Best Colour For An E30 M3??

[Rosc0PColtrane]

I have a cool 1/24 scale M3 model (As close as I'll ever come to owning a real one!!!).I'm gonna have a crack at making it soon. I'm very festidious about these things and what it to look cool.

Bearing in mind it has chrome-ish bbs alloys, what colour would be the best for it?

I intend on actually purchasing a tin of the preferred spray to spray it with!!

Quite like Diamond Schwartz, as that's the colour of my cabby. Seen some nice red examples but am not convinced yet.

If you M3 owners or people with M3 piccies, could post your preference with pics, that would help.

Thanks guys!!!

[billgatese30]

maccau blue

misano red

alpine white

all look very cool

[Rosc0PColtrane]

cool, thanks mate!

I should be able to find pics of the colours then? Maccau blue sounds cool.

[billgatese30]

heres a white one





a maccau blue





and a red one, not sure if its missano, but you get the idea

[maxfield]

I think it's misano.

Heres nogaro silver

[Rosc0PColtrane]

Thanks.

Red loos the better of the three from those pics?

[Rosc0PColtrane]

ah, silver loos good too!

Is there an online resource with the original available colour schemes?

[bazman]

I gotta agree, the red looks best IMHO.

But they are all lush..

[harry_p]

for paiting a model car, using a spraycan of the actual colour, go for a flat colour. the metal particles in the paint are too big to look right on a scale model.

tbh, my prefered colour would be black, but they look pretty FG in every colour.

if i was building a model i'd paint it red, because my m3 is red (zinnobar)

[JimmyC]

M3s can only be white IMO ;)

[Rosc0PColtrane]

Looking at using original paint.... Did consider the metal flake problem....

It does look FG in any colour. Red is swinging me. The only problem is flat colour won't detract from the fact it's a plastic model. I was thinking that Metallic colour would give the correct illusion.

I'd like black but black would hide lots of the detail. Red is looking the best option right now!!!

[hammoj28]

I think macau blue, jet black or silver are the best colours. Red is very nice though.

[Falkster]

I might be iased but I love brilliant red!!

[tobias]

I think macau blue, jet black or silver are the best colours. Red is very nice though.

jet black???? is that an m3 colour??

[billgatese30]

yes, only available on the sport evo........and its a bitch to avoid swirl marks

[hammoj28]

Looks blooming amazing though!! Soooo black compared with diamond.lol.

[gary]

Heres a jet black one



And here is a Lachs silver one

[eamo]

henna red for me!! dont see many of them around in that color.

my old cecotto was macau blue (gorgeous) and my evo 2 was nogaro silver

[Hyperion]

i like red

[Rosc0PColtrane]

YOu like red? Really?

what does henna red look like?

[eamo]

here ya go!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-E30-M3-Henner ... dZViewItem

[zaust]

White in an M3, the only coulor they should come in..

[gazm3]

Macau blue by a long way. For me.

[Hyperion]

YOu like red? Really?

what does henna red look like?

hmmm yeah ... i do.... zinnobar is cool

[matthew_h]

I have a very soft spot for white one but from a purely biased point of view it has to be DB:

[gurps_singh1]

Mat have to say thats a real nice pic of your black m3 but i think white looks a bit better for some reason lol

[matthew_h]

No worries. As I said, I have a real soft spot for white ones and I reckon that all things being equal I would have had a white one over any of the others