OlderThanMe Posted June 16, 2006 Author Share Posted June 16, 2006 here is the latest...freehand once again...J/K I traced over a photo of zlalomz car. The drivers side bucket is a little off. Drew it while watching the patriot last night... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 I definitely don't think I'm likeing the rising sun fenders...but the drawing is really coming along! I got to thinking about the street camo, and then I remembered the zzzap car somebody found a few days ago...and this is what i came up with at work today: I may actually do it tomorrow, if i get bored enough... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted June 16, 2006 Author Share Posted June 16, 2006 ok so we should ban you from hybridz for tomorrow so you will be really bored...lol I think you should do some of those perpendicular faded yellow stripes...it gives that industrial look... I don't really like the rising sun either...it won't flow well. maybe on the roof... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 Well, i'd have to wait for the weather to clear up...it's totally raining like crazy right now, so unless it clears up, it doesn't look too good...Also, my car doesn't actually have ZG flares or louvers, but I thought they might look cool with that particular paint scheme. I think I need a whale tale too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olie05 Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 OTM what are those lines on the fenders? they look like veins... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted June 17, 2006 Author Share Posted June 17, 2006 yeah yeah...I am downloading the next version from my camera now...much much cleaner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted June 17, 2006 Author Share Posted June 17, 2006 veritech, I have some S30 louvers that I am not going to be using. give me an offer and I will get you the louvers that you need but they need to be painted...they are the metal ones with rounded corners instead of the triangle-type ones. There is a pic of them on page 1 of my worklog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 OTM, where are you located? I'm really on the cheap to free plan right now so if they are going to be too much, i'll probably have to pass...However, I've been reconsidering my former disdain of the hatch louvers, since i've heard they can help with the exhaust fume death I've been experiencing lately...Instead of a rising sun, how about a white car with a meatball that starts over the left front fender bleeds over the hood? here is a really bad scan of a really quick sketch... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z-TARD Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 I'm really liking the idea of the rising sun paint job. Seeing it in a color sketch helps a lot. I still like the idea of using one of the rear wheels as the center point for the sun in the design. I've seen pictures of tires molded in colors, seems like something for the Honda crowd but it might prove useful for this paint job. Use a red rim, along with a red tire and then have the rays of the sun design radiating out from there. If nothing else, it'll sure spin up some of the old WWII vets. I've always though that this paint scheme would look cool on a Z too: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ON3GO Posted June 17, 2006 Share Posted June 17, 2006 Clifton has the rising sun paint job on his track 240Z turbo car.. i remember seeing pictures of it and loving it! mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted June 17, 2006 Author Share Posted June 17, 2006 here is the version I did last night. looks pretty cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted June 17, 2006 Author Share Posted June 17, 2006 yeah...good idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 Well, the weather was good, but I got caught up in 3 fast 3 furious fever, and my buddy pulled my wife and I out to go see that, and we ended up spending our day with him and his brother...I'm thinking that I'll try and get that paint on there sometime this week though. In the meantime, i've got some more random paint ideas (i could do these all day {and usually do!}): this one is supposed to look like a zero fighter plane... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z-TARD Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 here is the version I did last night. looks pretty cool. I like the hood ducting on that one, flows really well with the hood bulge. Your flares are looking really good now too. Keep up the good work! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z-TARD Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 this one is supposed to look like a zero fighter plane... That looks mean as hell. I never would have though an Am-6 Zero paint job would look good on a Z, but it definitely does. How about doing the whole nose in black? That way you could airbrush in some exhaust streaks from the radial engine onto the doors Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted June 18, 2006 Author Share Posted June 18, 2006 Z-tard, Thank you! it took about half an hour to get those scoops done and that pic was about half way through sketching them. I have also added viper type fender louvers. The airdam I drew is similar to the converntional polyurethane ones but the vertical part scoops air to go through the radiator since the air won't be getting stuck in the engine bay. The ducting design I have there will not work with a distributor so that is another reason to go distributorless. what you need is a little yellow on the front of the hood. Maybe a 2in. wide strip of it. Or maybe on the front of the door going vertically. time to go to the store and get some olive drab for your Z...who would have thought of putting olive drab on a Z...lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 I was pioneering the use of olive drab on my z years ago! Or rather I would have been, if it had been available...instead, I had to settle for a really crappy shade of Wal-Mart green...anyway, imagine this: exhaust and all! OTM,I can see that you are clearly not ready for my vehicle paint scheme jack-assery...I think you are almost there, perhaps with more shaolin training you will be able to think outside the bun on my level...(those are all jokes, by the way!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted June 18, 2006 Author Share Posted June 18, 2006 Yeah yeah...I have been seriously been thinking about the shark face idea...The first thing I thought when I saw this old black sportscar sitting in a driveway with toys all over it was "that car looks like a shark!" so I may be doing some teeth around the mouth of my Z but I still can't get over the camo idea...it is sort of a love-hate kind of thing. The relationship I have had with my car has been that...love-hate...but now that I am making the new wiring harness it will be much more love thanm hate then I will start playing with paint schemes. I want to get an old hood to cut up and make the big vents but still fit around all teh stck stuff. I will have a welder by my summer break next year so I will probably be angling the radiator and doing all of that fun modification stuff. Veritech, I think you should make a custom header that just dumps out the side of your car...that would be nice. Then you could have one of those electric exhaust cutouts feed into a regular exhaust with a hidden rear tip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted June 18, 2006 Author Share Posted June 18, 2006 what would be fun is to do the olive green, lift the Z about 3 inches, rally tires, and a light rack on the roof...and a bull bar on the front... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z-TARD Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 To the best of my knowlege, nobody has done a V8 rally Z yet. That would be sweet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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