Kong
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These spamming idiots are everywhere; one nonsensical post and then that Ocean's Group advertisment. I think I'm going to go to their website and find an E-mail address or phone number for them and then tell them how I feel about their intrusions.
If you paint it straight pink, rocker panels to roof, it will look like pure unmitigated hell. It will be one big pink blob, like chewing gum under a counter, like a hot-dog rotting in the sun. Its not so much that the pink going to be a problem, its that - as you describe it - will be nothing but pink. You need to find some way to break it up just a little bit with either a complimentary or contrasting color, and its going to take enough of it to pull your eyes to it. Pin Striping is traditionally used to accomplish this, just to add enough color to take the 'blob' effect away. So I would suggest you look very very hard at the body shape and find a way to compliment it. You need to pick the right color too. The easiest way to do this is to take a look at a color wheel. Find your pink (pink doesn't really exist on a color wheel, but find the closest match you can), then look 180-degrees across the wheel for your contrasting color - you can't go wrong.
On Edit: I feel like a fool when these things only occur to me later. If you aren't familiar with a color wheel here is a 1-page writeup on one that should give you an idea how to use one and maybe some ideas on how to pick colors to highlight and enhance your work. Here it is - and no, I'm not trying to sell these people's product.
Color Theory and the Color Wheel
Edit Number 2: I should have told you that pink is sort of odd because its kind of not really a color so much as it is a shade of red. To mix up your own particular color start with pearl white and then add just a very very small amount of KK red to it and mix well until you find the shade you are looking for. Write down what you mix. Then when you go to shoot your car mix up all the paint you will use all at once.
If you paint it straight pink, rocker panels to roof, it will look like pure unmitigated hell. It will be one big pink blob, like chewing gum under a counter, like a hot-dog rotting in the sun. Its not so much that the pink going to be a problem, its that - as you describe it - will be nothing but pink. You need to find some way to break it up just a little bit with either a complimentary or contrasting color, and its going to take enough of it to pull your eyes to it. Pin Striping is traditionally used to accomplish this, just to add enough color to take the 'blob' effect away. So I would suggest you look very very hard at the body shape and find a way to compliment it. You need to pick the right color too. The easiest way to do this is to take a look at a color wheel. Find your pink (pink doesn't really exist on a color wheel, but find the closest match you can), then look 180-degrees across the wheel for your contrasting color - you can't go wrong.
On Edit: I feel like a fool when these things only occur to me later. If you aren't familiar with a color wheel here is a 1-page writeup on one that should give you an idea how to use one and maybe some ideas on how to pick colors to highlight and enhance your work. Here it is - and no, I'm not trying to sell these people's product.
Color Theory and the Color Wheel
Edit Number 2: I should have told you that pink is sort of odd because its kind of not really a color so much as it is a shade of red. To mix up your own particular color start with pearl white and then add just a very very small amount of KK red to it and mix well until you find the shade you are looking for. Write down what you mix. Then when you go to shoot your car mix up all the paint you will use all at once.
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I am about to adopt a baby so not too sad I am excited but car is on back burner for a few. But it will be done hoping by next dec. I will post w/ updates on her.