240zwannabe Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 that is awesome, thats a good blue with the grey. was it hard to do ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globerunner513 Posted June 24, 2006 Share Posted June 24, 2006 man, that looks sweeeeet. love the lines infront on the side and hood...really sets it off. imho. you should finish the camo on the side and bring it across the rear quarter too...kinda looks half done...but not bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrett76Zt Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 I would absolutely LOVE to do this Camo job to my Z! Minus all the graphics . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted June 25, 2006 Author Share Posted June 25, 2006 That red camo is pretty hot. As far as bringing the stripe all the way to the back, my plan was to mimic the zzzap! graphics package, just change the colors. I like the line stopping where it does, so if you want to see it go all the way to the back, you'll just have to do it to yours I suppose. Then you can join the drift armada....maybe I should make a logo for it...Also, the actual painting was easy, just cut a few shapes out of cardboard for stencils, mask off what you want to spray, and go to town. All told, It might have taken me two and a half hours. A trick to keeping your lines straight: Notice the ruler in the supply picture. I taped all the way down the character line at the bottom of the door first, then just made sure every foot or so that my top tape line was always 6" from the bottom line. The 1/4" pinstripe line I just eyeballed, and it shows if you see it in person. But given the state of the car, and the nature of the rattle can paint job, I'm actually really satisfied with the finished result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingnutthehutt Posted June 25, 2006 Share Posted June 25, 2006 Nice work, Veritech. I gotta say, I was pretty skeptical at first too. But it looks pretty tough. Very WRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted June 26, 2006 Author Share Posted June 26, 2006 I'm driving up to ATL to pick up some rear window louvers from OTM this weekend, and i'll probably continue the stripe on those too. I'll post some more pictures once that is done and installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted June 26, 2006 Share Posted June 26, 2006 that will look pretty cool. sorta like the American tanks...they have the louvers on the side with camo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewievette Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 Hmm... I might be joining that drift armada you speak of, I love your camo! I'll see what I can come up with. What is the name of that blue? I might have to use that too. any ideas for my orange car? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 *translated from hutt-ese* {At last we have the mighty Chewbacca} Rock! Somebody's come over to the dark side! So is that how your car actually looks in your sig? Are you going to do the zzap, or are you going to do a different scheme? If you want, I'll try to come up with something for you, but i'd stay away from the blue. As soon as I get a drift armada logo, I'll post it so the stencil will be really easy to make. Should just be able to print it and cut it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewievette Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 My sig is exactly how my car currently looks ...mostly. I just posted a worklog in misc that shows current progress. But yes, it is very orange/faded red. I was thinking something a bit different, I dont like to copy others. I dont want to use the blue on my car but it looks good so I want to try it for something else. Tiger stripes comes to mind... I'm going to go doodle and see what I can come up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewievette Posted June 27, 2006 Share Posted June 27, 2006 I've got a pretty cool looking tiger stripes idea but I need to get some colored pencils to show the colors. I found a place where I can get some safety orange paint for pretty cheap I might just go over the whole body with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 Hold that thought chewie, i've got like 10 drawings here at work that I'm going to throw up here when I get home, so before you buy any paint, let me know what you think. I'm kind of thinking that you'll need to ditch the flat orange basecoat regardless, it's really hard to do anything with it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 I have no idea why these images are so gigantic, but the file sizes are actually pretty small, less than 1024kb... BRE camo style... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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veritech-z Posted June 27, 2006 Author Share Posted June 27, 2006 I admit, this one is a little silly, but if the car was fast enough... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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