black/silver has changed from listening to peoples opinion on dark base colours.
if the option of none of the above is your choice then please give suggestions of colour choice.
ta andy
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100% black always
White body with black wings and aero
I was thinking orange or black but am now thinking azure blue with black wings? Always loved that colour on Elises.
Rich
purple or pink
keep the idea,s coming ,
but which purple Mark?
cheers
andy
PINK?????
Nooooooooooooo !!!
unless you pay me to have pink!!!
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Heres Mine - you cant get much more black than this!!
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that really is black,
looks very nice, similar to my first thoughts on colour scheme i was gonna go for , tho i had planned on having silver viper stripes &
chromed/nickel plated wishbones & roll bar.
hmmm,,, still like the sound of it too.
andy
Black on black, with subtle hints of black and some black trim, with a subtle motif of black running throughout.
Bit of shiny too, just for contrast.
cadburys purple 
with matt purple stripes
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Originally posted by blakep82
cadburys purple
with matt purple stripes
ooh purple flip's cool. are you thinking green/purple flip?
if i ever get around to it, i'm going to paint my chassis matt cadburys purple, like the new dairy milk wrappers. still not decided on the body
yet though
the problem with black is it reflects every colour. think about it, it actually makes a lot of sense. white bodywork won't seem to reflect white
light as much, but black will reflect everything. your bodywork needs to be almost perfect to get away with it i think
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yeah i,m thinking the purple / green flip, tho not totally sure how to get it done, is it a case of the base colour being say green with the purple in
a laquer sprayed over the top that creates the flip? is it expensive?
the choice of colour is so vital to get right as once on then its a big job to redo if its wrong.
andy
I seem to remember that it's just one layer of paint, but that it has stuff in it to refract light differently (at different wavelengths) at
different angles.
Downside is, it's really, really, bloody expensive.
A bit of googling found this, which gives some idea of price.
sadly not as easy as that. well it is, but still very complicated (?)
you can buy paint that does it, not sure how much it costs though.
you can also buy a sort of crystal powder that does it too. you spray a base coat of colour. the base coat you use makes a big difference to the end
result, but i think black gives the best result (i guess it depends on who ever said that and their definition of 'best'...) then you spray
a clear laquer with the powder in it, then a clear laquer over the top.
but now i can't find who sold it... 
was something like £70 for 16g of the powder, but i don't know how much that covered
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Originally posted by Staple balls
I seem to remember that it's just one layer of paint, but that it has stuff in it to refract light differently (at different wavelengths) at different angles.
Downside is, it's really, really, bloody expensive.
A bit of googling found this, which gives some idea of price.
ah, heres the other one
http://www.alsacorp.com/paints.htm
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Originally posted by blakep82
sadly not as easy as that. well it is, but still very complicated (?)
you can buy paint that does it, not sure how much it costs though.
you can also buy a sort of crystal powder that does it too. you spray a base coat of colour. the base coat you use makes a big difference to the end result, but i think black gives the best result (i guess it depends on who ever said that and their definition of 'best'...) then you spray a clear laquer with the powder in it, then a clear laquer over the top.
but now i can't find who sold it...
no i wouldn,t go that far
& i don,t want it to look like a chav,s car , just want something subtle but striking, more a case of you notice the paintwork when you get up
close to the car if i go for the flip colour,
cheers
andy
Its been posted before but it might be of some use?
http://westfield-world.com/flash_changer.html
Mark
Mark
thats great thankyou, & simple enough for a computer numpty like me to use, i ain,t got a clue how to use those "paint" programs on a
computer.
cheers for that link.
andy
well so far the favourite seems to be bright orange, but then does that mean there,s lots of bright orange cars about????
Mark has given me a link that i can play around with colour schemes so this will help me see the finished look.
cheers
andy
this is my effort
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I personally think that with such a small car you want the bodywork to be as bright as possible, so that you get noticed easily when out and about. A
screaming bike engine will also help too...........
Phil
I´m quite happy with my colours.
Soren S2
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Originally posted by Hellfire
I personally think that with such a small car you want the bodywork to be as bright as possible, so that you get noticed easily when out and about. A screaming bike engine will also help too...........
Phil
Tele magenta with black wings.......
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Originally posted by Triton
Tele magenta with black wings.......
colour of my bodywork has now been confirmed
i call it Tango Orange
should get seen easy enough with that.
thanks for your help on the poll.
collecting bodywork very soon 
cheers
andy
awesomeness
See my avatar for what I call tango orange.
The car even has the nickname Tango