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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 09:58 AM
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I am looking into painting my car after we are finished with the build. I want to paint it a satin color, but not black. I tried searching for pics with no hits except black. The colors I have in mind are satin orange or satin viper steel gray. I like the idea of the vsg satin, but I'm not sure how it would look. satin orange looks sick, but I am not so much into the flashy colors. A buddy of mine has a satin trans am which looks very good but I want to do something different than his blue. What colors do you all think would look good satin?? This is his car:





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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 01:54 PM
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Can you post pictures of your friend's car????
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 01:56 PM
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Well his photobucket account is private so I cant even look at it there
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 02:30 PM
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Can't see the pic.......
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 02:33 PM
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I dont know what happened. It was workign fine this morning and now photobucket is saying I have to pay to beable to post any images wtf!?
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 02:40 PM
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There, I used them off an online article about him rather than my photobucket, i dunno why photobucket is fail....look in OP again for pics please
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 02:45 PM
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wow thats different... pretty cool.. ... a dark green satin would look cool too...
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by whatsgrip?
wow thats different... pretty cool.. ... a dark green satin would look cool too...
Here is the satin orange i was talking about. I think it looks sick, but I am not so much into the bright colors. My friend who is into paint says that any pastel color will look very very good satin.







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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 03:09 PM
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^^ that looks cool too... Though a lot of people wont like this "different" thing you want to do, I say try it with the color you want. except white.....lol.... but Orange, Purple, light blue, dark green, or maybe a dark orange
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by whatsgrip?
^^ that looks cool too... Though a lot of people wont like this "different" thing you want to do, I say try it with the color you want. except white.....lol.... but Orange, Purple, light blue, dark green, or maybe a dark orange
Yeah, i was thinking darker orange might look good too, almost like a SOM color. Light blue and dark green may look good too. Some shade of tan would probably look sick satin also
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Get someone to photochop those colors on your car and post them up
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 03:29 PM
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Here is a quick rendition of a dark(ish) metallic satin green. looks pretty good, not sure how it would look on a SS instead of a bird..
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 03:39 PM
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^^^ thats badass Also a dark red, maroon, burgundy would look cool too


like this but satin...



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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 03:46 PM
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Here is my light blue rendition.

My body shop friend says the satin reds just look like faded reds, but other than him saying that I thought a deep red would look killer. I'll do one of those next....
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 04:03 PM
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Here is a dark red one. It was harder to change the color on this but i'm just doing really quick renditions.
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 04:04 PM
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Light blue looks pretty damn slick, maybe a slightly different shade than that one though.
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 04:06 PM
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they all look sweet
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by whatsgrip?
they all look sweet

Yeah, I guess I'll just have to decide for myself out of the ENDLESS options there are

This would look sick satin IMO, almost looks satin on the door.
Amber Gold over Speed Orange...

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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 04:27 PM
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in 2004 and /or 2005, Kawasaki had two satin colors that were both amazing. Candy plasma blue and titanium. Check them out. I am seriously considering painting my 69 Camaro the titanium color.
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Old Nov 10, 2008 | 04:40 PM
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are these the ones youre talking about??




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