matte red paint work

[leeman69]

been toying with matte and satin colors for my e30 for a while now, and i really like the look of a matte red, only really seen it on newer cars though don't no if it would make an older car/classic look as if it had faded paint though. anyone have any ideas or able to photoshop a matte red e30?
any help appreciated

[octanejunkie]

I rekon it'd just look like bloomed old faded paint.
If you're going satin, maybe try a silver, or charcoal grey. Blacks been done to death.
It'd be a lot cheaper to do a satin/matte car. You could even get away with doing it with rattle cans
I sprayed an old Alfa 155 satin black on my drive, and slammed it to the deck. It looked pretty rude

[nickso]

what new car has matte red?

theres a bloke who painted his e30 in some sort of copper and then pissed on it to accelerate the corrrosion to turn it green, looked different to say the least.

[bedumon]

I've never see matte red on any car.....Not sure if it would work well with an old car.

A little while back me and a mate went to visit a guy who wraps cars as we were toying with the idea on another car. He was wrapping a Gallardo at the time in flat black which looked quite menacing. He showed us a matte grey paper he had which looked . If I was to wrap a car I would do it in that colour. Definitely the best paper out the lot we saw.

[leeman69]

it wasn't brand new out of the factory matte but was sprayed instead of a wrap

ive seen matte silver colours too which also look very good

[fah-q]

Okay, its not an E30, but it does go to show that a matt red can look awesome on an old car. Well, i think it looks frickin ace anyhow......





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[fah-q]

Although, the above has been done with rattle cans. The best to do it is to use a red base coat of the shade you want, and then you put matting agents in the laquer. Far better results