My plans for paint... opinions?
 

Ok, I have a 91 Civic Si Hatch in red. I want to do something different with the paint but have it still look very clean and crisp. My brother (who is a huge car buff himself) made a suggestion that I really liked. We talked it over and the outcome of the talk was this.

The car gets painted in a two tone. Red on top and silver on the bottom. There will be a gunmetal silver stripe that seperates the red from the silver. The gunmetal stripe will likely flare into a flame or something near the back. Then the whole thing will be clear coated with a hint of red in it to give the silver a sort of flip-flop red look, so the whole car still "feels" red. Not sure if I want the red to be a metallic or not. Oh, and the side molding is going to be replaced with a paintable molding so that it will be a matching silver with the lower part.

Opinions?

Keep it clean and simple man...all that wild paint ish is FUBAR..if anything how about a yummy candy apple red?

The whole two tone with flames doesen't really make the car clean imo.
I hate red, but if you go with red I like the red Brett has.

There's a few pics over here, take a look

http://www.torontocivics.com/tccforu...0&pagenumber=3

I would give the idea a thumbs down... but thats just my opinion.

yumm candy apple red...more expensive than your average paint but well worth it...

Just cause your car is a '91, doesn't mean the paint scheme should have to be :thumbup:

make it one colour without no gay striped down the middle or any of that stuff :banghead:

i don't know about that man... seems like to much.... less is more man.... i like that red... its not bad.... but i find that your model car seems best in black...thats just me though.. i've seen alot of nice black ones so thats probablywhy i think so.....ither way just try and keep it clean.

For some reason, I can't visualize exactly where the colour demarcation in your plan would be. If there was a photoshop of it, maybe then I could say something one way or the other :P

As it is... if you think it sounds good, then I say do it.

do it how you want to... i think it sounds kinda cool... if you like it i say do it

i tihnk you should paints skulls, naked chicks with psychedlic ish for the background.

do it man.

keep it simple :) it will cost less too, then go buy a b16 :thumbup:

I personally wouldnt do it, i think the stripe into the flames is what will ruin the car. I really like the idea of 2-toning the car, you just gotta make sure to use 2 colors that will go well with each other and find the proper line on the car to divide them. What about going with black on the bottom and red on the top and use a silver pinstripe to divide the 2 colors? I think that would look awesome and it would be different than the ones that people usually do with color on the bottom and black on top.

DONT DO IT.
a stock car with a two tone paint is soooo ghey.

imo if you wanted to do that two tone theme do this....

get a 4 piece wingswest RS kit without the 2 door caps.
cut your factory bumpers and mould the kit into it to give it the ultimate fit. then do some cutom work ie. shaving mouldings antenna emblems, etc.... then paint the top half of the car with black paint and the bottom half red paint and the line seperating them in gunmetal. and to finish it off give it a light gold flake all around the entire paintjob. and clear it.

the best everrrrr....

SILVER and RED doesnt go good together often.

RED AND BLACK is BEST.

Team Rukus knows his ish :p

Jay thats been done too many times though, black on the bottom with red on the top would be different and nice

the color contrast is TOO much... silver and red totally don't go together.

if anyting same basecoat, and just do a two-tone clearcoat... one with a lil bit of flake, one with no flake. I'd wanna see brown metallic plus ghost flames with amber corners and on gold wheels :yummy:

dont do it.. i say stick with one color if u want red and silver please jus paint it red and put silver rims of sumthing.. doon't do two tone

do whatever you want to do... :)

whatever colors you use DONT flare in to flames please