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Offline stainesy

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rim colour choice. ( with pics)
« on: 10 February 2012, 07:58 »
ok started to polish my rims this week and realised the kurb rash is to deep to polish out on a couple of them so i am going to fill and paint them instead.

have narrowed down a few colours i think look ok.
what do you guys recon looks best?
these are not spot on the perfect colurs as photoshop elements only has a few preset colours but you get the idea.
plus im sh!t at photoshop.

standered silver


black (not to keen myself) and yeah i no its a bad photoshop. had to do them red then darken to black


blue and would do the inside of the spokes white (i think works good with car colour)


bronze  (should be able to find a better bronze in paint)


orange (i think look wicked but not sure if its to much chavy)
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Re: rim colour choice. ( with pics)
« Reply #1 on: 10 February 2012, 08:15 »
Orange!! It's lairy but its banging........ Unless you want more subtle then the bronze I think looks a good contrast


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Re: rim colour choice. ( with pics)
« Reply #2 on: 10 February 2012, 08:50 »
You thought of anthracite its a dark grey kinda colour.

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Re: rim colour choice. ( with pics)
« Reply #3 on: 10 February 2012, 08:55 »
You thought of anthracite its a dark grey kinda colour.

yeah not keen on having wheels same type of colour as the car. i like a contrast. the wheels are actuly that dark grey anthracite colour its only the faces that will be painted.

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Re: rim colour choice. ( with pics)
« Reply #4 on: 10 February 2012, 12:42 »
I'd go for polished silver mate  :wink:

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Re: rim colour choice. ( with pics)
« Reply #5 on: 10 February 2012, 12:56 »
silver, dont suit any other colour imo

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Re: rim colour choice. ( with pics)
« Reply #6 on: 10 February 2012, 14:18 »
silver, dont suit any other colour imo

Why don't it?

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Re: rim colour choice. ( with pics)
« Reply #7 on: 10 February 2012, 15:47 »
this is what i am thinking on the blue.
between the spokes there is like a 5mm to 10mm bit that is dark grey.
im thinking maybe do the inside of the spokes white and the faces baby blue.

this is a really bad photoshop pic but im crap at it but you get what im trying to say  :grin:
or i could do this with any 2 colour combination.


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Re: rim colour choice. ( with pics)
« Reply #8 on: 10 February 2012, 15:58 »
I can see where your going with the photoshop Neil... I'm just unsure whether it will be to much  :undecided:

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Re: rim colour choice. ( with pics)
« Reply #9 on: 10 February 2012, 16:15 »
I got it. What about black faces with orange inner spoke bits?