Here is my car now(well, before it was stripped for paint). I am doing the headlight buckets black, like EVERY Iroc should be! My qustion is the hood. My painter had an idea of painting the area where the louvers would be black like on the 82-84 Z28's. Another option would be to just paint the rear part of the louver(small rectangle at the back part of the louver) black and keep the rest of the louver body color. Opinions and ideas?

Also, if anyone is good at Photoshop being able to see the differences would be nice!



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Thanks

Chris

 

I looked at something similar for my z28 blister hood and this was my opinion: don't do anything. Basically between myself and my painter we couldn't figure out a good way to smoothly translate to the different color. It looked wrong every way we tried it. It just doesn't look good. The lines are just lost.

I say paint it solid.

 

I agree. I say paint it a nice solid color and leave it. Once you start adding little things here and there that are different colors it just starts to go all wrong.

 

go body color

 

I'm thinking body color it is, but does anyone have the ability to PS nicely?

 

give me a second...ill get something rough for you..

my photoshop is on another computer but i have a small one on this computer.

 

Alright, thats really crappy but gives you an idea.

 

Black

 

paint the inserts blace so it shows some depth and fills in the void.
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With it painted the body color knowing how the iroc and daytona are supposed to look the inserts just will always look empty and that they are missing something... Imo

 

Black, to go with the buckets and your lower spoiler

 

I'm not going to lie, I was set on blue, but after seeing the black inserts I am kind of liking it!


Thanks for the PS! Can you clena it up just a little?

 

This.

 

you haven't even seen it with the black buckets yet!

 

Paint it black.

 

What do you mean by clean? Just a quick paint over to get an idea. You want me to do the buckets too?

 

Yes, sorry...Meant the buckets as well as they are for sure getting painted. The job you did actually came out pretty good.

Thanks

 

I would paint the back of the insert (the part where it rises) so it looks like the scoop/vent it was ment to be

 

There you go man. Gonna look nice. Real nice.


That might be interesting to see...i'll work on that..

 

That is what the other option was!

I would like to see that too

 

TTT for a PS....

 

Ok, screwed up the paint around the louver slots, but it gives you an idea. Sorry. Don't have enough time on break to do a better job. lol

 

No problem! Thank you VERY much for your help! Here are all 3 together!

Rear most traingles only...




Black inserts




Cowl around the scoops done...

 

My vote goes to just painting the inserts.

 

Just a thought, but seeing how crude the black works, would a coalgrey for the inserts be a better option?

 

Like a stain black.....


Hmmmm


The ONLY downside to that I see is it not matching the buckets and grille(both going gloss)

Options Options!

 

i like this one the best. the black is a bit too intense imo.

 

Since you're going gloss black for the grill and headlight buckets, I'd go with gloss black inserts along with painting the "rear most triangles" black. Pretty sure that is what was meant by the following post.


Personally, I'd paint the inserts and headlight buckets satin black, (same idea as the coal grey PS, less gloss, less effect) but thats just me. I will agree that the grill and splitter (correct term?) being gloss lends itself nicely to the buckets and insets being gloss, so I think your idea would look good as well. Maybe for a subtle contrast to the gloss inserts, paint the triangles a satin or flat black. Might even make the flaps (scoop/vent) appear functional like the ones on the 83' CFI Z28 hoods