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Help with paint scheme on race car..... #669802 04/14/10 04:59 PM 04/14/10 04:59 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma silverfish OP super stock
silverfish OP super stock Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma	My 72 Duster Top Sportsman car (see signature) is in the body shop to get repaired from a wall mishap from last year. Well long story short the body shop can't duplicate the candy green paint that was on it and is going to have to paint the whole car. So its basically a blank canvas now! So should I just go back exactly the same(without candy paint) or should I completely change everything on it? I'm lost! How do you come up with a good paint scheme? Anybody got any ideas for me???

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: silverfish] #669803 04/14/10 05:08 PM 04/14/10 05:08 PM
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 6,257 acworth / N. georgia - south e... cheapstreetdustr master
cheapstreetdustr master Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 6,257 acworth / N. georgia - south e...	since i have looked at almost every color green out there for my duster... i can say..if you go with green ..house of colors has a killer series of greens that are not candies..but look as good.. you may be able to go with one of them. fwiw..iam partial to ol school prostock looking paint jobs on dusters... i have always been attracted to your paint/car though is there damage to the area above the door handle on the car.. if now..just do the bottom half of both sides and leave the hood/roof/trunk..and panel the sides. fwiw. cheapst. 365" Iron J heads,,3480lbs best 1.39 60ft on SS springs.10.54,124 mph ...6.67 1/8th et.average 60fts 1.46 w/ small cam &.063 no2 pill tagged & insured [image][/image]

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: cheapstreetdustr] #669804 04/14/10 05:21 PM 04/14/10 05:21 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma silverfish OP super stock
silverfish OP super stock Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma	Quote: since i have looked at almost every color green out there for my duster... i can say..if you go with green ..house of colors has a killer series of greens that are not candies..but look as good.. you may be able to go with one of them. fwiw..iam partial to ol school prostock looking paint jobs on dusters... i have always been attracted to your paint/car is there damage to the area above the door handle on the car.. if now..just do the bottom half of both sides and leave the hood/roof/trunk..and panel the sides. fwiw. cheapst. He had to try to match the house of kolors organic green candy on it because the quarter panel was toast. Couldn't make it look right, it ended up blotchy. The whole car is painted green right now but blotchy all over because he can't get the candy to do right for him. I don't know what to do. I like blue personally but not for sure on that either....

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: silverfish] #669805 04/14/10 05:26 PM 04/14/10 05:26 PM
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,067 Orlando Florida blown572dart master
blown572dart master Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,067 Orlando Florida	Ask Dave he will say the same BLACK

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: silverfish] #669806 04/14/10 05:28 PM 04/14/10 05:28 PM
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 8,526 Tenn. jrwoodjoe master
jrwoodjoe master Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 8,526 Tenn.	I would think if he's having trouble and the green is blotchy, then candy blue is going to end up blotchy also. I can't recall the actual name but the new viper (snake skin green - I think) looks really good with silver. I like your old scheme so maybe do a variation of it with those colors. Joe 65 Barracuda 70 Challenger

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: jrwoodjoe] #669807 04/14/10 05:34 PM 04/14/10 05:34 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma silverfish OP super stock
silverfish OP super stock Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma	Yeah I've seen that snake skin green...its pretty cool. Whatever color I do...green, blue, whatever it won't be candy. Just a basic metallic color or something. Everyone seems to dig the scheme it already had on it so I may just go back with it with a slight variation. I didn't really ever care for the scheme but I guess I might be the only one!

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: blown572dart] #669808 04/14/10 05:37 PM 04/14/10 05:37 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma silverfish OP super stock
silverfish OP super stock Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma	Quote: Ask Dave he will say the same BLACK I hear ya! Black is definitely beautiful....but sooooo hard to keep clean!

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: silverfish] #669809 04/14/10 06:01 PM 04/14/10 06:01 PM
Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,927 Seaford, Va Kindafast top fuel
Kindafast top fuel Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,927 Seaford, Va	House of Color is a pain in the you know what. I have found a new Candy that will work great with a white or silver base. It is called Carisma.I think it is made by BASF and it shoots great and looks great. Get your shop to check it out. Last edited by KINDAFAST; 04/14/10 06:02 PM. 6.50 @105.26

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: silverfish] #669810 04/14/10 06:05 PM 04/14/10 06:05 PM
Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,067 Orlando Florida blown572dart master
blown572dart master Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,067 Orlando Florida	Quote: Quote: Ask Dave he will say the same BLACK I hear ya! Black is definitely beautiful....but sooooo hard to keep clean! No kidding

