Check it out!! PAINTED MX3 finally! chamelon blue!

hgallegos915 · Post by **hgallegos915** » March 4th, 2006, 12:48 pm

Ok so tis is what we did..used flat blue and pink chamelon..was suposed to be pearl but my uncle messed it up(the order) When we were done the hood was not matching the car ew so we sanded it down, resprayed clear coat tiwh chamelon mixture and came out nice. Dude at the paint store told us NOT to mix a flat color with chameleon thjat we needed pink pearl.. uncle missunderstood and well it looks nice to me. In the shade it looks flat blue and reflection i pink

Im VERY happy with results..i still need new rims and a rear lip and maybe a gs wing. New civic headlights arrive this week. I am SO not done with this car. Plans is spray interior with same kind of paint..dash pillars and headliner.

Cost

Materials including paint, primer, clear coat, chamelon mixture, sandpapers, thinner, rags = 80 dllrs

Labor 200 dllrs

Down time 1 week

comments negative postitive all welcome

pics below in the replies because they stopped working here.

XxantwawnxX · Post by **XxantwawnxX** » March 4th, 2006, 1:37 pm

Nothing shows up...

lionpower · Post by **lionpower** » March 4th, 2006, 1:37 pm

the pics dosn´t load at me

hgallegos915 · Post by **hgallegos915** » March 4th, 2006, 2:21 pm

hmm sorry heres the raw link

http://www.geocities.com/c00l.geo/blue1front.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/c00l.geo/blue2chamelon.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/c00l.geo/blue3side.JPG
http://www.geocities.com/c00l.geo/blue4shiny.JPG

http://www.geocities.com/c00l.geo/blue5hood.JPG

following images taken with cell phone

http://www.geocities.com/c00l.geo/blue5juarez.Jpg

http://www.geocities.com/c00l.geo/blue5nightshot.JPG

DavidOS · Post by **DavidOS** » March 4th, 2006, 2:32 pm

worked for me!
looks nice,
just change the wiper colour
and maybe do a headllight swap to projector and your car is complete
good work man:D

hgallegos915 · Post by **hgallegos915** » March 4th, 2006, 2:35 pm

thanks, projectors will be here this week

and im getting stock wipers :/ and um new cowl

93_4Banger · Post by **93_4Banger** » March 4th, 2006, 3:59 pm

loving it you should pm me about the paint and process if your willing that is props good job nice to see it alll one color

Drewation · Post by **Drewation** » March 4th, 2006, 4:44 pm

very nice, i love the pic of that hood. maybe its just the picture but you got to get rid of that rear bumper just doesnt go with the side skirts in my opinion, very nice though

hgallegos915 · Post by **hgallegos915** » March 4th, 2006, 6:19 pm

the paint itself is pretty easy nothing special. All you do is prep it for normal paint, spray flat blue. Get clear coat.. and mix it with 2 tablespoons of chamelon pink powder. The reason why rarely anyone has these paint jobs is because we are told that chameleon does not match with flat coors, that u gotta use a metallic color. This color came out of mistake. I wanted blue with pink pearl. Uncle does not know what pearl is LOL (mexico) and used pink chameleon powder. Next car we are doing will be a strong red with gold chameleon something like pear.

cardomain

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/852014

Mazdaspeed96743 · Post by **Mazdaspeed96743** » March 5th, 2006, 1:26 am

It came out nice.

ovendenk · Post by **ovendenk** » March 5th, 2006, 5:38 pm

great job. always amazed when diy paintjobs come out looking that good. really impressed.

MazdaManiacMx3 · Post by **MazdaManiacMx3** » March 5th, 2006, 6:42 pm

Hey neat color , Did you guys wetsand and buff after the clear the one side pick looks orange peely ? Maybe its just me though, As for the red paint idea we did viper red with HOK gold flake and it looked pretty sweet .
Keep up the good work

As for the rear bumper a easy fix would be to pick up a set of rear mudguards it should blend the kit a little better

Kris

hgallegos915 · Post by **hgallegos915** » March 5th, 2006, 7:23 pm

yeah we did it looks like that i guess its the camera effect

i do need to get one sideskirt better stuck in there so i guess ni gotta respray that skirt.

thelatinpimp · Post by **thelatinpimp** » March 19th, 2006, 8:07 pm

drop it like its hot

BuGS · Post by **BuGS** » March 20th, 2006, 1:38 am

hgallegos915 wrote:the paint itself is pretty easy nothing special. All you do is prep it for normal paint, spray flat blue. Get clear coat.. and mix it with 2 tablespoons of chamelon pink powder. The reason why rarely anyone has these paint jobs is because we are told that chameleon does not match with flat coors, that u gotta use a metallic color. This color came out of mistake. I wanted blue with pink pearl. Uncle does not know what pearl is LOL (mexico) and used pink chameleon powder. Next car we are doing will be a strong red with gold chameleon something like pear.

cardomain

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/852014

I wonder who told you that... I have kinda grown up around body shops and I think the best paint job still is flat white with a green or blue chameleon dust. At night and in the shade it looks just white, then throw it in the sun and BAM! totally different. My uncle has the 92-93 Harley Color Changing paint with Rainbow chameleon dust on his 442 and it is probably the kewlest paint job ever...

Clean ride. Personally don't care for the off purple color that creates but it looks very very clean.