Colour Advice

[FelixTRX]

Hey all,

This afternoon, my darling wife and I were driving around looking at blocks of land. Wait, it gets better! She got the Stag nose first into a driveway and decided to reverse out in a 3 point turn fashion, but went a bit too far and backed into a pile of gravel. Scraped the rear bar up, not terribly bad, so she tried again, and scraped the rear bar again, in a different spot this time!

So, along with fixing this minor damage, there is some other damage below the bump strip in other spots, and trying to colour match pearl white is going to be neigh-on impossible for me to do at home, soooooooooooo I was thinking of going 2 tone, with some kind of silvery metallic grey on the bottom half.

Can somebody please photochop a white S1 with the standard silver side strip and a 'gunmetal grey' (for a lack of better words) bottom half. I think it'll look good but if might look different in pictures than in my head.

Cheers, Greg.

[Tangles]

you got a sereis 1 pearl white??

I have some paint

easy to get made up, I went to Protec in SA - big paint place where I knew an insider (now in the mediteranians' sorry)

its two tins of seperate paint with proper detailed mixing instructions

hang on I'll grab them for the part numbers; I got them ready to touch up my rear bar (big 3qrtercircle-crack, was a spot repair in Japan that opened up again) and for my mirror repairs

1 tin is Code WK1 for 93-97 Nissan-Datsun "silky snow pearl" (group 2)

tint BC764 118.0grams

tint BC748 787.4grams

1000ml

2nd tin is Code G253 for BackgroundColours "grey" (group 1)

tint BC711 15.8grams

tint BC720 7.6grams

tint BC745 1081.6grams

tint BC787 15.4grams

1000ml

hope this helps, but sory I have to hold onto mine

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seen some pics of 2 tone Stags, not good. lol

unless you pick the right shade of colour I suppose, however Id do a full spray when it really needs it

[chuckie]

Hey all,

This afternoon, my darling wife and I were driving around looking at blocks of land. Wait, it gets better! She got the Stag nose first into a driveway and decided to reverse out in a 3 point turn fashion, but went a bit too far and backed into a pile of gravel. Scraped the rear bar up, not terribly bad, so she tried again, and scraped the rear bar again, in a different spot this time!

So, along with fixing this minor damage, there is some other damage below the bump strip in other spots, and trying to colour match pearl white is going to be neigh-on impossible for me to do at home, soooooooooooo I was thinking of going 2 tone, with some kind of silvery metallic grey on the bottom half.

Can somebody please photochop a white S1 with the standard silver side strip and a 'gunmetal grey' (for a lack of better words) bottom half. I think it'll look good but if might look different in pictures than in my head.

Cheers, Greg.

G`DAY Greg i have seen one in PERTH & i think it looked GOOD,if i see it around i will snap some photo`s & post them up,cheer`s chuckie.

[FelixTRX]

Thanks for the info guys! I've got a 2 tone R31 wagon (white over grey) and love the look, and to me, the Stag's have a natural shape to pull off the 2 tone look, staying with the silver bump strip.

I was thinking of R31 "Stormy Glow" in metallic, but how would metallic look with pearl white upper? Mixing metallic and pearl paints like that a bad idea?

How about the metallic grey from the R33's? Would that look OK? I want to stay with Nissan factory paint for ease of colour matching.

Cheers, Greg.

[Stinky Rooster]

just slap a big ol' set of vinyls on it to cover teh damage

FUWLLY HEKTIC BRO

[Topkart R33]

This was my old 33 in the Blue over Gunmetal Grey combination. Needless to say it turned quite a few heads when driving it

[FelixTRX]

Can anybody photoshop a pic for me?? I'm retarded when it comes to graphics. Note my lack of avatar??

Cheers, Greg.

[Tangles]

This was my old 33 in the Blue over Gunmetal Grey combination. Needless to say it turned quite a few heads when driving it

That is my favourite R33 colour...... with big white-spoke wheels they look awesome

funny you say Blue, always had arguments that it is Green.... I say green !!

[Topkart R33]

That is my favourite R33 colour...... with big white-spoke wheels they look awesome

funny you say Blue, always had arguments that it is Green.... I say green !!

You say tomatas...i say tomatos lol. It was a pearl finish so it changed constantly with the light on it. Went from the blue you see, to maybe a slight tinge of green and also hint of purple in certain light. It looked best in dull overcast days or bright mid arvo sun after a wash!!I've never understood how cars I've seen in this colour have been sprayed all the same colour removing the gunmetal??? It just looks odd.... BTW i say BLUE!!

Edited December 18, 2007 by Topkart R33

[FelixTRX]

Ahem.......back on topic fella's!!!! I'm the one in trouble here!

Was just thinking, the silver that's on the bump strip. How would the Stag look with that silver all over the bottom half of the car? Pearl White on top and Metallic Silver on the bottom. With a set of S15 rims. I'm liking the idea but worried it'll look like a big Suzuki Baleno wagon! Somebody PLEASE photochop it for me!!

Cheers, Greg.

[Lil_Bobby_260]

pearl white over a real hot yellow on the bottom. Paint it all the way up to the body line above the door handles, level with the top of the tail lights. Never seen it done but its what i was originally going to paint my ford but couldnt get the paint in time.

mah lil gif sketch (didnt have photoshop) mspaint ftw

[bernardshorty]

white over sky blue for sure but bring the blue nearly all the way up the door .painted my rc drifter this color but its a suby leggo wagon looks f'n mad .

[FelixTRX]

Thanks for the suggestions guys but not my cup of tea. Looking more towards the lightish gun metal grey on the R33's I think.

The pics supplied should show why!

Cheers, Greg.

[Lil_Bobby_260]

"and this was Stagea back when it was a baby - we called it R31 Skyline back then" It was so cute...

So ou are going for something that would still pass for factory as opposed to something that stands out like dogs balls?

Panda stagea?

[Al]

Here is my quick attempt, not really good at this photoshop stuff, but i tried

[FelixTRX]

Thanks Al, but yes, that's WAY too much like Panda for my liking. Needs to be a dark silver/light grey colour, no where as dark as the one you have done.

Right concept though! And you can see why the 2 tone is addictive, yeah??

Cheers, Greg.

[Lil_Bobby_260]

Just a quick one but if you want any more colours let me know. i think having the colour up to the body line looks much classier than just the height of the door protector strip....

[Lil_Bobby_260]

haha how rough is that line!!! i'll tidy it up if you want any ohther colours done bud

[Munkyb0y]

why is there tinsel on your roof? lol.

here's my 5 minutes worth

[FelixTRX]

Munkyboy - That is perfect! I wasn't thinking of a lighter silver than the bump strip but that works so well, in a factory kind of way! What silver did you use? Or it's just a colour from the chart? And it's Christmas! The roof rails were designed to carry tinsel, nothing else!!

Stagecoach - As it is in Hobart, there is only 2 white Stags so being inconspicious is hard enough as it is!! I actually like the yellow/white combo up to the waistline, just not on my car!

And I'm only going up to the bump strip for several reasons. Less prep work has to be done, less paint is needed, 'should' take less time because I'm not worrying about door handles etc. We can't have the car off the road for anymore than 24 hours at a time because of my wife's work (finds out every morning if she's working), so working a smaller area is much easier for the time factor.

Thanks to everybody, but feel free to cut sick on the photochops! This could get interesting!

Cheers, Greg.