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Check it out!! PAINTED MX3 finally! chamelon blue!
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 12:48 pm
by hgallegos915
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.
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 1:37 pm
by XxantwawnxX
Nothing shows up...
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 1:37 pm
by lionpower
the pics dosn´t load at me
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 2:21 pm
by hgallegos915
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 2:32 pm
by DavidOS
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
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 2:35 pm
by hgallegos915
thanks, projectors will be here this week
and im getting stock wipers :/ and um new cowl
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 3:59 pm
by 93_4Banger
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
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 4:44 pm
by Drewation
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
Posted: March 4th, 2006, 6:19 pm
by hgallegos915
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
Posted: March 5th, 2006, 1:26 am
by Mazdaspeed96743
It came out nice.
Posted: March 5th, 2006, 5:38 pm
by ovendenk
great job. always amazed when diy paintjobs come out looking that good. really impressed.
Posted: March 5th, 2006, 6:42 pm
by MazdaManiacMx3
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
Posted: March 5th, 2006, 7:23 pm
by hgallegos915
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.
Posted: March 19th, 2006, 8:07 pm
by thelatinpimp
drop it like its hot
Posted: March 20th, 2006, 1:38 am
by BuGS
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.