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: blown572dart] #669811 04/14/10 06:51 PM 04/14/10 06:51 PM
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Spode enthusiast Joined: Dec 2009 Posts: 242 Upland, California	I like the way it looks now

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: silverfish] #669812 04/14/10 06:54 PM 04/14/10 06:54 PM
Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 9,366 Lehigh Acres, Florida rickstershemi master
rickstershemi master Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 9,366 Lehigh Acres, Florida	Quote: My 72 Duster Top Sportsman car (see signature) is in the body shop to get repaired from a wall mishap from last year. Well long story short the body shop can't duplicate the candy green paint that was on it and is going to have to paint the whole car. So its basically a blank canvas now! So should I just go back exactly the same(without candy paint) or should I completely change everything on it? I'm lost! How do you come up with a good paint scheme? Anybody got any ideas for me??? I like it as is also....what's it run...???? Rickster

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: rickstershemi] #669813 04/14/10 11:15 PM 04/14/10 11:15 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma silverfish OP super stock
silverfish OP super stock Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma	Quote: Quote: My 72 Duster Top Sportsman car (see signature) is in the body shop to get repaired from a wall mishap from last year. Well long story short the body shop can't duplicate the candy green paint that was on it and is going to have to paint the whole car. So its basically a blank canvas now! So should I just go back exactly the same(without candy paint) or should I completely change everything on it? I'm lost! How do you come up with a good paint scheme? Anybody got any ideas for me??? I like it as is also....what's it run...???? Rickster Don't know for sure yet! Put a new motor combo in it and the mishap with the wall happened on the first pass. It went 1.13 in 60' on just motor before the accident. It should run 5.0s on motor in the 1/8. We are gonna spray it with a fogger a little bit and try to get some 4.60s out of it. We are going to run in a series that runs off of a 4.70 index.

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: silverfish] #669814 04/14/10 11:26 PM 04/14/10 11:26 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 20,789 A collage of whims topside Too Many Posts
topside Too Many Posts Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 20,789 A collage of whims	As a general rule, I like a color scheme to work with the lines of the car; someone already mentioned vintage PS schemes, which often worked with the side contours. As for the blotchiness, that sounds like a pressure or application problem, though I've never sprayed that particular paint. There are a lot of modern car colors to choose from, but formulation & coverage is sometimes an issue. It may be that you need to work with another painter. If you can get your hands on the "what's new" issues of National Dragster, there are a lot of ideas you can find there, too.

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: topside] #669815 04/14/10 11:33 PM 04/14/10 11:33 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma silverfish OP super stock
silverfish OP super stock Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 858 Oklahoma	Here is what I have come up with so far..... Change the green to an electric blue metallic. Lose the wavy checkered flag. Keep the yellow to tangerine fade on the bottom. Keep the stripes basically the same except change the colors on them to silver on top and purple on bottom. Do you guys think that would look good? I just don't like the checkered flag for some reason?? I also just like blue a lot better than green. And the black MOPAR letters will be gone also. Its not much different than it is now just basically changing the colors. Any thoughts??? I just wish I could find a way to see what it would look like first....

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: silverfish] #669816 04/15/10 08:39 AM 04/15/10 08:39 AM
Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,564 St. Clair Shores, Michigan bigsbigelow pro stock
bigsbigelow pro stock Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,564 St. Clair Shores, Michigan	What about a fade like this but with candy green instead? Ryan "Bigs" '73 Duster (BLKDUST) - Black, 100% factory sheet metal, flat hood, 346 cid, J Heads, and a bench seat. http://s268.photobucket.com/albums/jj1/bigsbigelow/ Best to date: 12.40 @ 109 mph

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: silverfish] #669817 04/15/10 09:03 AM 04/15/10 09:03 AM
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Hemiruss mopar Joined: Nov 2009 Posts: 579 Ft.Myers,Florida	Here's my old Arrow paint scheme,I like different colors/stripes,just my 5926697-100_1654.JPG (92 downloads)

Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: Hemiruss] #669818 04/15/10 09:04 AM 04/15/10 09:04 AM
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Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... [Re: Hemiruss] #669819 04/15/10 03:51 PM 04/15/10 03:51 PM
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 34,909 S.E. South Dakota ! bigdad Still Posting A Lot
bigdad Still Posting A Lot Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 34,909 S.E. South Dakota !	Scott Scott Brown design can work up some ideas for you http://www.scottbrowngraphicdesigns.com/home.htm The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths invite a beating.Proverbs 18:6

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Re: Help with paint scheme on race car..... #669821 04/15/10 08:13 PM 04/15/10 08:13 PM
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